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Barry Manilow: The Kate Gosselin for Men

Here's Barry Manilow at an event in Beverly Hills on Thursday (left) -- and "Jon & Kate Plus 8" star Kate Gosselin at an event a little while back (right).

 Barry Manilow and Kate Gosselin

The highlighted, bi-level, reverse mullet weave ... strong enough for a man, but made for a raccoon.

We're just sayin'.

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Looks Like He Sprayed It

Amber Alert! With his best orange self-tanner and favorite frosted Barbara Walters weave in place, Barry Manilow hit the "Today" stage on Friday.
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FYI -- Manilow's music was used as a form of punishment in Colorado, where a judge forced noise violators to endure an hour of Barry's music ... and so far, the research shows the method was effective -- the number of repeat offenders in that particular court is down.

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Manilow's "View" of Elisabeth -- "It Didn't Feel Good"

After he ditched "The View" -- or got ditched by them, depending on who you're talking to -- Barry Manilow and his face seemed to be unmoved by the uproar over his Hasselbeck boycott. And that's Barry in the picture here, not Babwa Walters.


TMZ caught up with the man of exactly one face after a rehearsal, and he told us that while he loved "all those people" at "The View," appearing with Elisabeth on the show "didn't feel good." Barry said he wouldn't appear on the show because he disagreed with what he deemed Hasselbeck's "dangerous" opinions.

Meanwhile, on today's show, Elisabeth wondered if, given recent studies about older men and younger women, she and Manilow couldn't get along down the road. Whoopi said that Barry had already agreed to be on "The View" again soon -- and we're presuming that means that Elisabeth will have to be there, too.

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Babwa to Barry -- We've Got Hassel's Back

"View" den mother Barbara Walters says that as much as she wanted Barry Manilow to come and croon, no one -- not even the "Mandy" singer -- tells her how to run her show!

Manilow told TMZ yesterday that he decided to ditch his appearance on today's "View," because as a close friend of Rosie O'Donnell, he didn't want to sit on the same stage as right-winger Elisabeth Hasselbeck, whose views he called "dangerous." Babwa, on her Sirius radio chatfest last night, said it was "too bad" about Barry's stand. Added co-executive producer Bill Geddie, "We don't do that ... we support everybody ... he's not going to call the shots."

Geddie also pointed out that lefty celeb political flamethrowers like Susan Sarandon and Jane Fonda have also appeared with Elisabeth, and it sure looked like everyone was having a pretty good time last November when Manilow appeared on the show.

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Barry & Rosie -- Breaking Elton's Heart

It's official. Eddie Murphy and Rick James' so bad it's good '80s hit "Party All the Time" is no longer the weirdest musical pairing in history!
Barry Manilow, Rosie O'Donnell
In celebrity-duets-you-never-wanted-to-hear news, Barry Manilow's new album, "The Greatest Songs of the Seventies," will feature the Babwa-fied crooner singing with the, er, help of -- de-Babwaed Rosie O'Donnell! Somewhere Donald Trump is laughing! According to Billboard.com, the duo will collaborate on an "interpretation" of Elton John and KiKi Dee's 1976 classic, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart." You just did Barry. You just did!

Fanilows of the world, you have been warned!

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Oh Barry, You Came and You Posed for a Photo

Today, we salute Barry Manilow. Why? Because Barry Manilow rocks.

TMZ caught the Copacabana singer leaving Mr. Chow last night, signing autographs and posing for photos. When one guy put an old Manilow album cover in front of him, the guy who writes the songs quipped, "Oh you just ran home ... to your grandmother's house to get that!" How can you not love this guy?!

On the opposite end of the machismo spectrum, Iron Mike Tyson and Sugar Ray Leonard also hit Chow's place for some grub last night.

Meanwhile, at Joseph's in Hollywood, Alfonso Ribeiro and Wilmer Valderrama partied with a pantied-up Britney Spears.

All this and more in today's "dress cut down to there" edition of Star Catcher.

