LOS ANGELES (AP) — The "reinvention" of the 1980 high school musical "Fame" — please, people, don't call it a remake — stays faithful to the spirit and structure

There are a lot of movies about the angst and the hope of high school, and even a few musicals set in that time period, but none of them were quite as devastating or as memorable as "Fame."

Actress Bebe Neuwirth has married California wine connoisseur Chris Calkins in an intimate New York ceremony.

Happy Birthday to New Kid Joey McIntyre (1972), Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian (1963), Wonderland star Val Kilmer (1959), stage and screen actress Bebe Neuwirth (1958), rocker George Thorogood (1951),

Bebe Neuwirth returned to Broadway's "Chicago" on New Year's Eve with a new hip. The actress, who turned 48 on the same day, had her "strange" hip replaced last May and her recovery went so well she decided it was time to return to the musical, for which she earned a 1997 Tony Award.

Happy Birthday to New Kid Joey McIntyre (1972), Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian (1963), Wonderland star Val Kilmer (1959), stage and screen actress Bebe Neuwirth (1958), rocker George Thorogood (1951), disco queen Donna Summer (1948), Animal House actor Tim Matheson (1947), lead singer of The Guess Who Burton Cummings (1947), Ray director Taylor Hackford (1944), "Gandhi" actor Ben Kingsley (1943), country/folk musician John Denver (1943; d. 1997), Hannibal Lecter actor Anthony Hopkins (1937), and French Fauve painter Henri Matisse (1869; d. 1954).

Rocker Huey Lewis is returning to the Broadway, New York. stage to revive his role as singing lawyer Billy Flynn in smash hit musical "Chicago." The singer will return to the Ambassador Theatre on November 20 and stay with the show until the new year.

Bebe Neuwirth jumped at the chance to shoot a love scene with Michael Keaton in new movie "Game 6" because she always wanted to kiss his lips. The actress, who appears semi-naked in the steamy sex scene, insists she had no problems baring her rear because it looks good, and she got to smooch one of her heroes.

Happy Birthday to New Kid Joey McIntyre (1972), Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian (1963), Wonderland star Val Kilmer (1959), stage and screen actress Bebe Neuwirth (1958), rocker George Thorogood (1951), disco queen Donna Summer (1948), Animal House actor Tim Matheson (1947), lead singer of The Guess Who Burton Cummings (1947), Ray director Taylor Hackford (1944), "Gandhi" actor Ben Kingsley (1943), country/folk musician John Denver (1943; d. 1997), Hannibal Lecter actor Anthony Hopkins (1937), and French Fauve painter Henri Matisse (1869; d. 1954).