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• Tom Cruise joins the long list of celebrities at war with the paparazzi. After photogs followed Katie Holmes’ impregnator to the Scientology Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles, a security guard whipped out a camera to snap pics of the paps “for the safety of … parishioners.” Then, depending on who you believe, the guard made a citizen’s arrest when one of the photogs jumped through his passenger window while idling at a stop light. [The Scoop]
• Another season of Lizzie Grubman’s PoweR Girls on MTV? That’s fine by us, so long as it’s not aired back-to-back with Seventeen’s Miss Seventeen. We can only take so much back stabbing at once. [Gawker]
• A year after going public with their romance, Survivor host Jeff Probst and Survivor: Vanuatu contestant Julie Berry are still going strong as a twosome. Meanwhile, Probst isn’t sure he’ll be renewing his contract when it expires at the end of the 12th season. World travel just isn’t as much fun with a camera crew in tow. [AP]
• On the set of Twins, dumb blonde-playing Melanie Griffith is having trouble remembering her lines supposedly due to last minute script changes, not the fact that she’s, uh, a dumb blonde. [The Scoop]
• Victoria’s Secret only caters to women, not men. But they’ll have to check and get back to you on that. [Page Six]
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Comedian. Gordon Douglass, Eicher Arts Center, Tom Grater Memorial Park, Ephrata, 2 p.m.; free. Call 738-3084.
Concert. Gap Male Chorus, Quarryville Presbyterian Retirement Community, 625 Robert Fulton Highway, 6:15 p.m.; free. Call 385-3656.
Concert. Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, "Audience Requests," Fulton Opera House, 12 N. Prince St., 3 p.m.; $23-$58. Call 397-7425.
Concert. Hiu-Wah Au, Zug Recital Hall, Elizabethtown College, 7:30 p.m.; free. Call 361-1587.
Lancaster Scrabble Club. Willow Valley Manor North, Willow Street Pike, 6:30 p.m.; free. Call 394-6059.
Chess club. All ages and skills welcome, Milanof-Schock Library, 1184 Anderson Ferry Road, Mount Joy, 6-8 p.m.; free. Call 653-1510.
Scottish country dance. Manheim Train Station, 210 S. Charlotte St., 7-9 p.m.; $3. Call 653-1397.
Film and discussion. "Citizen Kane," Lititz Public Library, 651 Kissel Hill Road, noon; free. Call 626-2255.
Concert. Percussion Ensemble, Baugher Student Center, Elizabethtown College, 7:30 p.m.; free. Call 361-1587.
Square dance. GEARS Community Center, 70 S. Poplar St., Elizabethtown, 1-2 p.m.; $1. Call 426-3139.
Country dance. All ages, the Barn, Ridge Run Campground, 867 Schwanger Road, Elizabethtown, 7:15-10:30 p.m.; $5. Call 278-0589.
Art lecture. Terence E. Smith, "Contemporary Art in the Conditions of Contemporaneity," Stager Hall, Franklin & Marshall College, 4:30 p.m.; free. Call 358-7193.
Concert. Joey Welz, Lititz Public Library, 651 Kissel Hill Road, 7 p.m.; free. Call 626-2255.
Concert. Simple Gifts, Conestoga Valley High School, 2110 Horseshoe Road, 7 p.m.; $3-$5. Call 397-5231.
World dance. Mulberry Art Studios, 21 N. Mulberry St., 7:30-9:30 p.m.; $2-$6. Call 392-8251.
Jam session with All-Star Jug Band. Akron United Zion Church, 31 S. 10th St., 5-8 p.m.; free. Call 314-7058.
Concert. Brett Rush, Solanco High School, 585 Solanco Road, Quarryville, 7 p.m.; offering. Call 786-2151.
Sketch-comedy show. Spring Radio Theater, Bube's Brewery, 102 N. Market St., Mount Joy, 8 p.m.; $5. Call 653-2160.
Concert. Steve Goss, Jim Brady and Sarah Goldbloom, Chillin Grounds Coffee House, Lancaster County Bible Church, 2392 Mount Joy Road, Manheim, 8 p.m.; $4. Call 653-6266.

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M arlee Matlin has been preparing her entire life for “Dancing With the Stars.”
“I’m always up for a challenge. It’s what my life has been about,” the actress said in a recent interview conducted via e-mail.
“I wouldn’t be where I am today if I didn’t have the drive to overcome the barriers that I’ve encountered in my life. This show is just an extension of my desire to never let any barriers get in my way.”
The Academy Award-winning actress is having a busy month. In addition to the ABC dance competition, Matlin also stars as Laura Miller in the Hallmark film “Sweet Nothing in My Ear” (Sunday at 9 p.m. on WBZ, Ch. 4). Laura and her husband Dan (Jeff Daniels) struggle to decide whether to give their deaf son cochlear implants.
“It’s a story in which the debate over cochlear implants serves as a metaphor for the communication barriers we all face whether we are deaf or hearing,” said Matlin, who lost her hearing when she was 18 months old. “I found it one of the few (projects) that featured deaf characters that were fully fleshed out and didn’t treat deafness as a device to create drama. It also got the facts right and presented the cochlear implant debate from both sides without advocating either. I loved that.”
The implant issue has been divisive in the deaf community. Where does Matlin stand?
“I don’t think it would be responsible of me to put out an opinion of a medical procedure that is so controversial. . . . The controversy comes about because for so many years deaf people have felt repressed and discriminated against and viewed as merely hearing-deficient people when there is a rich culture and language there within the deaf community.
“When a technology comes along that promises to cure deafness, it only serves to reinforce the view that deaf people are handicapped when, in reality, they have productive lives. A cochlear implant is a decision that should be left to the family or the individual and when doctors or speech advocates get involved, it creates controversy. No one should ever tell another person how to live their lives.”

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