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Impressionism, a new play starring Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen, is pushing its Broadway premiere back 12 days, from March 12 to March 24.Producer Bill Haber said, 'We did...

BBC One costume drama Lark Rise to Candleford is to return for a third run next year, it is announced.

After sharing the cover of her magazine with her slimmer self a couple months back, Oprah Winfrey is for the first time sharing it with somebody else: first lady Michelle Obama.

The British press are appalled by Barack Obama's present of 25 DVDs for Gordon Brown. But could there be a message in the president's selection?Well, what would you buy Gordon Brown? He's not a man known for pleasure - rather as the sort to take an afternoon's summer holiday before heading straight back to work, so it must be hard. But Barack Obama can't have predicted the scornful response of the Daily Mail when he decided to pick Gordon up a few DVDs.In return for a pen holder carved from the timbers of the sister ship of the one the White House desk is made from and a first edition of a seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill, the Mail is appalled that 'Barack Obama, the leader of the world's richest country' gave Brown a box set of 25 DVDs selected by the American Film Institute. These include Raging Bull, Casablanca, Psycho and The Graduate. It is, the Mail says, 'a gift about as exciting as a pair of socks'.Yet another example of the British press's apparent mission to feel

'Seinfeld' isn't coming back, but its stars will be together again this fall on HBO - on show creator Larry David's HBO venture 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.'

It looks like 'Heroes' will be back for a fourth season.

Robin Williams has halted his current one-man standup tour in order to undergo heart surgery, his spokeswoman has said.The Oscar-winner, 57, had been experiencing shortness of breath, and previously called off four shows in Florida earlier this week. He will undergo surgery for an aortic valve replacement and hopes to return to the comedy circuit in the autumn.Williams said via his website that he had been 'touched by everyone's support and well wishes'. He added: 'This tour has been amazing fun and I can't wait to get back out on the road after a little tune-up.'The comic, who won a best supporting actor Oscar for his role in 1997's Good Will Hunting and has three other Academy Award nominations to his name, has been on tour in the US since September last year with his 80-date, sellout Weapons of Self-Destruction show.He will next be seen in cinemas later this year in Battle of the Smithsonian, the sequel to the Ben Stiller comedy Night at the Museum. Williams will reprise his role as

Actress Pamela Anderson wiggled down the catwalk to a whooping audience on Friday and Vivienne Westwood told fashionistas to fight economic crisis by wearing a back-to-front shirt....

GOOD THING Rihanna is allegedly back with Chris Brown.She can bake him a cake with a file in it.

American Idol 8 has its finalists, and for the first time, there are 13 finalists, because if there's anything the world needs, it's another week of American Idol. Half of the wild card performers made it through: Megan Joy Corkrey, Anoop Desai, Matt Giraud, and Jasmine Murray.The show ran late in order to reveal its big twist; with Matt and Anoop left, Anoop thought he was going home once Simon announced that Matt was through. But Simon said, 'We decided, recently, we're going to make this a top 13.'Megan had to comfort Tatiana instead of celebrating, and Tatiana and her brand-new accent wandered over in front of the judges' table to cry. Paula Abdul may have delivered the most backhanded and awesome insult of her judging career, as she told Tatiana, 'It's not just going to be singing for you, you're going to be an actress, too.' In other words: bye, bye, faker. Before she disappeared for good (although I'd guess she'll be back in the audience during the finale or something, just