BUZZ.Byline: - Staff and Wire Services PERFECT FOR BOW TIES: Tucker Carlson of MSNBC MSNBC Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company and talk-show host Jerry Springer will be among the celebrities competing on the third season of ABC's ``Dancing With the Stars Dancing with the Stars is the name for a number of international television series based on the format of the British series Strictly Come Dancing. Nevertheless, not all the international versions share this title. .'' The new season of the show -- which pairs 11 competitors of sometimes dubious celebrity and varying skill with professional dancer-partners -- premieres Sept. 12, the network announced Monday. Also heading to the dance floor: Vivica A. Fox, Harry Hamlin, Joe Lawrence, Mario Lopez, Sara Evans, Willa Ford, Monique Coleman, former beauty queen Shanna Moakler and three-time Super Bowl champion Emmitt Smith. Hamlin's wife, Lisa Rinna, competed last season. This season, the celebrity and professional dance pairs will perform choreographed Latin and traditional ballroom routines to popular live music. Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba Carrie Ann Inaba (born January 5, 1968) is an American dancer, choreographer, actress, and singer. Biography Inaba was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her ethnic background is Japanese, Chinese and Irish. She is the younger of two children. will return to judge the performances, ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. said. D'OH!: Americans are more familiar with the Seven Dwarfs, the Three Stooges and Homer Simpson than the news of the day, world leaders or classic literature, according to a new national poll of 1,213 adults commissioned by the producers of ``Gold Rush,'' an interactive reality game focused on pop culture. When asked to name two of Snow White's seven dwarfs and two of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices, 77 percent of Americans polled were able to identify two dwarfs, while only 24 percent could name two Supreme Court justices. When knowledge of classic literature was compared to popular animated series, 60 percent of poll respondents were able to identify Homer as the father of Bart Simpson, while only 21 percent could name one of Homer's epic Greek poems. Knowledge of government did not fare much better, with 73 percent of those polled able to name all three of the Three Stooges, while only 42 percent could name the three branches of government. ``Gold Rush'' will premiere on AOL.com on Sept. 13, with the first televised clue being broadcast Sept. 14 on CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. . For more information on the game, log on to: www.aol (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. .com/goldrush. A SUPERSTAR IN HIS OWN RIGHT Jack Black, left, performs the role of King Herod in a production of ``Jesus Christ Superstar'' at the Ricardo Montalban Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday. ROAST ME UP, SCOTTY William Shatner, aka Capt. Kirk on the long-running ``Star Trek'' sci-fi series, poses for photographers on the red carpet before Comedy Central's ``Roast of William Shatner,'' Sunday in Los Angeles. BOY MEETS WORK: With a city-issued broom in his hand, Boy George started his court-ordered community service early Monday, sweeping leaves and trash off the sidewalks of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . It took less than an hour for the former Culture Club frontman front·man n. 1. also front man A man who serves as a nominal leader but who lacks real authority. 2. Music A leading singer with a group. to get into a spat with the media. ``You think you're better than me?'' he yelled. ``Go home. Let me do my community service.'' Boy George took to the streets of Manhattan as a Department of Sanitation worker wearing an orange vest, dark capri pants, shoes without socks, and without the wild makeup and androgynous an·drog·y·nous adj. 1. Biology Having both female and male characteristics; hermaphroditic. 2. Being neither distinguishably masculine nor feminine, as in dress, appearance, or behavior. style that made him so recognizable as the '80s icon who sang ``Karma karma or karman (kär`mə, kär`mən), [Skt.,=action, work, or ritual], basic concept common to Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Chameleon'' and ``Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?'' ``This is supposed to be making me humble. Let me do this,'' he said. ``I just want to do my job.'' The singer, born George O'Dowd, 45, was ordered to spend five days working for the Department of Sanitation after pleading guilty to falsely reporting a burglary at his lower Manhattan apartment. Responding officers found cocaine instead. COBURN BEQUEST: The estate of actor James Coburn has given 11 Tibetan and Nepalese objects to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California, located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. , the museum announced Monday. The bequest from the James and Paula Coburn Foundation includes a Tibetan bronze of eighth-century Buddhist teacher Padmasambhava, a collection of religious paintings called thangkas and four Nepalese opaque watercolor portraits. The museum said the works fill important gaps in its Asian collection. Coburn, who appeared in scores of TV shows and movies and won a supporting actor Oscar for ``Affliction,'' was a longtime supporter of LACMA LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA Los Angeles County Medical Association LACMA Latin American and Caribbean Movers Association and previously donated pieces from South Asia and the Himalayas. CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- color) no caption (Jack Black) Matt Sayles/Associated Press (2 -- color) no caption (William Shatner) Rene Macur/Associated Press (3 -- color) no caption (The seven dwarfs) (4 -- color) no caption (Boy George) Diane Bondareff/Associated Press |
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