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A legend among his character-actor friends at Marylou's and Elaine's for his impeccable style and his long romance with the wiseguy life, Geno Durante hasn't been seen much in the movies, but he's played one role to perfection: himself.

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Dr. Niels Lauersen is so charismatic that patients flocked to his insurance-fraud trial. But investigators are asking: Just how good a doctor is he?

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach thinks Michael Jackson can help rebuild his religion. The Kabbalah Center sells Hebrew holy water. Makor, on the Upper West Side, offers talks on finding "The Jewish Buddha Within." Welcome to the new -- not strictly kosher -- world of Judaism.

In the capital, rules about sex are made to be broken.

Disney and the rest of America have come to Broadway, but the patriarch of theater's last dynasty does business just the way he did when the city's hottest nightspots were Sardi's and the Stork.

Can a rude, clueless, provincial Australian woman who's actually a man conquer Broadway and win a place in the American cultural pantheon? Barry Humphries's Dame Edna is on the verge.

So what if Selena Roberts gets carried away?

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