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to NPR's Kasell to end 'Morning' run Veteran National Public Radio newscaster Carl Kasell, 75, will do his last "Morning Edition" broadcast Dec. 30, the Associated Press reports. Fans needn't worry, though. Kasell will remain on "Wait Wait Don't Tell NPR's weekly quiz show. NPR hasn't named an "Edition" successor yet 2.

U2 headlines Glastonbury 10 To mark the 40th anniversary of England's massive Glastonbury festival, U2, that big ol' band from Ireland, will headline the bill June 25, according to the event's official Web site: GlastonburyfestivaIs.co.uk. 3. Oprah ready to sex up HBO Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Films will develop a pilot for HBO with "Secretary" writer Erin Cressida Wilson. According to Variety, the sexed-up series follows a woman who leaves her marriage and family to indulge herself in Los Angeles. Horoscope CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS Donald (Duck) Dunn, 68 Pete Best, 68 Stanley Livingston, 59 Colin Hanks, 32 Katherine Heigl, 31 I IH.IMIM.J II I f' I I I By HOLIDAY MATHIS TODAY'S BIRTHDAY: This will be one of your most enterprising years.

Your ambition moves you to create alliances and perhaps even form a company. An occurrence in your personal life feels magical, and yet it is the result of years of working on yourself. Financial uplift comes in the form of a new assignment or investor in March. Virgo and Gemini people adore you. ARIES (March 21-ApriI 19): When relationships get tense, a new mindset will be your freedom.

If you don't attach any conditions to your love, you will find happiness with the love you get. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You'll receive a signal, and the message is hard to miss it's time to clear out the sentimental clutter from your life. GEMINI (May 21-June 21): There are so many in need that it can be overwhelming to know where to start. Let your charitable impulses guide the way. CANCER (June 22-July 22): Whatever mood shifts happen during the course of the day, by the end of the day things will look beautiful to you once again.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): No one is as put-together as you. But it's not really about a new tie or a different shade of eye shadow. Something inside you radiates. VIRGO (Aug.

23-Sept. 22): You'll hark back to another time in your life. Remembering it 4 makes you realize that you have so much to be thankful for now. LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct.

23): A dull sense that something is wrong will turn into an alarm bell. Pinpointing the trouble source will move you to SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): You'll be so happy with what you have that you don't give even a thought to what others have. SAGITTARIUS (Nov.

22-Dec. 21): There's a difference between a touchstone and an anchor. Jettison the thing that once brought you comfort but Is now a source of stagnation. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.

19): You've been chosen by the cosmos to be the center of -attention in your world, and it will feel right to have all eyes on you. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You might choose to believe that there is enough for everyone, and that each role Is important in its own way. PISCES (Feb.

19-March 20): A chore is a chore only when done with a heavy heart. You know this, which is why you approach your bilities with a smile. tallica, and it was a different time and place for both of them, Stapp said. The Creed singer added he apologized to Rock for the incident and for not burning the evidence. Briefly I Michigan-made funny man Tim Allen will kick off his 10-city Stand Up and Show It tour Dec.

1, and, yes, it's coming to metro Detroit. Allen is due Dec. 10 at the Palladium 12 in Birmingham. He'll offer a screening of his feature film directorial debut, "Crazy on the Outside" (set for release Jan. 8), after his comedy set in each city on the tour.

As of Monday afternoon, ticket pricing was still being worked out. Check wvm.timallen.com for more details or stay tuned here for details as they become available. "Crazy" stars Allen, Ray Liotta, Sigourney Weaver, Jeanne Tripple-horn and Kelsey Grammer. I Anna Nicole Smith's attorney and reputed boyfriend Howard K. Stern has settled a $60-million defamation suit he filed against former MSNBC anchor Rita Cosby, according to Eonline.com.

Details of the settlement were not released. Stern sued Cosby for allegations made in the book "Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death." One that he termed an outright lie was her claim that he and Smith's baby daddy, Larry Birkhead, were lovers. I Dr. Conrad Murray, the cardiologist at the center of the investigation into Michael Jackson's death, has returned to work and is treating patients again in his Houston and Las Vegas clinics, ABC reports. COMPILED BY B.J.

HAMMERSTEIN, EDITOR OF DETR0IT.METR0MIX.COM. CONTACT HIM AT 313-2234528 OR BJHAMMERSTEINaFREEPRESS.COM. Lambert edited for West Coast Just as ABC promised (and promoted) during its live East Coast broadcast Sunday night, Adam Lambert's closing number at the 37th annual American Music Awards was what viewers were buzzing about Monday. And he's not sorry for anything, including performing simulated sex acts, planting a sloppy wet one on his male keyboardist, flipping the crowd the bird or falling down during the performance. "I'm not an artist that does things for every single person," the 27-year-old "American idol" alum told "Access Hollywood" on Sunday after presenting the title track from his debut album, "For Your Entertainment." By Monday afternoon, ABC said more than 1,500 people had called to complain about the performance.

