Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi and America's Second Harvest are partnering on a charity auction featuring such gets as lunch with SVU's Mariska Hargitay, dinner with Heroes' Jimmy Jean-Louis and a visit with Food Network's Sandra Lee. Visit eBay.com/woodbridge for deets.... The fan site Jalopnik.com has photos suggesting that the new K.I.T.T. being used for NBC's upcoming Knight Rider movie/backdoor pilot is a 550 HP Ford Shelby GT500KR. Mind you, this K.I.T.T. shape-shifts, Transformers-like, so for all we know he's really a Pinto.... London simply wasn't getting into the groove, and as such a West End adaptation of Desperately Seeking Susan is being shuttered a month after opening night.
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Blondie is lending songs — including "Heart of Glass" and "One Way or Another" — to a West End musical based on the 1985 Madonna film Desperately Seeking Susan, says the AP. Emma Williams (Bat Boy) will channel the Material Girl.... Claire Danes makes her Broadway debut as Eliza Doolittle to Jefferson Mays' Henry Higgins in Pygmalion, opening Oct. 18.... Xanadu, whose Broadway bow was visited by one Olivia Newton-John, is drawing primarily positive reviews. The New York Daily News, for one, deemed the production "90 minutes of souped-up silliness" that translates into "a cure for the summertime blues." The Post, alas, offers one of the few grand slams, calling it "an absolutely ghastly show." I report, you decide.
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