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Rando John Rando has been tapped to direct the upcoming touring production of the tuner adaptation of "A Christmas Story," replacing Warren Carlyle, who originally signed on as helmer-choreographer. Carlyle ("Finian's Rainbow") remains onboard as choreographer. According to reps, he's bowing out of the director role due to the scheduling conflict that arose when "Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway" -- for which he provides musical staging and choreography -- set a fall run, with previews beginning Oct. 25. Rando ("Urinetown," "The Wedding Singer") joins a title that began life at Kansas City Rep in 2009 and went on to play Seattle's 5th Avenue Theater in 2010. The upcoming tour aims to solidify the property's status as a holiday staple, along the lines of "Irving Berlin's White Christmas," a stage tuner that has had a robust regional life as well as a couple of seasonal stints on the Main Stem. The road incarnation, which launches a five-stop tour in Hershey, Pa., on Nov. 8, will star Clarke Hallum, John Bolton and Matthew Lewis, who all appeared in the 5th Avenue staging, along with Gene Weygandt and Rachel Bay Jones. Musical version of the 1983 MGM pic "Christmas Story" has tunes by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and book by Joseph Robinette, based on the writings of Jean Shepherd and on the film. Peter Billingsley, who starred in the movie, produces the tuner along with a team of commercial producers that includes Gerald Goehring, Roy Miller and Michael Mitri. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

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Praising six decades of I Like Lucy

