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SHAMELESS. 10 p.m. Sunday, Showtime. ACTORS ARE fond of proclaiming that their co-stars are like family - seldom specifying Brady or Manson - but as far as Emmy Rossum's concerned, the cast members playing her five younger siblings on Showtime's "Shameless" are as close to the real thing as she's going to get. Except for Jeremy Allen White, who plays the genius Lip, "all of the kids are only children, which I think is interesting," Rossum,...

Eric Zimpfer wore a cast on his left arm, but it didn't stop the Unionville quarterback from throwing four touchdown passes in a 28-0 win over Oxford Friday. The 6-foot-4 senior completed 9 of 12 passes and was named the most valuable player of the week in the Del-Val American at the Delaware County Football Coaches Association meeting Monday. Other area players honored by league coaches include: Del-Val American: Quarterback, Eric Zimpfer (Unionville); Running back, Mark Hineman (Unionville)

There've been more changes, and a little more information from the networks about what we'll be missing on television this summer while we're all out in the Florida surf or sunning in Mexico. From NBC: "Our House," will lighten-up a bit by putting more emphasis on comedy; new cast members for "The Facts of Life" and "Amen" will be added in the fall. Sherrie Kren, a native of Australia, joins "Facts" as an exchange student at Eastland Academy, and "Amen's" Sherman Hemsley adopts a young son, who has yet to be cast.

The new Broadway show "One Man, Two Guvnors" is the hoot of the season. On one level, it's a story about a dum-dum who becomes the full-time lackey for two different shady employers and who hasn't the brains to handle one full-time job, let alone two. On another level, it's a vehicle for running wonderfully amok — and taking an audience along. Whatever it is, I dare you to see it and not laugh out loud, a lot. "One Man, Two Guvnors," which opened Wednesday night, is from the National Theatre of Great Britain, and it comes intact with a four-piece band called The Craze.

You've tried standing on one foot. You've tried the plastic bag trick. But no matter what you do, the cast on your broken ankle still gets wet when you take a shower. Now there is a solution, according to orthopedic technician Bill Schaefer of Turnersville, N.J. Since last summer, he has been using 3-M Wet-to Dry cast padding, which is designed to repel water. "I use this padding exclusively," said Schaefer, who works at Tri-County Orthopedics. "I put everyone in it because the biggest hardship is that you can't get washed.

Shakespeare must go through a big battle between the British and the French in Henry V, so he cheats. Through the play, he sends out a chorus in a theatrical preemptive strike: Sorry, they apologize, the play should be more convincing. Or it's too distant. Or the scene change is too quick. Not a wisp of this is true on the Delaware Theatre Company Stage, where director Sanford Robbins' scrappy, inventive production of the play opened Saturday night. Robbins stages Henry V all around us, and we become a part of the swirl between the king of England and the French, and the Battle of Agincourt that ensues in 1415.

The cast protecting Jerry Stackhouse's left hand is shrinking even as we speak. The legend of the kid from Kinston, N.C., is growing. The 76ers' rookie shooting guard began training camp with his hand encased in a cast that went down to the forearm, protecting a hairline fracture just above the ring finger. By last night, he was wearing a much smaller version, covering just the immediate area of concern. "It keeps getting smaller," Stackhouse said after fully participating in all of the drills and scrimmaging at the Bob Carpenter Complex.

Two movies with ensemble casts and plots about life among the contemporary midlife set top this week's list of new movies on video. INDIAN SUMMER 1/2 (1993) (Touchstone) $94.95. 108 minutes. Alan Arkin, Matt Craven, Sam Raimi, Diane Lane, Julie Warner, Bill Paxton, Elizabeth Perkins, Kevin Pollak, Vincent Spano. Don't believe anyone who tells you Indian Summer is a boomer reunion film in the spirit of The Return of the Secaucus Seven and The Big Chill. This summer-camp reunion film has a much better-looking ensemble cast, but the members don't mourn the loss of their ideals.

For Joyce Bohus of Medford, the opportunity to act with a national touring theatrical company after she had dreamed of it all her life is exciting enough. But being cast in the same production as her son Eric is a wonderful treat. Mother and son will be touring together nationally for about three months in the Jerry Kravat Entertainment Inc. production of My Fair Lady. After auditioning in New York City, Eric Bohus was cast in the musical's ensemble, and he will be understudy for one of the characters, Freddy.

