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I know some people have gone gaga over Lady Gaga, but I think it’s time to get real here. Despite the dramatic overtones of everything she does, is there any talent there?

I won’t approach this from a moral or ethical standpoint, but there are issues to discuss there. I mean, come on, she did an interview on “Good Morning America” in an outfit she said was inspired by a condom.

I want to look at her from a musical standpoint.

Is her flair for the dramatic masking the fact that she lacks musical talent?

While some ministers play golf, fish or hunt, Chuck Walker, pastor of St. James Catholic Church in Elizabethtown, likes to play the harmonica in the Waste Band, he said.

Some weekends he’ll play in the band on Saturday nights and then get up for Mass on Sunday morning.

“This Waste Band thing is a nice, clean, relaxing and entertaining way to relieve a little stress and enjoy the company of others —in the band and in the audience,” he said.

“Battle Los Angeles” hit theaters over the weekend, but unfortunately it was missing Elizabethtown native Amy Dudgeon. Her scene was cut from the final edit of the film.

The film follows a group of Marines as they engage technically advanced alien invaders while trying to evacuate a few citizens from hostile territory in Los Angeles. Most of the film is filled with doom and gloom as the aliens seek to wipeout mankind for our resources.

If you are thinking that sounds familiar, you’re right.

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The musical “Oklahoma” will be sweeping into the Hardin County Playhouse season in June, but first the musical needs a cast.

Auditions for “Oklahoma” will be held 6:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the Plum Alley Theater in the Historic State Theater complex in Elizabethtown.

“Oklahoma” is a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that takes place in the Oklahoma Territory in the early 1900s. It was originally staged in 1943 and was turned into a film in 1955.