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'Thank goodness there are no MPAA ratings for the live theater. A new stage musical about the San Fernando Valley's porn industry is currently in the development phase. The production is a partnership between New York's experimental group the Civilians and L.A.'s Center Theatre Group. The still-untitled show 'will explore the real-life stories of the people who work in California's pornography industry,' according to CTG.'...

'Thank goodness there are no MPAA ratings for the live theater. A new stage musical about the San Fernando Valley's porn industry is currently in the development phase. The production is a partnership between New York's experimental group the Civilians and L.A.'s Center Theatre Group. The still-untitled show 'will explore the real-life stories of the people who work in California's pornography industry,' according to CTG.'...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In a highly unusual move, Paramount will open its big summer movie 'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra' on Friday without screening it beforehand for critics or other media.

The Deep Dish Theater Company will open its 2009-2010 season with Summer and Smoke, Tennessee Williams' stirring drama of romantic yearning. Directed by Deep Dish Resident director Tony Lea, the play will run from August 28 to September 19 at the company's home in Chapel Hill's University Mall.

Beavercreek Community Theatre will hold open auditions for 'The Dixie Swim Club' at 7 p.m. Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 at the theater, located within the the Lofino Adult Enrichment and Cultural Arts Center at 3868 Dayton-Xenia Road in Beavercreek.

Authors struggling to hit it big on the publishing scene find that writing other people's books can open the door to financial freedom.

Author has drawn on his own experience of press controversy, he revealsIan McEwan has revealed that his next novel will draw on his own experience of media controversy. The protagonist is a Nobel prize-winning physicist who faces media attacks after he suggests that men outnumber women at the top of his profession because of inherent differences in their brains, rather than any gender discrimination.McEwan found himself under a similar kind of fire last summer, besieged by the media after he told an Italian newspaper that he 'despise[d] Islamism, because it wants to create a society that I detest'. It prompted a wave of articles picking over his words including a piece in the Independent headlined 'McEwan faces backlash over press interview'.'I said something like I thought there was something morally abhorrent about Islamism and I opened the Independent the next day and it has me attacking Islam. And it's deeply dishonest,' McEwan told the Eastern Daily Press yesterday, in an intervie

TV News: NBA announces 2009-10 schedule -- The 2009-10 NBA season will open Tuesday, Oct. 27 with two games on TNT.

Paramount has decided not to screen 'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra' for critics before it opens in theaters Friday.

Seacoast Repertory Theatre (the Rep) is holding open auditions for our upcoming production of Lend Me a Tenor. This madcap, screwball comedy is guaranteed to leave you teary-eyed with laughter. Mishaps and mistaken identities abound in this furiously paced comedic farce when the great Italian tenor (ll Stupendo to his fans) is scheduled to play Othello for one night only.