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Donny and Marie sign for Las Vegas show

Donny and Marie Osmond will perform in a variety show at the Flamingo Las Vegas hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip beginning in September.

The brother-sister duo, who starred in the Donny & Marie variety show in 1976, will play Tuesday-Saturday shows for 26 weeks over eight months at the Flamingo Showroom, a hotel official said Friday.

The 90-minute show, beginning Sept. 9, will be presented by Danny Gans and Chip Lightman of GansLight Entertainment. It is being billed as a greatest-hits multimedia spectacle with multiple video screens and a cast of dancers.

"My version of a variety show has been what Vegas has known thus far," said Gans, a comedian who has long played in Las Vegas. "What we have now is a true variety show which conveys the real essence of America and the country's love of homegrown talent."

Tickets, which are priced at $85, $99 and $115, go on sale Monday.

In the 1970s, Donny and Marie's musical family, The Osmonds, shared the marquee at the old International hotel with Elvis Presley. The International is now the Las Vegas Hilton.

Amy Poehler has new cartoon show for kids

Amy Poehler is busy as a bee this weekend, and her alter ego, Bessie Higgenbottom, couldn't be happier.

On Friday, her new film, Baby Mama, made its theatrical debut. Today, Poehler goes from being hired to have a kid to being a kid in her new cartoon show The Mighty B. She does get some time off from Saturday Night Live, which is airing a repeat.

"I'm going to go to bed and stay in my pajamas until 10:30 a.m. and watch Mighty B," Poehler said of her post-movie celebration plans.

The show, making its debut on the Nickelodeon cable network, was co-created by Poehler and stars her as 9-and-3/4-year-old Bessie, the most obsessive member of her Girl Scout-like troop, the Honeybees.

She wears her uniform everywhere and has amassed merit badges for everything from entering a stray dog in a high-end pet show to riding a roller coaster she's too short to get on.

In real life Poehler was a Brownie, although not as successful at Bessie.

"I think I made like a pencil holder and I went to a steakhouse restaurant. That's all I can remember," she said from her New York City home.

Bessie, with her adenoidal voice, is based on a Poehler character from Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade.