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"Against the Wall," from Annie Brunner ("Huff"), is about a policewoman who causes a riff with her cop brothers when she joins Internal Affairs.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Women's cable network Lifetime is diving heavily into the crime drama genre,Ed hardy Shoes, ordering three police procedural pilots from notable showrunners.

"Exit 19" is about a single mother raising kids while working as a New York City homicide detective. The project comes from Jeffrey Bell ("V") and executive producers Nina Wass ("Less Than Perfect") and Gene Stein.

The trio will contend for a spot on Lifetime's schedule next year, along with the "embedded pilot" that will air during this season of "Army Wives" that lays the ground for a potential spinoff. The "Wives" spinoff is also a police procedural.

Finally, an untitled project from Josh Berman ("CSI,Louis Vuitton," "Bones") is about two female police detectives in San Diego who investigate high-profile crimes while navigating their personal lives. Berman also created Lifetime's comedy-drama "Drop Dead Diva."

Pattinson, 24, is a distant cousin of Prince William and Prince Harry on their father's side, probably through the Pickering family who lived in northern England in the early 1500s,Calvin Klein, Ancestry.com said.

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

Genealogy web site Ancestry.com said on Wednesday that the British actor is distantly related to Vlad III Dracula — the cruel 15th century ruler who inspired Bram Stoker's literary Count Dracula in 1897.

Family history experts said Pattinson and Vlad — the Transylvania-born despot also known as Vlad the Impaler — are likely related through today's British royal family.

Pattinson plays love-sick vampire Edward Cullen in the smash hit film franchise based on the novels by Stephenie Meyer. The first two movies earned a combined $1.1 billion at world-wide box offices. The third film "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" opens on June 30.

"Tracing Pattinson's family back to Vlad was difficult research, but the pieces that unraveled created the perfect accompaniment to 'The Twilight Saga',Christian Audigier," said Anastasia Tyler, a genealogist at Ancestry.com.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Bite into "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson's past and what do you get? A blood-curdling connection to Dracula, the biggest vampire of them all.

Pattinson isn't the only movie star whose past bears an eerie resemblance to his screen persona. Last year, Ancestry.com said that actress Emma Watson, who plays teen witch Hermione Granger in the "Harry Potter" movies, is related to a 16th century woman accused of witchcraft.

"Without any myth or magic, we find royalty and vampires lurking in Pattinson's life — making his story just as supernatural as the one he is playing on screen," Tyler said.

"We are absolutely intending to do one, and hopefully we'll be getting it out in the stores on the web as quickly at possible," he said. "It's just a question of, how, what, when and where." Babani said that he and the La Cage team were in negotiations with record labels.

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Appearing as the Cagelles are Nick Adams (A Chorus Line,Seven, Guys and Dolls, Chicago), Nicholas Cunningham (La Cage Aux Folles in the West End), Sean Patrick Doyle (Fiddler on the Roof national tour, Wig Out!), Yurel Echezarreta (West Side Story), Terry Lavell (Hairspray in Las Vegas, Smokey Joe's Café national tour) and Logan Keslar (West Side Story in the West End). The production also includes Christophe Caballero, Todd Lattimore, Dale Hensley and Cheryl Stern.

The Tony Award-winning revival of La Cage features new orchestrations by Jason Carr, who takes to heart Herman's lyric about a "fellow with a concertina." Rather than the lavish orchestrations featured in both the original production and 2004 revival, La Cage has returned to Broadway with an intimate sound, conjuring the type of band that would have been featured within the neighborhood nightclub itself.

La Cage aux Folles features music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and book by Harvey Fierstein, based on the play by Jean Poiret. The production, which is choreographed by Lynne Page and directed by Tony Award winner Terry Johnson, originated at London's Menier Chocolate Factory.

Herman's tuneful score includes "The Best of Times," "Look Over There," "I Am What I Am," "Song On the Sand" and the title song. The musical earned the 1984 Tony Award for Best Original Score and Best Musical. An original cast album was made, but the 2004 revival did not get a disc.

Audiences may get to take a new version of Jerry Herman's "Song On the Sand" home with them. Tony Award-winning La Cage aux Folles producer David Babani told Playbill.com that a cast recording of the revival is in the works.