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The Babwa-fication of Rock 'n' Roll

When aging male rockers like Barry Manilow, Rod Stewart and Jon Bon Jovi need beauty advice, they turn to ... Barbara Walters?!
Barry Manilow, Rod Stewart, Barbara Walters, Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora,
The 77-year-old "View" host is fast becoming the go-to-ma'am for the latest in blown-out, wispy, ash blonde shag trends for the post-post-post-MTV crowd. When you're a graying Grammy winner, the Rosie man-bob just won't do! He bangs!

And for you men who find yourselves pushing 50 and beyond, but don't feel like going blonde, fear not -- the starched Walters Wave also comes in a lush Richie Sambora Chestnut Brown!

Only your hairdwesser will know for sure!

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Manilow: Not Hip Enough For Emmys

Barry Manilow busts moveIn its never-ending quest to provide you with the moments that everyone will be talking about Monday after the Emmys, TMZ offers: King of schmaltz-pop Barry Manilow.

The 60-year old crooner will be performing at the Emmy Awards on Sunday, and the drama of his performance might not be whether the Manilow can still hit the high notes, but whether he can get through it without falling flat on his face.

Manilow announced earlier this month that he was going to delay surgery on both of his hips until after the Emmy Awards, where he'll be participating in a special tribute to Dick Clark. The singer is also nominated for Best Performance in a Variety Show for his PBS special "Music and Passion." But the usually self-assured Barry recently said, "I'm anxious to make it through the Emmy Awards and then right to the hospital."

So it looks like it'll be a bit of a struggle for Manilow and his rickety hips, providing one of the more riveting, TiVo-ready moments of the telecast. Will he make it? And do you really care? Most of all, what Manilow classic performance will you miss the most if the legend is laid up for longer than we'd care to think about?

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Manilow's Latest Album Opens at No. 1 on the Charts

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Barry Manilow has landed on the top of the charts with a just-released album for the first time in 29 years.

Manilow's "The Greatest Songs of the Fifties," debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, followed by Mary J. Blige's "The Breakthrough" and Andrea Bocelli's "Amore."

The album, 13 standards such as "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" and "Unchained Melody," has sold more than 156,000 copies in the United States since it arrived Jan. 31st.

His previous debut chart-topper was the 1977 concert recording, "Live." His last album, "Scores: Songs From Copacabana and Harmony," had a weak debut in 2004, peaking at No. 47.

Manilow, 62, said he was inspired to sing the 1950s pop classics because he feels they deserve more attention.

"The reason I connected with it is when I looked at the list of songs that came out of the '50s, it seemed to me that they had been neglected," he told Associated Press Television.

"Nobody seems to have done `Unchained Melody' or `It's Not for Me to Say' or `Beyond the Sea,' any of these songs that were wonderfully written that came out of the '50s. So that turned me on. I dove in."

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Barry Manilow Covers Hits From the 60s

By RON BERTHEL, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

You have to admire Barry Manilow's courage.

Making an album of 14 covers of pop classics that have endured for 50 years and risking comparison with their beloved -- even sacred -- original versions takes plenty of guts.

And Manilow's renditions aren't bad.

The problem is that most of these songs will always belong to their original owners.

One original owner is present: Phyllis McGuire joins Manilow on a medley of two hits she had with the McGuire Sisters, "Sincerely" and "Teach Me Tonight," and still sounds pretty good, even after 50 years.

And Manilow's arrangement of "Beyond the Sea" as a ballad rather than as Bobby Darin's hip, upbeat, finger-snapper restores the poignancy and beauty of this song about a soldier yearning to be reunited with his beloved.

But let it be said that "It's Not for Me To Say" need not be sung by anyone but Johnny Mathis. The same is true for "Venus" and Frankie Avalon, "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" and Elvis, and so on.

And although Manilow hardly embarrasses himself on "Unchained Melody," this song simply doesn't sound right in the hands of anyone but the Righteous Brothers (whose definitive version, by the way, was released in 1965, 10 years after the song was introduced by Al Hibbler).

Manilow's voice still has the pleasant, friendly sound that helped him pump out all those hits in the 1970s and 80s. On this album, though, he sometimes seems to be too concerned with his enunciation.

This is a top-notch playlist, and these songs are always good to hear -- even if doing so makes us long for the real thing.


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