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VIDEO: John Bolger: From ONE LIFE TO LIVE to "Dirty Dancing"
Bolger appears in "Dirty Dancing" with a very strong cast that includes several Chicago actors and dancers.

Corbin Bernsen relishes every role
"Very early on I embraced the journey of discovering all of it. I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall and the next time I'm building a palace."

Check out zoobody.com
Zoobody's classes in acting, auditioning, marketing, resume preparation and location managing use professionals founder Dan Faiman has met in Los Angeles.

"We're giving these huge high-level teachers out here in Hollywood to people in Connecticut so they can put the credit on their resumes. They're getting actual Emmy Award-winning people they can put on their resume."

Faiman notes the benefits. Beth Maitland (Traci, THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS) is one of the actors who teaches acting on the site. "If you took their class out here it would cost at least $350. On the site it's $40," says Faiman. "They review your headshot, send you monologues, you upload videos for training, they give you notes, and then later, they pass you on to casting directors."

Presidential campaigns trying to appeal to Florida's diverse Hispanic population
Telemundo soap opera star Katie Barberi joined Sen. Joe Lieberman on stage at Viva Broward last Sunday following salsa and cumbia shows. The two praised John McCain's experience to the Latino crowd at the Pompano Beach festival.

CADY MCCLAIN: The Art of Cupcakes
"This October, with the news plunging me into moments of despair and horror, I find Magnolia Bakery making it higher and higher to the top of my gratitude list. The other night they had cupcakes with Halloween decorations on it and I almost cried for joy. Then I noticed right behind them they had cupcakes with a special pink ribbon on top that would donate the extra 50 cents they cost to charity. I thought of my mom, who passed from breast cancer almost 14 years ago, and our night of watching cats screw while licking the icing bowl. I quietly bought the ribbon cupcake instead and licked it clean with sorrow and memory and love and gratitude."