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    No one was more stunned than Cher when she recently found out ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” will pay tribute to* her decades-long music career on the November 4 show.

    “It’s always strange when people do something like this. You’re not thinking about those kinds of things,” she said. “It just always takes me by surprise. It just does.”

    Cher will sing her hit “Believe” and her new song “Closer to the Truth” on the show, as well as serve as a guest judge, but won’t be dancing because of a foot injury she sustained years ago. “I am waiting to have an operation,” she says. “The doctor got a little crankier* and said I have to do it.”

    Even if she could dance today, you won’t find Cher dancing on “DWTS” as a contestant. “Aren’t I old enough now not to be a contestant anymore?” the singer, 67, says. “Haven’t I got past the contestant part?”

    Her son, Chaz Bono, who was a contestant on “DWTS,” will be there for the tribute. “I am excited for it and he is, too,” she said. “But like me, he is low-key and won’t get excited for it until that day. We are all low-key.”(SD-Agencies)Punk poet Lou Reed dies at 71

    Lou Reed, the pioneering songwriter and musician behind the influential rock band Velvet Underground, which fused* art and music in collaboration with artist Andy Warhol, died on Sunday at the age of 71, his literary agent said.

    Reed, best recognized by mainstream audiences for his 1972 solo hit “Walk on the Wild Side,” died at the Long Island home he shared with his wife, Laurie Anderson, following complications* from a liver transplant* he underwent earlier this year.

    Orlando Bloom, Miranda Kerr separate

    British actor Orlando Bloom and Australian model Miranda Kerr have separated after three years of marriage, the couple said on Friday.

    Bloom, 36, who is starring in a modern-day version of “Romeo and Juliet” on Broadway, and Kerr, 30, said they have been amicably* separated for the past few months.

    Tom Cruise to join Kosinski

    Tom Cruise and “Oblivion” director Joseph Kosinski are planning to reteam for the racing movie “Go Like Hell,” multiple individuals familiar with the 20th Century Fox project confirmed.

    While there are no deals in place yet for Cruise or Kosinski, the duo are in talks to develop “Go Like Hell” as a starring vehicle for Cruise.

    Chris Brown arrested

    Rapper Chris Brown was arrested and charged with assault in Washington on Sunday after getting into a fight with a man outside a hotel near the White House, police said.

    Brown was charged with felony* assault at 4:25 a.m. after the altercation* outside the hotel, a few hundred meters from the White House, the Metropolitan Police Department said. (SD-Agencies)