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Lauryn Hill	Prince Edward
Clint Eastwood	Carmen Miranda

Rhythm and blues fans may be anxiously watching to see what Lauryn Hill becomes, but the Grammy-winning singer has a feeling she already knows.

"I'm turning into my mother every day. I sound like her, I'm starting to dance like her. Definitely talking like her," Hill says in the Oct. 2 issue of Entertainment Weekly.

She also has some commentary on her father.

"My father is the type of father who at a wedding would try to break-dance and embarrass us -- he was that cat," she said.

Between putting out a solo album, "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill," which sold more than a million copies in less than a month, and keeping alive her group, The Fugees, the 23-year-old New Jersey native has a growing family of her own. She is pregnant with her second child by Ronah Marley, son of the legendary Bob Marley.

Changing his name hasn't helped Prince Edward deflect fame.

To get people to focus on his small film company, Ardent Productions Ltd., Queen Elizabeth's youngest child calls himself Edward Windsor. As in, Windsor Castle, the House of Windsor and the Duke of Windsor.

"The very fact that people always ask me about my title, means that they're still hung up about it. They're not looking at the programs we make, they're only looking at the title," Edward said in yesterday's editions of The Washington Post.

Running the company is hard enough. Ardent lost money for its first four years but is operating in the black today, he says. He has made everything from soap operas to historical documentaries to murder mysteries -- all for television.

While Edward, 34, admits his family's fame has helped him, "probably the cons outweigh the pros," as people see him as a prince rather than an artist or businessman.

Hey, what are friends for?

Clint Eastwood flew into Billings, Mont., on Friday for the grand opening of his friends' new restaurant. Rex was built in a historic downtown building that is something of a town landmark.

The 68-year-old actor-director is friends with Rex partners John Purcell and Gene Burgad, who's also the restaurant's manager.

"It gives a big boost to the weekend and the whole atmosphere," Burgad said of Eastwood's visit.

Carmen Miranda a square?

Yes.

The Brazilian-born 1940s singer-actress with the banana headdress had her name immortalized in asphalt on Friday. An intersection across the street from Mann's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles was officially designated Carmen Miranda Square.

The actress, who died in 1955, has her footprints in cement in front of the theater.

Only about a dozen city intersections have been named for historic personages.

"Carmen was a pioneer," Sergio Mielniczenko, a cultural attache to the Brazilian Consulate, told the Los Angeles Times. "She was the first name that was widely known from Brazil."

He was among about 70 Brazilian diplomats, performers and fans who gathered for the dedication.

A city traffic sign will mark the square.

-- Compiled from wire reports