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Here's what is happening in pop culture:
• Here are your "stars" for the upcoming season of "Dancing With the Stars": "Real Housewife" Kim Zolciac Biermann, singer Tamar Braxton, actor/crazy person Gary Busey, Backstreet Boy Nick Carter, TV chef Paula Deen, jockey Victor Espinoza, singer Andy Grammer, TV personality Bindi Irwin (daughter of "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin), Vine celeb Hayes Grier, singer Chaka Khan, actress Alexa PenaVega ("Spy Kids," "Repo! The Genetic Opera"), singer/actor Carlos PenaVega (Alexa's husband), and Alek Skarlatos, one of the Americans who disarmed a gunman on a Paris-bound train last week. [Entertainment Weekly]
• The latest info out of the Sony e-mail leak: The studio softened some points in its upcoming drama "Concussion," starring Will Smith as the Nigerian doctor who helped diagnose a rare brain disease in football players, to appease the National Football League. [The New York Times]
• Former Fox Sports chairman David Hill and filmmaker Reginald Hudlin have been tabbed to produce the 88th Academy Awards ceremony — and Hill promises an "up-close-and-personal approach" to the show. [The Hollywood Reporter]