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How can we miss you if you won’t go away?

Despite having concluded her well-documented, three-year “farewell” tour, aging plastic surgery addict Cher is in discussions with Caesars Palace to take over the Coliseum stage once Celine Dion concludes her lengthy run there. Cher will reportedly make $60 million in the deal.

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Of course, if Caesars management is smart, they’ll start Cher’s run a day early, and put her on the stage with Dion without informing either one of them they’ll have to share the spotlight. Maybe snatch up Barbra Streisand as well. Throw these three on stage together unannounced, call it the Diva Trifecta Extravaganza, and let them jostle for position throughout the show. Babs would have the edge with her perfectly manicured, tiger-lady nails, but both Cher and Dion can throw a mean elbow, so the combatants would be fairly evenly matched.

Then, just as the trio has finally achieved equilibrium and begun singing the grand finale, “My Heart Would Go On If I Could Turn Back Time to the Way We Were,” management lets loose all of Sigfried & Roy’s white tigers onto the stage (hey, they’re not working; they need something to do) with zero supervision.

That would be the best Vegas show ever.

Kind of a drag…

The Brits are bringing a new reality TV show to the airwaves…and it’s a doozy. They’re taking members of various defunct boy bands…and making them into a girl band.

(Yes, they’ll be shaving first.)

Don’t bother wondering who the guys are…not unless you’re familiar with groups like 911, Phixx, and Scooch (presumably, their success didn’t actually make it out of the UK). But if the show’s a hit, it’s a given that someone in the US will try to reproduce it here…and when that happens, can’t you already imagine Nick Lachey in a tight-fitting number, belting out “Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves”…?

“The Parent Trap:” A white trash remake

Oh, those rascally Covington twins! They must be Lindsay Lohan fans, as they recently pulled off a caper cribbed straight from the script of the teenage drama queen’s star-making gem, “The Parent Trap.” Seems Rocky got himself into a bit of a fender-bender while driving Bucky’s pickup truck, which wouldn’t have been such a problem were it not for Rocky’s pesky suspended license and DUI citations. Thus, while the police were en route to the scene of the accident, Rocky phoned identical twin brother Bucky (he of the spotless driving record), and pulled a wacky switcheroo.

It all worked out just fine, until the twins’ co-conspirator in the shamockery, one Ryan Roller, confessed to his father–and subsequently the police–what had transpired. Of course, Roller’s courtroom testimony against the twins turned out to be less than optimally effective, since he incorrectly identified Bucky as the driver of the offending vehicle. All charges were dismissed, leaving both twins free to forever taint your memories of a dozen classic pop songs on “American Idol.”

Hey, you name your kids Bucky and Rocky and buy them pickup trucks, you gotta expect trouble of some kind. Now will someone please get these inbred redneck halfwits off my TV screen and whisk them back to the run-down doublewide from whence they came?

In no way to be mistaken for an “American Idol” rip-off…

…NBC has announced that, as part of its summer replacement series, it will include a show called “America’s Got Talent.”

The show will, according to the network’s press release, “bring the hottest performers from across the country to TV audiences in a new talent competition series that allows viewers to determine who will walk away with a $1 million cash prize. The series features a colorful array of hopeful future stars who possess widely varying levels of talent. Singers, dancers, comedic performers and unique novelty acts of all ages will have a chance to strut and perform in front of a panel of celebrity judges who will determine which acts advance to the final rounds.”

And just in case you’re cynical, may we just say that it is total and utter coincidence that the show is produced by Simon Cowell.

His Royal Badness keeps his credibility

Prince is apparently not going to make an appearance on “American Idol.” Apparently, folks at his label tried to get him to appear on the show in order to continue the promotional machine for his latest disc, 3121. The show’s producer, Nigel Lythgoe, sneered, “He did not want to talk with the kids and did not have the time.”

Get real, guy. Are you really surprised…? This is Prince. This is a guy who’s recorded albums and filmed videos and, instead of releasing them, let alone turning them in to his label, he just puts them in a vault. He does what he wants to do, when he wants to do it…like when he did “Muppets Tonight.” If he did “American Idol,” it’d be because it amused him…not because his label thought it was a good idea.

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