Jeff and Samantha have a First World problem: They can't get their daughter into the insular and cutthroat world that is New York City's private kindergartens. (Although set in New York, "The Best and the Brightest" was made in Philadelphia and features brownstones around Rittenhouse Square.) Samantha (Bonnie Somerville) checks out several schools but is laughed out of the room once administrators learn that her daughter is no longer in utero. So she and Jeff (Neil Patrick Harris) enlist boozy education consultant Sue Myers (Amy Sedaris)

As interest continues to grow nationwide in all things Southern food — restaurants, chefs, cookbooks — there's a "natural curiosity" about the humble yet celebrated cast-iron skillet, says Virginia Willis, the Atlanta-based authority on the region's cooking. The cast-iron skillet's virtues, and utility, can't be underestimated, in her view. "If you have a cast-iron skillet, you can make so many things in it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner," says Willis, author of Basic to Brilliant Y'all (Ten Speed, $35)

WASHINGTON - Major delays, cost overruns, and critical technological problems are plaguing a missile-defense system designed to protect the United States and Europe from an Iranian attack, Pentagon advisers and government investigators say about one of President Obama's top military programs. The reports cast doubt on the shield, a politically sensitive issue at home and in relations with Russia. They say missile interceptors are running into production glitches, radars are underpowered, and sensors cannot distinguish between warheads and other objects.

The new Broadway show "One Man, Two Guvnors" is the hoot of the season. On one level, it's a story about a dum-dum who becomes the full-time lackey for two different shady employers and who hasn't the brains to handle one full-time job, let alone two. On another level, it's a vehicle for running wonderfully amok — and taking an audience along. Whatever it is, I dare you to see it and not laugh out loud, a lot. "One Man, Two Guvnors," which opened Wednesday night, is from the National Theatre of Great Britain, and it comes intact with a four-piece band called The Craze.

The rich stories involving a golem - a fictional Jewish guardian imbued with the dangerous power to protect at all costs - make perfect sense in light of Jewish history. A golem is like a security blanket, but much scarier: It provides comfort but also must fight oppression. The most famous golem story - they are all tales, with golem springing from an ancient Hebrew word that means a shapeless form - is set in 16th-century Prague. In the world-premiere play called The Golem, which Ego Po Classic Theater opened Thursday night with an experienced cast and unwavering sincerity - there's a neat twist.

CAN THE HOODIE be rehabilitated? I ask that because, in the wake of the tragedy and furor surrounding the shooting death of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, in Florida, the hoodie has been used as a symbol by those rallying for the arrest of Zimmerman. There have been million-hoodie marches in New York, Miami and two in Philadelphia. In the middle of this hoodie discussion rides Geraldo Rivera, Fox News host, who has said, "I believe George Zimmerman, the overzealous watch captain, should be investigated to the fullest extent of the law, and if he is criminally liable, he should be prosecuted.

The Hunger Games is a visual smorgasbord of a movie, a cast of hundreds dressed in everything from utilitarian garb with Depression-era grit to glam-gone-grotesque Gaga getups inspired by the latest haute couture. It may seem as if it doesn't get much better than this for a costume designer. But the pressure is on to please fans of author Suzanne Collins' YA trilogy; the film opens Friday. "I tried to stay as close to the descriptions in the book as I could," says costume designer Judianna Makovsky.

ORLANDO, Fla. - Cliff Curtis always thought of himself as a funny guy. He did comedies in his native New Zealand. But once Hollywood saw this Maori actor in the breakout drama Once Were Warriors, it was hard to find the man funny. "I did a couple of movies, straight off, where I had to learn to be a tough guy," he says. "And that stuck. " He played shady Arabs ( Three Kings, The Insider, The Majestic ) and cops ( Fracture, Live Free or Die Hard. ). His ethnicity got him plenty of offers in movies set around the drug trade ( Blow, Colombiana )

IT'S THE ONE DAY each half year Tattle has to write about "Dancing with the Stars," the day they announce this season's klutzes. The dozen celebrity contestants in this go-around consist of "Family Matters" actor Jaleel White (whose "Urkel"-making series went off the air in 1998), singer Gladys Knight , Green Bay Packer Donald Driver , "The View" co-host Sherri Shepherd , singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw , "Little House on the Prairie" actress Melissa Gilbert and the requisite Disney Channel star, this time, Roshon Fegan . The new cast also includes tennis legend Martina Navratilova , "Melrose Place" actor Jack Wagner , telenovela star William Levy , opera singer Katherine Jenkins and "Extra" co-host Maria Menounos , thus guaranteeing lots of great coverage on "Extra.

The new cast of ABC's Dancing With the Stars was revealed this morning, and the early money is likely betting on the athletes: Receiver Donald Driver and former tennis star Martina Navratilova . Past winners have included three ice-skating Olympians and Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Hines Ward. Fan favorites, though, often tend to be on the overweight or aged side. Forget the rumors about Vince Young, Eagles backup quarterback last season, and Jersey Shore 's Jennifer "JWoww" Farley.

About 4:30 a.m., Bradley Wrenn knew his fellow cast members needed a lift: They had been acting for nearly nine hours straight - and had 15 more to go. So he scrapped his fireman's uniform and came out on stage in a thong. "I decided I should match that," said fellow cast member Gwendolyn Rooker. Out she came sans maid costume, in just a bra and panties. And so it went at Plays & Players Theatre in Center City on Saturday, where Brat Productions staged a 24-hour version of The Bald Soprano.