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Ryan O’Neal was set to join the cast, but his publicist said the actor had not yet fully recovered from recent knee-replacement surgery.

The new cast members will perform their first dance routines on the season premiere on Sept. 19.


Judge rejects Jackson doctor’s witnesses

To hear lawyers for Michael Jackson’s physician tell it, the pop star lived his last days in a state of physical and financial desperation. Hooked on Demerol and starved for sleep, he worried constantly about a comeback attempt that offered him one last chance to pay off his mountain of debt and reclaim a place in the music industry, the lawyers have said.

It’s a portrayal that attorneys for Dr. Conrad Murray say is vital to understanding what led to Jackson’s death, but after a series of court rulings Monday, it is unlikely to be heard by jurors at the doctor’s upcoming involuntary manslaughter trial.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor excluded the testimony of more than a dozen defense witnesses.

The defense had hoped the testimony of these Jackson confidants and other insiders would convince a jury that the singer was so drug-addled and experiencing so much pressure to perform that he accidentally overdosed on an anesthetic.

But the judge said these witnesses, some of whose accounts of Jackson’s drug use went back two decades, would confuse jurors.

“Discussions of these subject matters are sufficiently convoluted, distracting and detracting as to substantially outweigh any probative value whatsoever,” Pastor said.


This is unusual, Jones cancels concert

“Sex Bomb” singer Tom Jones was recovering in a Monaco hospital Sunday, saying “severe dehydration” forced him to cancel a concert in the glamorous principality.

The longtime star, famed for his swivel-hipped appeal and soulful voice, apologized to his fans on his website and emphatically denied British press reports that he had suffered a heart scare that forced him to cancel his Monaco concert Saturday night.

“There are NO heart problems, as has been reported in the press,” the singer’s website stated.

Jones, a 71-year-old Welshman who burst to international fame in 1964 with “It’s Not Unusual” and other hits, blamed his illness on a long successful tour “where many of the shows were in locations that were in the throes of high summer heat.”

Saturday’s canceled show was to have been the finale of his 3-month “Praise & Blame” tour.

A spokesman for the Princess Grace Hospital in Monaco told the Associated Press that Jones was admitted to the hospital Saturday night and was doing well Sunday. There was no word on when Jones would be released.



Carrey posts video love letter

Jim Carrey launched his new website with a bang.

The 49-year-old actor posted a video love letter to “The Help” star Emma Stone on www.jimcarreytrulife.com last week that many online deemed “creepy.” The one-minute, 53-second video shows Carrey speaking into a handheld camera and sincerely professing his love for the 22-year-old actress.

Carrey says Stone is “all the way beautiful. Not just pretty, but smart, and kindhearted” and that “if I were a lot younger, I would marry you.” He goes on to say they would have “chubby little freckle-faced kids.”

The popular video crashed Carrey’s new site early Thursday. Carrey said on Twitter that the video “was a comedy routine.”

Stone has not responded publicly to the video.



Fleetwood Mac could tour, record again

Fleetwood Mac could be back on the road soon.

Lindsey Buckingham said the band is considering another tour and even recording a new album in the near future.

The guitarist, songwriter and producer says there have been “a lot of rumblings” about another Fleetwood Mac tour, but that nothing is on the books yet. Stevie Nicks also has hinted at future Fleetwood Mac concerts. The band reunited for an international tour in 2009.

Buckingham is set to begin a solo tour next month to support his sixth solo album, “Seeds We Sow,” which is set for release Sept. 6.



DAI director heading to Pennsylvania

The executive director of the Duluth Art Institute is leaving for a job at the University of Pennsylvania.

Samantha Gibb Roff will be director of development for the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She’s been with the Duluth Art Institute for nine years.

She said the position gives her the chance to be near family on the East Coast while advancing her career. But she’ll miss Duluth.

“I will miss this place — the great walking trails, the big lake, and the people I’ve grown close to — very much,” Gibb Roff said in a resignation announcement.

Christine King, president of the DAI’s board, wished Gibb Roff well.

“Samantha has done an excellent job moving the DAI forward giving our region an organization of which we can all be very proud,” King said.



Melissa Gilbert files for divorce

Court records show Melissa Gilbert has filed for divorce after 16 years of marriage to fellow actor Bruce Boxleitner.

The former “Little House on the Prairie” star cited irreconcilable differences in her divorce petition.

The filing states the couple separated in January, shortly after their 16th wedding anniversary.

Gilbert served two terms as president of the Screen Actor’s Guild, and Boxleitner has appeared in numerous movies and television series, including “Babylon 5” and both “Tron” films.

The couple has a 15-year-old son together.

Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls on “Little House,” is seeking joint custody of their son and no spousal support from Boxleitner.

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