The cast also includes Fred Applegate as Dindon; A.J. Shively, a recent University of Michigan graduate, making his Broadway debut as Jean-Michel; Tony nominee Veanne Cox (Company, Caroline, or Change) as Mme. Dindon/Mme. Renaud; Tony nominee Robin de Jesús (In the Heights) as Jacob; two-time Tony nominee Christine Andreas (My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, On Your Toes) as Jacqueline; Elena Shaddow (Fiddler on the Roof, Fanny at Encores!) as Anne; Chris Hoch (Beauty and the Beast, Spamalot, Shrek the Musical) as Francis; Heather Lindell (Hairspray) as Colette; Bill Nolte (The Producers,Moncler, 1776) as Tabarro and David Nathan Perlow (White Noise) as Etienne.

Douglas Hodge, who originated the role of Albin (also moonlighting as drag performer Zaza) in this London revival, earned both the Olivier and Tony Awards for his performance. He is joined on Broadway by Tony Award nominee Kelsey Grammar as his devoted partner Georges.

Don’t bother showing up for school. The doors are locked and the lights are off.

FORT VALLEY, Ga. – During the school year, Mondays in this rural Georgia community are for video games, trips to grandma’s house and hanging out at the neighborhood community center.

So did attendance ― for both students and teachers. The district is spending one-third of what it once did on substitute teachers, Clark said.

And the graduation rate likely will be more than 80 percent for the first time in years, Clark said.

On their off day,Baby Phat, students who don’t have other options attend “Monday care” at area churches and the local Boys & Girls Club, where tutors are also available to help with homework. The programs generally cost a few dollars a day per student.

It was that or lay off 39 teachers the week before school started, said Superintendent Susan Clark.

The four days that students are in school are slightly longer and more crowded with classes and activities. After school, students can get tutoring in subjects where they’re struggling.

“We’re treading water,Bape,” Clark said as she stood outside the headquarters of her seven-school district. “There was nothing else for us to do.”

Peach County is one of more than 120 school districts across the country where students attend school just four days a week, a cost-saving tactic gaining popularity among cash-strapped districts struggling to make ends meet. The 4,000-student district started shaving a day off its weekly school calendar last year to help fill a $1 million budget shortfall.

The results? Test scores went up.

By the end of January, H & M officially announced, the first Beijing Xidan Joy City stores are currently under preparation and will be open in the spring. This attracted attention in the global economy is facing recession next scene is still confident it enter the China market, the era of cheap big has come?

Back in early January, people have noted that Joy City basement of a corner enclosed by H & M logo curtain. January 29, H & M had formally announced, the company plans in 2009 an additional 225 stores worldwide, of which the first Beijing Xidan Joy City stores are currently under preparation and will be open in the spring. The Internet rumors for nearly half a year of speculation, “H & M exactly when to open stores in Beijing, where a warm debate.” Would also like to put to an end on the characterization.

H & M what kind of origin is also its first store settled in Beijing could even suggest a cause for such attention? In the global Burberry  economy is facing recession next scene it is still confident to enter the Chinese market?

H & M, full name Hennes & Mauritz, a Swedish fashion company, is Europe’s largest clothing retailer, although it has a name Burberry   resounding level of luxury big neck and neck, but the route it is cheap and fashion, But it is also, and the rise of big-name luxury goods is inseparably related to H & M led, ZARA, C & A, GAP, they are known to copy the big style of “regular” clothing brand.

In the 2007 to 2008 in the first half of the time, when big-name luxury goods are still ambitious plan in China’s domestic market, the luxury of their empire, it does not expect in October 2008 in a fierce global financial crisis, so that the original the middle class has Burberry  nothing to do with the low cost of living began to global fashion. That whether rich or poor are a popular way of life and economic models performed in various continents, which also made such as H & M fashion line to go parity become beneficiaries of the enterprise. H & M the latest in a performance report shows that in November 30, 2008 end of the fiscal year, the company net profit of 15.3 billion SEK (1 U.S. dollar equals 8 SEK), compared with the previous fiscal year increased by 17 million kroner, Burberry  an increase of nearly 13%.