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ROCK OF AGES, currently playing QPAC's Lyric Theatre, will close two weeks earlier than originally planned on December 4.

Two new faces will make their co-hosting debuts and two favorites return in the coming weeks on nationally-syndicated morning talk show 'LIVE! with Kelly.' Joining co-host Kelly Ripa for the first time will be 'Dancing with the Stars' professional dancer and Season 13 finalist DEREK HOUGH (Monday, December 5) and actor JONAH HILL (Tuesday, December 6). Returning to the show are favorites JERRY O'CONNELL (Friday, November 25) and singer JOSH GROBAN (December 7-9).

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL is coming to theaters nationwide on December 21st from Paramount Pictures. The action drama is written by J.J. Abrams, Josh Appelbaum, Tom Cruise, André Nemec and stars Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg and Josh Holloway.

The Little Theatre of Fall River will hold auditions for A Few Good Men on Saturday, November 19th at 9am and Sunday, November 20th at 6:30 pm at the Firebarn located at the corner of Prospect St and Highland Ave. in Fall River, MA.

dick clark productions (dcp) president and executive producer Orly Adelson announced that Christina Aguilera, Justin Bieber, Mary J. Blige, Kelly Clarkson and Maroon 5 will perform at the '2011 American Music Awards(R)'.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced yesterday that Ricky Gervais will be returning as host for the 2012 Golden Globe Awards, according to TVGuide.com. This will be the third consecutive year that Gervais has taken over the hosting duties and follows his very controversial appearance at last year's award's ceremony.

Last year Jimmy Kimmel declared November 17 - National UnFriend Day (NUD). NUD is a holiday dedicated to giving Facebook users the opportunity to 'unfriend' people without any guilt. This annual event was created to weed out people on Facebook whom users wouldn't usually have contact with in their day to day lives, reserving the connection only for true friends.

Showtime Networks Inc. has named Stephen Espinoza as its new Executive Vice President, General Manager, Showtime Sports and Event Programming.

Last year Jimmy Kimmel declared November 17 - National UnFriend Day (NUD). NUD is a holiday dedicated to giving Facebook users the opportunity to 'unfriend' people without any guilt. This annual event was created to weed out people on Facebook whom users wouldn't usually have contact with in their day to day lives, reserving the connection only for true friends.

Following Halloween, Jimmy Kimmel challenged parents to pretend they'd eaten all of their kids' trick or treat candy, video tape each child's reaction to the bad news and then post it to YouTube. The late-night host shared the results in a video -- and the kids were pissed. The video has grown exponentially over the past week, with more than 14 million views on YouTube.

New Line Cinema's film version of the smash hit Broadway musical 'Rock of Ages' is currently filming under the direction of Adam Shankman (HAIRSPRAY). Tom Cruise, who will star as Stacee Jaxx in the film, recently chatted with the LA Times about putiing on his dancing shoes for the film. Cruise told LAT: 'I had started dancing because I was inspired by my wife. She kept saying, 'You've got to do a musical sometime. Kate's a dancer, so she would say, 'Let's go to dance class,' and she would take us and that's how I kind of came up with the idea of Les Grossman doing hip-hop. And then to take it to this level with this? It was really fun.'

Emily Padgett - who rocked out as 'Sherrie' in during ROCK OF AGES run at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre - will return to take over the lead role on Monday, November 7, 2011.

The Second and Vine Players will perform the staged version of the courtroom classic A Few Good Men at the Eagle Theatre, located on 208 Vine St. in Hammonton, at 8pm on November 10, 11, 12, 17, 18 & 19, and 2pm on November 13.

The Little Theatre of Fall River will hold auditions for A Few Good Men on Saturday, November 19th at 9am and Sunday, November 20th at 6:30 pm at the Firebarn located at the corner of Prospect St and Highland Ave. in Fall River, MA.