NEW YORK - JLO is going on the auction block - for charity.
Starting Thursday, fans of singer-actress-designer Jennifer Lopez can bid on two VIP tickets to the opening of her first U.S. boutique in Chicago.
Her boutique at Marshall Field's on State Street will open Sept. 22. The first JLO boutique opened in Moscow last year.
Winners of the VIP tickets also will get premiere seating at the store's fashion show and the chance to meet Lopez, the Web site Overstock.com announced Wednesday.
Samples from Lopez's first Sweetface fashion show, which closed New York Fashion Week in February, also will be included in the seven-day auction, to benefit the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
The samples include an olive green fur-trimmed poncho, brown knit short-shorts, an off-the-shoulder pompom sweater and 4-inch, studded suede heels.
"Jennifer Lopez is one of the most recognizable celebrities on the planet," said Holly MacDonald-Korth, senior vice president at Overstock.com. "It will be the ultimate experience for fans and fashion lovers."
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http://auctions.overstock.com/jenniferlopez
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NEW YORK (AP) - Mary Tyler Moore will return to the soundstage where "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" was filmed in the 1970s when she guest-stars in three episodes of "That '70s Show."
Moore will play a local newscaster who hires Jackie (Mila Kunis) as her personal assistant. Beloved by her audience, Moore's character isn't so charming when the cameras are off, as Jackie discovers.
The episodes will air next year, the Fox network said Wednesday.
Moore starred as TV reporter Mary Richards on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and as Laura Petrie on "The Dick Van [filtered word] Show" in the 1960s.
The new season of "That '70s Show" will premiere Nov. 2.
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NEW YORK (AP) - John O'Hurley, a popular contestant on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," will host the 29th annual Mrs. America competition Sept. 7 in Palm Springs, Calif.
Helping O'Hurley get the backstage dish on the 51 contestants will be Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, a former candidate on "The Apprentice" and a former Mrs. District of Columbia.
WE will broadcast the competition on Sept. 14, the network announced Wednesday.
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CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) - A little bit of Hollywood is coming to Cape Girardeau.
Producers of "Killshot" have confirmed that Diane Lane and other stars and crew will be in town later this year or in early 2006 to shoot scenes for the movie.
Based on the 1989 novel by Elmore Leonard, "Killshot" will tell the story of a married couple who find themselves in Cape Girardeau while on the run from a pair of hitmen.
Scenes for the film will be shot in late December or early January, said Jerry Jones, executive director of the Missouri Film Commission.
"Cape Girardeau is of huge atmospheric importance to the film," co-producer David Webb said recently from Toronto.
Directors and producers took a five-hour tour of the southeast Missouri town in July. "We loved the whole Mississippi River aspect of it. You can't exactly recreate that," said Webb.
"Killshot," directed by John Madden, also will star Mickey Rourke and Justin Timberlake. It is expected to be released next year.
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