I Like Lucy I Like Lucy opened up six decades ago this month, and our desire to have Lucille Ball has only grown as time passes. To recognition the comedian and her storied history with TV Guide Magazine (she's been in more covers than almost every other star), we asked for her daughter, Lucie Arnaz, 60, to discuss a couple of of her favorite recollections of the period. Arnaz, an actress and singer, has saved her mother and father Desi Arnaz's legacies alive giving scrapbooks and intends to museums and creating suggests that recognition the legendary couple. Presently, she's developing a tribute for the Latin music of I Like Lucy. TV Guide Magazine: This is often a large year for that mother, Lucille Ball. It isn't just I Like Lucy's 60th anniversary, nevertheless the 100th anniversary of her birth. What's it been like?Arnaz: Fabulous! There's been lots of festivities, including within the Hollywood Museum, the Library of Congress as well as the Paley Center for Media. Even Google did a salute became a member of while using Lucy Desi Center for Comedy that's in their hometown, Jamestown, NY. TV Guide Magazine: Let's start immediately. You will not ever came out on I Like Lucy, perhaps you have?Arnaz: My mother was pregnant with me at night inside the pilot - does that count? TV Guide Magazine: Sure! What's your chosen Lucy episode besides the pilot?Arnaz: [Laughs] "Lucy Takes a Cruise to Havana" [11/6/57]. It's a flashback to when Lucy and Ough met in Cuba. My mom and dad use a drum duel in the nightclub that is so sexy. Once I [watch it], I check this out type of amazing volume of love and romance and sexual warmth. There's effective passion for them even though in solid existence, they were close to divorcing. TV Guide Magazine: Did your mother use a favorite episode?Arnaz: She mentioned she'd two. The sweet one when Lucy must tell Ough she's getting a baby ["Lucy Is Enceinte," 12/8/52]. The emotion in the scene got the higher of those and so they started to tear up. They thought they'd have to redo that shot, but everyone round the set mentioned, "No, no, no!" The wild and crazy [favorite episode] was when Lucy dresses because the Full in the Gypsies ["The Operetta," 10/13/52]. She mentioned, "I loved participating in costumes with my teeth all blacked out. I believed I looked hysterical, which i did not have such a lot of fun much like that silly-ass song and looking striking that note." TV Guide Magazine: Did your mother get plenty of enjoyment from doing I Like Lucy?Arnaz: It absolutely was her only pleasure! She and Viv [Vivian Vance], Father and Bill [William Frawley] were built with a lot fun in the office they never required it home. She loved the whole process. TV Guide Magazine: Did she believe pleasure along with her other Tv shows?Arnaz: My mother absolutely loved going to the studio each day and being that Lucy character. Nothing in their existence available her more comfortable, which describes why if the ended and he or she didn't have it any more, I seen her deteriorate psychologically. TV Guide Magazine: Lots of tales, including people in TV Guide Magazine, spoken about how precisely Lucy may have been the finest TV star, but she still will be a typical wife and mother. Truth or spin?Arnaz: Plenty of that came from from pr people, before I Like Lucy hit, she considered herself merely a married lady getting an attractive husband. [Laughs] She didn't prepare perfectly but she loved being in the kitchen area area and achieving all housewife-y. After they moved r / c show to television, she convinced [CBS] to put Desi on as her husband. She thought she only decided to receive an chance to make use of her husband so he wouldn't be on the road constantly. Your show needed off like Seabiscuit and he or she never looked back. TV Guide Magazine: Was your mother anything like her legendary on-screen character?Arnaz: She was opinionated and professorial and not the person that you would expect. People thought she was like Lucy Ricardo. And he or she wasn't whatsoever. TV Guide Magazine: Can you love - and hate - I Like Lucy concurrently?Arnaz: Yes. Clearly I wanted for people moments that we did not have with my mother, just the regular products that other kids ignore. That part was hard. The comfort was wonderful. TV Guide Magazine: If you think about the Lucy shows, exactly why is you most pleased with your mother?Arnaz: Unfathomable talent! She squashed every last bit of humor and fun from everything they gave her. TV Guide Magazine: You labored along with your mother on Here's Lucy for six years. What were most likely probably the most special moments?Arnaz: Once we accustomed to perform a dance number or singing. That wasn't her bailiwick, therefore i might be all excited and he or she would go, "I am unable to do this!In . We'd help each other. Once we first first got it right, we'd be, "Yay! We did a dance together!" It absolutely was a great hooking up experience. TV Guide Magazine: Why you think people continue to be poking fun at Lucy six decades later?Arnaz: The brilliant writing and execution! No stars carried out it appreciate it was funny. They carried out it legitimate and [everyone else] bought inside it. It's the best medicine ever. My mother developed a tonic that never must be restored. The date about it never expires. You can drink it and feel great. TV Guide Magazine: Which female comics today can make your mother laugh?Arnaz: She'd adore Ellen DeGeneres and Debra Playing. After I am watching Debra, she jogs my memory a little of my mother. And Tina Fey! TV Guide Magazine: On her behalf account centenary, give me an idea to say of Lucille Ball, your mother?Arnaz: I miss her - as well as Father - greater than anybody. I merely understand that she'd a great existence and he or she was always grateful to all or any individuals who loved her. Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Now Pitching For the Athletics, No. 5, Jonah Hill

The slimmed-down co-star of (and, if there’s any justice to be found in the awards cosmos, eventual Oscar nominee for) Moneyball climbed the mound in Oakland on Sunday to throw out the first pitch prior to the A’s-Tigers game. And the crowd… goes… wild! Seriously, these guys really dig Hill; see for yourself in the video after the jump, and stick around for more in today’s Buzz Break. [via Trailer Addict] · Simon Cowell is reportedly contemplating an X Factor stage musical for London’s West End. Right. [Deadline] · Alec Baldwin. Roman Polanski. Do we have an untoward obsession with the cult of the asshole celebrity? [Film School Rejects] · You know you’ve always wanted one of those bad-ass Daft Punk helmets. Now, at last, easy instruction to do it yourself! In… four months? [LikeCool] · Set your DVR! Radiohead will be the interview and musical guest Sept. 26 on a special one-hour edition of The Colbert Report. [Cinema Blend] · Lou Reed and Metallica have released a 30-second excerpt from their forthcoming collaborative record, Lulu. It’s… well, it’s destabilizing. (And probably NSFW — or anywhere else, for that matter.) [via The Awl]

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Roush Review: The 2011 Emmys

