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By Rich Heldenfels
Beacon Journal popular culture writer
Published on Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009
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Wicked Lottery. From the folks at PlayhouseSquare in Cleveland:
''A day-of-performance lottery for a limited number of orchestra seats will be held daily for Wicked. Each day, 21/2 hours prior to show time, people who present themselves at the State Theatre box office will have their names placed in a lottery drum and then 30 minutes later, names will be drawn for a limited number of orchestra seats at $25 each, cash only. This lottery is available only in-person at the box office, with a limit of two tickets per person.''
The show runs Nov. 18 to Dec. 13.
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Suiting Up. Jennifer Lopez has filed a $10 million lawsuit against ex-husband Ojani Noa to keep him from releasing a video of their 1997 honeymoon, says People.com.
The site says Lopez's suit is based on a confidentiality agreement Noa made in 2004, years after their 11-month marriage ended. She has already stalled his attempt to write a tell-all memoir.
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Maxims for Our Times. ''The idea that you can do 'more with less' is, in my view, one of the four great lies. . . . What you can do with less, is less.'' — New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, as quoted on the Nieman Journalism Lab Web site.
By the way, the other three lies are ''The check is in the mail,'' ''Of course I'll respect you in the morning'' and ''I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you.''
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Whine Whine Whine. Former beauty queen and gay-marriage opponent Carrie Prejean believes there has been ''a campaign against me to try to silence me.'' She said so during an interview on NBC's Today show to plug her new book.
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Speaking of Gay Marriage . . . There's this from Seth Meyers on last weekend's Saturday Night Live: ''With its defeat in Maine . . . referendums to legalize gay marriage have lost in all 31 states in which it has been put to a popular vote. Though to be fair, I'm pretty sure straight marriage would also lose in a popular vote.''
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Borowitz Reports. Humorist and former Clevelander Andy Borowitz has joked in his online Borowitz Report that Fox News' alarmist reports about government ''death panels'' plans has sent grandmothers fleeing to Canada.
''Across the country, slow-moving caravans of 1980s-era Cadillacs with turn signals blinking were making the torturous journey to the Canadian border, their back seats laden with cats, knitting projects, and bottles of Ensure,'' he said.
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One Vote Against Movies in Smell-O-Rama. According to Usmagazine.com, Twilight star Robert Pattinson said in a recent interview that he rarely changes his clothes.
''These jeans are a few days old,'' he says. ''But the top is probably fresh because it gets to the point where even I can't stand the air around me. I don't know, my personal hygiene — it's so disgusting!''
He blamed it in part on a travel schedule that makes him pare down his wardrobe. But don't hotels provide soap?
Rich Heldenfels writes about popular culture for the Beacon Journal, in the HeldenFiles Online blog at http://heldenfels.ohio.com, on Facebook and on Twitter. He can be reached at 330-996-3582 and rheldenfels@thebeaconjournal.com.
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