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Arsenio Hall to host new 'Star Search'
Compiled from Times wires Arsenio Hall has been signed to host CBS's Star Search remake. It will be broadcast live Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8 p.m., starting Jan. 8. The talent competition series is based on the original Star Search that aired from 1983 to 1995 and helped launch the careers of Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Sinbad and Martin Lawrence. CBS has ordered nine episodes, featuring live competition in four categories: adult singer, junior singer, comic and supermodel. Star Search voting will be by "celebrity judges" and viewers at home, a la American Idol. Tent collapses at Winfrey charity eventHigh winds toppled a tent at a Christmas charity event attended by talk show host Oprah Winfrey in South Africa's Eastern Cape, injuring 10. Winfrey escaped injury. Winfrey was outside the tent when it collapsed, a spokesman for the Oprah Winfrey Foundation told the South African Press Association. The foundation had been distributing Christmas gifts in the tent Tuesday to schoolchildren. Winfrey, who publishes a version of her magazine O in South Africa, has been traveling in the country this month doing charity work. 'Firefly' creator still hopeful for showFox may have given up on Firefly, but its creator hasn't. The space-cowboys series was canceled last week. But Joss Whedon, the man behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel as well as Firefly, is hopeful that someone else will want the show. Whedon says he believes Firefly has been "mistreated shamefully" -- by whom, he doesn't specify -- but thanks Fox for giving him a chance to shop the show around. The show ends its run tonight at 8 on Fox with a broadcast of the original two-hour pilot that never aired. Three other episodes have finished shooting and will be completed, but their fate remains unclear. India.Arie to performIndia.Arie, who was nominated for seven Grammy Awards last year, will perform May 17 at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center in Tampa. Tickets ($19-$45) go on sale at noon Dec. 30 at the box office (813) 229-7827 or Ticketmaster, (813) 287-8844 or (727) 898-2100. Fonda visits IsraelJane Fonda visited Israelis wounded in suicide bomb attacks and met with Israeli peace activists Thursday in Jerusalem. The 64-year-old actor and activist is on a weeklong trip to the region and plans to attend meetings of Israeli and Palestinian women organized by a global movement to stop violence against women. The movement, called V-Day, was inspired by the off-Broadway hit The Vagina Monologues and its playwright, Eve Ensler, who is also in Israel.
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