Jane Lynch If perhaps we did not need to view an Emmy show to understand the Emmy those who win.The 2010 labor of laboriousness, located by a game title but ultimately defeated Jane Lynch (revealing that even this versatile talent could not go above such mediocre material), was fortunately enlivened by a few surprise and/or very deserving wins, particularly when the drama groups started in.Want more Matt Roush? Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!Margo Martindale, the glorious character actress who required FX's Justified to new levels in the second year? Yes! Loved her euphoric acceptance speech: "Sometimes things take some time, however with time comes great appreciation."Talking about which: Kyle Chandler, in the end individuals many years of Friday Evening Lights being overlooked, finally winning within the final lap? And Jason Katims winning for writing the FNL finale? Double yes! (Why made it happen go ahead and take show moving to DirecTV to obtain observed such as this? Just wondering.)For that record, I used to be rooting for Mad Men's Jon Hamm to finally win an Emmy, as well as for Matthew Weiner's instant-classic "The Suitcase" episode of Mad Males to win for writing. But Mad Males might take security in winning, by divine intention, its 4th consecutive Best Drama trophy, as well as the jaded Hollywood audience appeared elated by FNL's come-from-behind victories. So similar to the actual show, no?How satisfying to determine such an array of great dramas get identified by the Emmys this season: Justified, FNL, Mad Males, Boardwalk Empire (for Martin Scorsese's direction from the pilot), Bet on Thrones (for Peter Dinklage's impish scene-stealing), The Great Wife (Julianna Margulies correcting her loss from this past year). No complaints out of this corner. Ditto for PBS' splendid Downton Abbey ruling within the movie-minis segment, trumping HBO's bloated Mildred Pierce (which did earn honors for stars Kate Winslet and Guy Pearce).Even though things were a lot more foreseeable around the comedy side, having a sweep by ABC's Modern Family in each and every category it had been qualified in - lead stars were able to escape, since the entire Family cast submits itself within the supporting area - the night's most endearing and long lasting moment happened throughout the reading through from the lead comedy actress category. Because the nominees were introduced, first Amy Poehler jumped to the stage, then Melissa McCarthy, then all the others inside a apparently automatically and wondrous celebration, holding hands just like a nervous promenade-full court before surprise champion - Mike & Molly's McCarthy (that Bridesmaids exposure most likely did not hurt) - was declared, along with a tiara and spray of roses were presented together with the Emmy. "It's my first and finest pageant ever!" she memorably gushed. I chuckled delightedly through this whole bit - which apparently was Poehler's inspiration, which alone should earn her a unique Emmy.Regarding all of the wins for Modern Family, TV's finest and most warm comedy in a long time, how right for the brilliant Ty Burrell and also the underrated Julie Bowen, who play couple Phil and Claire Dunphy, to both be honored. They are quite they, a part of an amazing ensemble, and hopefully when it's all regulated over, all may have had their moment the main attraction. Burrell's sweet and funny speech in recognition of his late father was the very best of the evening.And although my popularity of The Large Bang Theory's Jim Parsons is never-ending, his second straight win, this time around at the fee for The Office's Steve Carell (who walks from that role empty-handed), felt under satisfying. Still, his and McCarthy's Emmys represent a triumph for that old-fashioned of multi-camera, studio-audience laugh-out-noisy sitcom production, such a long time from favor in prime time."This really is so odd for a lot of reasons," Parsons stated, rather adorably. He wasn't just speaking concerning the surprise win, but about accepting the award from (of people) Charlie Sheen, whose mea culpa gesture of goodwill toward the brand new season of 2 . 5 Males (created by Large Bang's Chuck Lorre) rang so hollow - could it have been intended to be contrite, or ironic? - it had been easily the night's most awkward moment.Not too there wasn't plenty clumsiness for everyone. Like every time the chirpy "EmmyTones" troupe (the worst idea because the year the truth hosts located the show) put their hands up to sing an intro to another montage. This type of cheesy waste of talent like Joel McHale, Zachary Levi and Cobie Smulders. Or whenever the voice-over announcer attempted to vamp with lame jokes throughout a winner's walk towards the podium, compelling virtual vomiting in the appalled Twitter-verse. The presenter banter was typically awful, and also the musical amounts depressingly banal - or annoying, within the situation from the Lonely Planet segment, attempting to pressure some scattershot SNL anarchy around the proceedings. (Granted, Michael Bolton as Jack Sparrow is definitely funny, and "Freak Bill Macy" would be a moment to relish.)The only real sustained comedy segment that really labored was the mockumentary mash-up salute to work, with Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul delivering meth to Creed, Nathan Fillion griping, "All of the black men Sometimes with call me Whitened Castle," Cee Lo Eco-friendly inside a spinning-out-of-control Voice chair, a game title of Thrones Dothraki warrior growling, "I personally don't like how nobody ever rinses the equine heart bowl," and Ashton Kutcher recognizing he's around the wrong set: "I'm wondering in which the half-guy was."Lynch ended up getting off a minumum of one good joke: "Many people are curious why I am a lesbian. ... As well as gentlemen, the cast of Entourage."Score one on her. But watching the Entourage cast go ahead and take stage, people of the faded and today defunct series showing honours to (of other nutritional foods) Downton Abbey, only agreed to be another manifestation of how tone-hard of hearing the 2010 Emmys frequently were. Fortunately, the 2010 voters were a bit more on your ball.Sign up to TV Guide Magazine now!

Jersey Shore's Vinny Heads West to Raise the Stakes on 90210

Vinny Guadagnino Jersey Shore's Vinny Guadagnino is bringing his fist-pumping ways to 90210, but he won't be stopping by America's most famous zip code, TVLine reports. The reality star will appear in a Vegas-set episode of the CW drama where he will play a famous actor who gets involved in a big poker game with Liam (Matt Lanter). Fall Preview: Get scoop on your favorite returning shows The episode will air during November sweeps. 90210 airs on Tuesdays at 8/7c on The CW. Who would you bet on to win: Vinny or Liam?

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Rhianna, Usher To Do At Clintons Concert

FIRST Released: September 13, 2011 3:46 PM EDT La, Calif. -- Rhianna, Usher, The Advantage and Bono is going to be one of the entertainers in a La concert honoring the tenth anniversary of former Leader Bill Clintons foundation. The music artists will work in a Decade of Difference: A Concert Honoring ten years from the William J. Clinton Foundation on March. 15 in the Hollywood Bowl. Other entertainers is going to be introduced later. Clinton stated inside a statement Tuesday that he's proud that a number of the modern most influential entertainers are uniting to boost awareness concerning the work of my foundation. The concert is going to be streamed survive Yahoo.com. Within the last decade, Clintons foundation has searched for to enhance global health, strengthen financial systems worldwide, promote more healthy early years and safeguard the atmosphere. Copyright 2011 by Connected Press. All privileges reserved.These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

National Geographic The Obama White House Through The Lens

Pete Souza is never far behind President Obama. In fact, sometimes hes ahead of him. As the Presidents chief White House photographer, Souza is the Presidents shadow. Now, National Geographic will follow Souza inside the Obama White House aboard Air Force One, backstage at the State of the Union, and into the heart of the West Wing. Its a behind-the-scenes look at the everyday grit of the American presidency and a chance to see what its like to cover the most powerful man in the world, for posterity.

Eddie Murphy to host 2012 Academy awards

It's official! Fast-speaking comedian Eddie Murphy will compere the 2012 Oscar ceremony on 26 Feb.Confirmation originated from the show's producers Brett Ratner and Don Mischer.Don't expect the F-tanks of Beverly Hillsides Cop, though. Both producers the show will stay family-friendly."This person is at Shrek," Ratner told USA Today. "He's done family movies within the last ten years. He's done The famous host oprah.""He's very wise and knows it is greatly of the family kind of show," added Mischer."I'm enormously honoured to become listed on the truly amazing listing of past Academy Award hosts from Hope and Carson to Very, Martin and Goldberg, amongst others,Inch Murphy stated.Hathaway As Catwoman and James Franco located the 2011 show.

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