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'Legally Blonde' star plays it from the heart

Becky Gulsvig has been awash in pink, onstage anyway, since she began playing various roles in the cast of the musical Legally Blonde during its Broadway run from mid-2007 until the fall of 2008.

When the national tour hit the road, Gusvig graduated to the lead, donning Elle Woods' pretty-in-pink wardrobe and perky can-do attitude. That tour brings Elle and her posse to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts Tuesday for a two-week run.

Based on the smash-hit 2001 movie starring Reese Witherspoon, Legally Blonde the Musical tells the same story of a seemingly shallow Southern California sorority girl who gets dumped by her longtime boyfriend and decides to follow him to Harvard Law School. There, Elle taps into talents she never knew she had, and the world learns not to judge a book by its fuzzy pink cover.

Quirky '(500) Days of Summer' is a rare rom-com with a masculine view

Pretty much every studio executive who read the screenplay for (500) Days of Summer -- a boy-meets-girl story with Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Summer (Zooey Deschanel) told exclusively from Tom's point of view -- liked it. But they all wanted a tiny tweak or two before they would commit to the project.

``One guy said, `I have an idea. Why don't we start off with Tom driving in a car, and he's crying, and his face is covered with blood, so people spend the movie trying to figure out what happened!' '' says Marc Webb, who wound up directing the movie, which opens today.

``My favorite one was, `We like the script. We want to buy it, and we want to make it. We just need to change one thing: It can't be about a relationship,' '' Webb says, laughing.

Lunch With Lydia | She's, like, so not like that

Paris Hilton, willowy in a floor-length dress, speaks in a certain sing-song that comes and goes as she munches on fruit at the Shore Club's Ago.

She can so speak in that little girl high-pitched thing where everything ends, like, in a question mark? And she can speak straight, punctuating thoughts with periods, her voice a normal grown-up pitch.

The shifts are not so pronounced you notice them right away. But they're definitely there. The stuff about one of her Chihuahuas just having three puppies, all ``reaaally cute,'' named Dolce, Gabbana and Prada? High-pitched. The stuff about her new CD, Paris, produced by the super-hot Scott Storch and dropping Tuesday? Normal voice.

MOVIE REVIEW: 'Music and Lyrics' barely reaches a hum as love song

Imagine an alternative Valentine's Day, where the colors are orange and yellow instead of red and pink, and the goal is to celebrate a wonderful friendship struck up through a shared professional goal.

"Music and Lyrics" would be the perfect date movie for that alternative Valentine's Day. But for the occasion most people celebrate, which entails love and romance, it falls short, given the lack of romantic spark between Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore.

That's not to say Grant and Barrymore are ever anything less than easy to watch. Their likability, solo and together, is never in question, and "Music and Lyrics," though comedically mild and too beholden to romantic comedy conventions, moves along well enough.

iPod vs. DJ: Many scratch live music, turntables in favor of playlists

If video killed the radio star, will the iPod take out the DJ?

Not quite, but if wedding-planning message boards are any indication, more and more people are considering the cheap and convenient alternative to hired entertainment at weddings and other events.

Adam Love and his wife, Jennifer, were looking at trying to keep their costs down and their ceremony intimate when they decided to use an iPod for their reception in 2005. They created a five-hour playlist and found that the celebration turned more into a social affair than a dance party -- just the way they liked it.