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By Rich Heldenfels
Beacon Journal popular culture writer
Published on Wednesday, Jun 04, 2008
Dancin' in Canton. Professional dancer Tony Dovolani, who was teamed with Marissa Jaret Winokur on the most recent season of Dancing With the Stars, will oversee Latin dance workshops at the Fred Astaire dance studio in Canton on Saturday.
The workshops will be from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. These are group sessions. The cost in advance is $50 per person for two hours and $100 for all four hours. At the door, if space is available, the cost is $75 and $150.
To sign up, go to http://fredastairecanton.blogspot.com or call 330-453-4028. You can also get more information at that phone number or by e-mailing infocanton@fredastaire.com.
Besides Winokur, the ballroom-dancing champion has teamed on Dancing with Stacey Keibler, Sara Evans, Leeza Gibbons and Jane Seymour. He was in the movie Shall We Dance? and — according to his MySpace page — found his passion for dance after attending a Fred Astaire academy in his teens.
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Hot Lists. Tina Fey and Jake Gyllenhaal ranked first in the 2008 ''hot 100'' lists by the Web sites AfterEllen.com and AfterElton.com, which talk about lesbians and gays in entertainment.
The lists, voted on by the sites' users, picked most attractive celebs regardless of their sexual orientation; both Fey and Gyllenhaal are straight.
About Fey, AfterEllen.com said, ''Smart, sexy, funny and down-to-earth: That's what lesbians like!'' Gyllenhaal, who also topped the 2007 list, was praised for both his looks and his comfort with gay roles and gay fans.
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More Hotties. Also in the AfterElton Top 10, in descending order: John Barrowman, Luke MacFarlane, Cheyenne Jackson, Neil Patrick Harris, Gale Harold, Van Hansis, Chris Evans, Anderson Cooper and Ryan Reynolds.
Over at AfterEllen.com, Fey was followed by Jennifer Beals, Jill Bennett, Bridget McManus, Leisha Hailey (who had topped the 2007 list), Ellen Page, Sarah Shahi, Sara Ramirez, Kate Moennig and Lena Headey.
Grey's Anatomy star Ramirez, by the way, went from 80th in last year's poll to eighth this year — but not because the season finale of Grey's indicated her character was starting a same-sex relationship. AfterEllen says the voting closed before then but ''we lesbians have excellent gaydar, even for fictional TV characters.''
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Thanks From Tatum. Actress Tatum O'Neal, charged Sunday with buying crack and cocaine, is very grateful to the cops who busted her, said the New York Post.
''I'm still sober!'' she told the Post. ''Just when I was about to change that and wreck my life, the cops came and saved me!''
O'Neal said she had been depressed following the death of her 16-year-old Scottish terrier and ''I couldn't get out of it. I was going to my psychiatrist. I was doing everything I could do. I have the disease of alcoholism. It's lifelong. I treat it every day by going to my 12-step program.''
But, after she slipped, the arrest ''was a shock to me, and a huge wakeup call,'' she told the Post. ''I'm eternally grateful, as sort of grim as the situation was, that I didn't get to do what my disease was telling me to do.''
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Trivia Time. In answer to Sunday's question, Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker was a regular on the CBS sitcom Square Pegs in 1982-83. (She was also in the series Equal Justice and A Year in the Life, but those were dramas and the question asked for the sitcom.)
Annie Stevenor of Akron will receive a prize from the Archive of Leftover DVDs and Ridiculous Promotional Items. Special mention to Mark Reynolds of Norton for pointing out that the Square Pegs theme was done by Akron's own The Waitresses.
The group appeared on-camera in the show's pilot, lip-synching both Square Pegs and I Know What Boys Like. Akron's Devo also guest-starred on the show, in the Muffy's Bat Mitzvah episode.
Rich Heldenfels writes about popular culture for the Beacon Journal and in a blog at http://www.ohio.com. He can be reached at 330-996-3582 and rheldenfels@thebeaconjournal.com.
Dancin' in Canton. Professional dancer Tony Dovolani, who was teamed with Marissa Jaret Winokur on the most recent season of Dancing With the Stars, will oversee Latin dance workshops at the Fred Astaire dance studio in Canton on Saturday.
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