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There's this great line in the movie "Postcards from the Edge" when Meryl Streep, playing a famous actress, says of she and her movie star mom (Shirley MacLaine), "We're designed more for public than for private."
The would seem to be the case for the Osmonds, a showbiz family mourning the loss of their father, George, who died Tuesday at the age of 90. Donny and Marie Osmond flew from Los Angeles to Utah with "Entertainment Tonight" ON THE PLANE! So ET was able to break the news that the family will still appear on this Friday's episode of "Oprah" as planned. The show will tape on Thursday in Chicago. "Dancing With the Stars" handled the situation well Tuesday night in a telecast that opened telling viewers what had happened and sharing right away that Marie was safe from elimination. Marie's dancing partner, Jonathan Roberts, told the audience that "Marie is going to be fine. She is with her family right now. It is going to be a rough week. She had called her dad [Monday] afternoon and told him that our quickstep was dedicated to him. It was a good way to say goodbye."
Marie is one of five contestants remaining on the popular ABC show which is having its most competitive season yet.

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Meanwhile, Jane Seymour who was voted off "Dancing With the Stars" last night. The 56-year-old actress had suffered the loss of her mother last month then had her home threatened by the Malibu fires and had to be hospitalized last week with food poisoning! So maybe this comes as a relief! Seymour handled being voted off with grace and class and will be well-remembered for her efforts.
"It was so worth doing this," Jane told host Tom Bergeron: "This has just been an unbelievable dream. I am kind of teary about it because I had the best time of my life...The biggest thank you of all has to be to the fans, because they have been unbelievable."

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The writers strike begins its third day today. On Tuesday, "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria handed out pizzas to strikers who wondered why if she was supportive of them, why she continued to shoot scenes for the show. Longoria said "We are done and we'll be on the lines supporting you."
The show is wrapping its 10th episode of the season and that will be all for their creatively resurgent season four if the strike is not settled. Marching in picket lines Tuesday were "Old Christine" co-stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Wanda Sykes, Screen Actors Guild board member Valerie Harper, and the casts of CBS' "The Big Bang Theory" and NBC's "ER," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Ellen DeGeneres resumed taping of her daytime show after going dark on Monday in support of the writers. She said during the taping: "I love my writers. In honor of them today, I'm not going to do a monologue. I support them and hope that they get everything they're asking for. ... In the meantime, people have traveled across the country. ... I want to do everything I can to make your trip enjoyable and give you a show."

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And finally this morning, strike or no strike, we do have an episode of AS BRITNEY'S WORLD TURNS: It's been one of those good news-bad news weeks for our pop wreck, Britney Spears. Her new CD debuted at number one on the Billboard sales charts but on Tuesday, she was ordered by a judge to immediately pay $120,000 for ex-husband Kevin Federline's legal bills from their custody battle.
L.A. Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon noted in his ruling the "disparity between the parties income" and that "the vast majority of the ... litigation deals with [Spears's] conduct."
It was revealed in court papers last week that Federline grossed $7,436 in 2006 after business expenses. Britney earns approximately $737,000 per month.