By Tony Rizzo
HOLLYWOOD — If you don’t know who Miley Cyrus or “Hanna Montana” is, and you escaped the much-ado-about-nothing scandals over her sexy coming-of-age photos that parents thought were too racy, then you might not understand why she is doing everything she can, as most girls growing up do, to be taken seriously as a young woman. She has been pushing the envelope in her movies and music videos, deliberately tearing the lid off her career. Her new film is called “LOL” (in case you’re not up on computer lingo, that means Laughing Out Loud), the title of the original 2008 French film it is based on. Demi Moore and “Twilight’s” Ashley Green co-star. Miley will follow that with … what else? … a coming-of-age comedy, “So Undercover,” in which she plays … are you ready? … a private investigator hired by the FBI to go undercover in a college sorority.
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Just as Arnold Schwarzenegger leaves office as governor of California, there comes word that “Conan the Barbarian” is coming back. While the original film had Arnold and three great actors, James Earl Jones, Mako and Max Von Sydow, and was shown wide-screen, a big deal in 1982, this remake will star Jason Momoa (no, I never heard of him either), but it will be in 3D. I guess that will have to make up for the lack of star power!
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Jack Allan Allocco, who won five Emmy Awards (out of 16 nominations) for writing songs and music for daytime’s “The Young and The Restless” and “The Bold and The Beautiful,” created a song for a recent episode of “B&B,” “Angels In the Light,” that blew the roof off the show’s website right after it aired. “B&B” won the Best Show Emmy the past two years, and in its 23 years on CBS has never had a fan reaction of this magnitude. “Angels In the Light” was used in a storyline with Susan Flannery (a cancer survivor herself), whose character is told she’s in the fourth stage of cancer. Jack wrote the music for the CD of our children’s book, with Warden Neil’s illustrations, “It’s All About Dorothy,” which is now available at itsallaboutdorothy.com.
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Former “Miami Vice” star Don Johnson, who starred and co-created “Nash Bridges,” won his lawsuit against former “Dancing With the Stars” alum Mark Cuban, his producing partner, Todd Wagner, and Rysher Entertainment, among others, to the tune of $51.7 million for monies owed him from international reruns of the show. As soon as they figure out who owes him the money and get through the appeals process, he might be able to tune out all those people who said he’d never make a comeback in show business — because now he won’t have to!
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I was somewhat perplexed to see a billboard herald the expression HP7, Part 1. I thought, Hewlett-Packard has a movie coming out? Turned out it was an ad for the “Harry Potter: Part 7” movie that just came out. Between “LOL” and “HP7,” I’m beginning to wonder if they aren’t a little too hip for those of us who’ve been out of our teens for a while!
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