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LAS VEGAS – Marie Osmond told a Las Vegas Strip audience as she returned to the stage less than two weeks after her son’s apparent suicide that she has relied on her spirituality to cope with his death

“Little did I know I would be relying on my faith, especially as much as I did this past week,” Osmond said before dedicating a song to her 18-year-old son, Michael Bryan, whom she called “my angel.”

Wrapped in a robe with white feathers that resembled an angel’s wings, Osmond genuflected and reached out her right hand as she sang the song amid a starry backdrop.

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Raleigh, N.C. — Reality TV star Kate Gosselin spent more than three hours serving food at Finch’s Restaurant at 401 W. Peace St. Tuesday morning as cameras captured her every move.

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Gosselin’s bodyguard, Steve Neild, quickly ushered WRAL reporter Amanda Lamb out of the diner and said they were shooting a “test” segment for a future program.

He declined to give any other details and told WRAL News to leave.

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Unlike schoolteachers and tax accountants, creative types with personal demons are often able to take what doesn’t kill them and emerge not only stronger, but with a new sort of depth and pathos — and often, a wider audience for the pain they turn into art.

“I Look to You,” Whitney Houston’s first album in seven years, doesn’t pretend to offer the unblemished 21-year-old we met on her smash 1985 debut, but it never truly lets listeners inside the heart and head of the woman she is today.

A number of tracks obliquely reference her well-documented dark times, from the midtempo club jam “Nothin’ but Love” (”I could hold on to pain but that ain’t what my life’s about/ I ain’t blaming nobody if I don’t have my stuff worked out”) to the soaring, shamelessly schmaltzy title track (”every road that I’ve taken/Led to my regret”).

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She smiled and cooed over mentor Clive Davis, calling him “Big Papa” and “Daddy” while the music mogul patted her arm like a proud parent.

The pair was in a side room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel just before the Los Angeles, California, listening session for “I Look to You,” Houston’s first album in seven years, scheduled to be released Sept. 1.

“I just took a break, which sometimes you have to,” said Houston, 45, looking elegant in diamonds and a black Prada dress.

“You have to know when to slow that train down and kind of just sit back and relax for a minute.” Video Watch an interview with Whitney Houston »

This was definitely the old Whitney — pre-troubled marriage to Bobby Brown and pre-comment to Diane Sawyer that “crack is wack.”

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“Hi, shoppers,” she giggled somewhat self-consciously.

The audience of several hundred, stuffed between the music racks at the landmark store, giggled back.

“This is so weird to be playing here. I live in the neighborhood, and this is where I get my CDs and my DVDs!” she said. Then she launched into selections from her sixth studio album, “Amanda Leigh.”

Somewhere out of sight was her new husband, Ryan Adams — the alt-country hero she married in March, after a one-month engagement.

It’s been 10 years since Moore burst onto the pop scene as a lanky, blonde 15-year-old singing and dancing her way through a sweetly suggestive tune called “Candy.” Her musical fare now is more eclectic and stripped down — even featuring vintage instruments such as the clavinet and melodica. Video Watch Moore talk candidly about her new direction »

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Even diehard Trekkers might agree that Capt. James Tiberius Kirk’s best days are behind him, but by going boldly back into the past for “Star Trek” — a “reboot” of the famed series — director J.J. Abrams and crew have done more than prove the point. They’ve presented him with a whole new future.

This exhilarating blockbuster gets under way at warp speed with a prologue that climaxes with Jim’s birth — under fire from angry Romulans — and the heroic self-sacrifice of his father, who goes down with his Starfleet command. Life, death and special effects!

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It was all parody — DiBergi was director Rob Reiner, and cohorts Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer played the heavy-metal musicians in Spinal Tap — but for a fictional band, Spinal Tap has had a long afterlife.

The film gave birth to several catchphrases, including one — “up to 11″ — that’s made it into the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

There are Web sites devoted to the Tap, including at least one, http://tap-albums.s5.com/, that offers a complete discography of the fictional band’s nonexistent albums.

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But it appears something has carried over from that distant era. Something loud, something jumpy, something ready to roar: Blockheads (or to those not familiar with boy band lingo, fans of New Kids on the Block).

As a “look who’s laughing now” to those who thought reuniting for a new album and tour was a ridiculous idea, the group’s past followers came out in droves last year to see Jordan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, Jonathan Knight and Danny Wood give some new choreography a whirl at concert venues around the world.

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NEW YORK – Love sometimes get second chances, but failed TV series rarely do. “Cupid” has become one of those rare exceptions.

ABC is resurrecting the romantic comedy that lasted 14 episodes on its schedule in 1998-99. It premieres Tuesday in a plum 10 p.m. time slot following the network’s biggest hit, “Dancing With the Stars.”

Yet it’s not the same series that its fans may fondly remember, and not only because original stars Jeremy Piven and Paula Marshall are not available this time.

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Reunion plans apparently began after Simon and Garfunkel played three songs together during Simon’s two-night gig at New York’s Beacon Theatre in February.

Tour rehearsals begin in New York in May and the tour will launch in New Zealand around the first week of June, according to the source.

Shows in Australia and possibly Japan will follow, the source said.