(West Coast viewers saw a carefully edited version.) "There's a big double standard," Lambert said Sunday before seeing the West Coast cut. "Female pop artists have been doing things provocative like that for years, and the fact that I'm a male, and I'll be edited and discriminated against could be a problem. "People are scared and it's really sad. I just wish people could open their minds up and enjoy things. It's all for a laugh." Jennifer Lopez also received a bit of editing for the Left Coast feed, but that was to keep fans from seeing Jenny from the Block fall on her behind.

"Did I trip a little bit?" J.Lo said Monday on Ryan Seacrest's radio show. "I don't even remember." MATT SAYLESAssociated Press Adam Lambert says that a female performer would have gotten away with what he did at the American Music Awards. Needs a bib "People look at you like a zoo I'm just a human being and sometimes a messy eater." "Gossip Girl" sensation Blake Lively, talking to Parade magazine about the media frenzy (and fans with cell phones) who scrutinize her, particularly at restaurants, She's promoting her new film, "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee," and will be hosting "Saturday Night Live" on Dec. 5, Stapp talks Kid Rock video Polarizing Creed front man Scott Stapp caught up with Spin to talk reunion and more, but because this is Names Faces, let's focus on what Stapp had to say about the infamous video featuring hometown bad boy Kid Rock and several young women. "Well, there's no sex on the sex tape.

For it to get characterized that way, I mean, that kind of sucks," Stapp said of the vid, which allegedly was shot in 1999 before being stolen and then released in 2006. It was shot in Tampa, while Rock and Stapp were touring with Me- No longer religious, but she draws the line at premarital sex band, I started to change my mind. He clearly wanted to have sex, but was willing to wait until I was ready. I waited until we hit a point in our relationship where I was pretty sure I wouldn't regret having sex with him even if we broke up at some point. Then I knew I was ready.

Anonymous 3 Dear Anonymous 3: 1 like that, because it applies to absolutely everyone, from the early adopters to the strictest of holdouts. Thanks. I READ CAROLYN HAX EVERY DAY IN THE FREE PRESS. WRITE TO HER CARE OF THE WASHINGTON POST, STYLE PLUS, 1150 15TH NW, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20071 OR E-MAIL TELLME9WASHPQST.COM.

be. This difference between-expectations and reality is probably true for everyone. The trick to sexual com- patibility is communication; approach to problems; willingness to compromise, learn and try new things, and respect each other's boundaries. Perhaps his past relationships ended due to this, not sex. Anonymous 2 Dear Anonymous 2: Emotional compatibility is a strong engine for physical attraction, and certainly it's great to have if something else breaks down.

There can be problems despite a strong bond, though. There could be unrealistic Hi, Carolyn: I am a 27-year-old virgin. I was raised pretty religiously. However, during senior year of college I began really questioning that upbringing and would no longer identify myself as religious, although I do still have some fundamental beliefs that stem from that upbringing. Yet, I still can't bring myself to have premarital sex.

I haven't had a relationship where it's been an issue yet, but I could easily see myself being the girl Anonymous wrote in about in Monday's column. I think I'm OK with some degree of "life happens," but just not in this area. Anonymous 1 mere formality, where you consider marrying not because it would make you more committed to each other but because it's just easier that way with your family, future kids, whatever then "before" or "after" is no longer a relevant distinction. Dear Carolyn: Let me caution anyone who thinks they can predict sexual compatibility based on premarital sex. When my husband was 30, he began to suffer from impotence.

The same year I was diagnosed as sterile. Talk about blows to your sex life. It is now over 20 years later. We are still married, just not the marriage I thought it would expectations, for example, that everything will click from the start. It can also be unrealistic to expect emotions to be the only engine.

Appetite involves just about everything physical, emotional, health, external factors and so is particularly difficult to predict. It can plummet for reasons unrelated to physical or emotional compatibility. And wow has that led to some marital disappointments, regardless of whether sex came before or after marriage. Dear Carolyn: I was once in the wait-for-religious-rea-sons camp. When I met my now-hus- CAROLYN HAX Dear Anonymous 1: 1 have a hunch, given your arc, that if you were in a brink-of-mar-riage, this-is-it relationship with someone, you might change your mind.

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