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Video: Harry Connick Jr. Duets with His Daughter

3 December 2008 9:55 AM, PST

Singer Harry Connick Jr.'s 11-year-old daughter, Kate, made her national singing debut on NBC's Today show Wednesday, joining her dad on the holiday classic, "Winter Wonderland." Connick, who has two other daughters, Georgia, 12, and Charlotte, 6, with wife Jill Goodacre, beamed as he watched his middle child perform. Kate's surprisingly natural, relaxed-sounding voice – the opposite of so many young singers who try to belt like Mariah, or whose voices are touched up with special effects in the studio – is featured on Connick's new CD, What a Night! A Christmas Album. Working with his daughter "brought back some nice memories," Connick says on his Web site,

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Dancing Sets Date for Spring Fling

3 December 2008 10:59 AM, PST

Brooke Burke's moment in the spotlight just got upgraded from 15 minutes to three months—the time until Dancing With the Stars' newest batch of celebs takes to the parquet. ABC announced this morning that the eighth season of the reality-show giant will (cross) kick off March 9 with a two-hour special premiere. Unlike this past season, where two couples were unceremoniously given the boot during the first week of competition, the upcoming season will allow the would-be eliminated dancers to double their screen time, with each couple performing for two weeks before the first elimination takes place. Of course, (more)

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Video: iCarly Cast Dishes on Fan Reactions and More

3 December 2008 12:09 PM, PST

The hotter-than-hot Nickelodeon show iCarly has a large tween following, so Young Hollywood and TVGuide.com wanted to find out what kind of questions fans have for the stars of the series. Also, watch as the cast, including Miranda Cosgrove (Carly), Jennette McCurdy (Sam) and Nathan Kress (Freddie), debate over which one of them is the most important member of the Web show their characters produce.

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Johnny Depp Set For The Hand Of Dante

2 December 2008 10:31 PM, PST

Johnny Depp has snapped up, via his production company Infinitum Nihil, the rights to Nick Tosches’ novel, In The Hand Of Dante, with a view to definitely producing and perhaps starring.The plot of Tosches’ book makes it sound like this could be a relatively low-key, arthouse type project for (more)

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Review | Stark Relief: Yen Tan's "Ciao"

3 December 2008 6:49 AM, PST

by Eric Hynes (December 2, 2008) [An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.]

During a time when American independent cinema either grunts elliptically under moody skies or chatters banally cross-legged on the living room floor, the purposeful, probing dialogue in Yen Tan's "Ciao" feels like a throwback to an entirely (more)

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It Specks For Itself

2 December 2008 10:39 PM, PST

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