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Not everybody can star in Footloose, but they certainly seem to be trying.

On the same day that Paramount finally confirmed what we’ve been telling you for weeks—that Chace Crawford would headline the remake of the song-and-dance extravaganza—Miley Cyrus has surfaced as the latest hot young thing being considered for the leading-lady role.

“They’ve expressed interest in Miley for the part,” a source close to the tween queen said.

A source close to the production further added that Cyrus “is definitely in the mix.”

As it stands, that mix currently includes Hayden Panettiere, Amanda Bynes and Dancing With the Stars pro Julianne Hough, all of whom have auditioned in recent weeks for the part of Ariel Moore, the independent daughter of a preacher man, originated in the 1984 classic by Lori Singer.

One starlet who hasn’t auditioned for the role: Cyrus. Presumably because her singing, dancing and audience-pulling prowess have already been proven.

While Cyrus’ reps had no comment on the potential casting coup, it may be a bit premature to think she’ll sign on the dotted line. Her schedule is booked solid right now.

The Disney star will soon be heading down to Georgia, with production on the adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ as yet unreleased book The Last Song scheduled to begin June 15. And then she’s back to her day job as Hannah Montana.

Footloose begins shooting in March 2010, Paramount says (making the previously announced release date of June 18, 2010, unlikely).

Meanwhile, after more than a month of courtship, the studio has finally locked up Crawford.

As we first reported, the Gossip Girl guy had been in line for the role of small-town scofflaw Ren McCormack since Zac Efron got cold feet and dropped out.

Crawford and another Dancing With the Stars pro, Julianne’s brother Derek Hough, were among those to audition for the role originated by Kevin Bacon.

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Hayden Panettiere slathers up with sunscreen as she enjoys a sunny afternoon on her yacht in Cannes with her boyfriend British TV presenter Steve Jones and a few of their friends. (PS: Let’s discuss those bruises on the butt cheeks of her friend! What in the world!!!)

So does that mean that her boyfriend isn’t her married costar Adrian Pasdar? That was a joke, people.

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Fame

It’s been a while since Hollywood had a bona fide homegrown movie star: they tend to come from places like Missouri or Kentucky, not Studio City. But here’s Chris Pine, 28 years old, native to “the Valley,” and now seen on-screen as the new Captain Kirk in director J. J. Abrams’s young-guns reboot of the original Star Trek.

Pine didn’t slip effortlessly into William Shatner’s double-knits. “There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I’m in a Saturday Night Live skit. One was for Avatar”—James Cameron’s upcoming science-fiction epic—“which was probably the worst audition I ever gave. Another was for 10,000 bc, where I was just, like, on my haunches pretending to be in a loincloth in Burbank.” Pine laughs. “Then the other one was Star Trek. It was all this jargon talk of torpedoes and photons,” which, needless to say, didn’t quite trip off the tongue. Fortunately, he got a second chance seven months later and nailed it.

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Pine, who graduated from U.C. Berkeley, comes from two generations of actors: his father, Robert Pine, has 200-odd television shows to his credit;  his grandmother is B-movie actress Anne Gwynne, who was often seen in horror films. Chris Pine isn’t jaded, but neither is he naïve. “I know where I come from and what I want and why I got into [show business]. I know the reality of it. I just hope that I have longevity in my career.”

His dad is the CHiPs guy! Crazy!

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Looks like the Gosselin fallout has begun.

The Ronald McDonald House canceled an appearance by Kate Gosselin after ticket sales were slow, the charity’s spokeswoman confirms to The Patriot News.

The spokeswoman attributes the low sales to the fact that the event was to be held over Memorial Day weekend, and they did not have enough time to “properly promote” it. Tickets were between $25 and $45.

After Us Weekly exclusively reported Jon was having an affair with a 23-year-old teacher, and was suspicious of his wife’s relationship with her bodyguard, 82 percent of Usmagazine.com readers admitted they wouldn’t tune in for the May 25 season premiere.

Gosselin seemed unfazed by the cancellation while shopping with one of her sextuplets, Alexis, near their $1.1-million home Monday.

“Kate seemed in a good mood today,” a witness tells Us of the mother-daughter duo, who stopped by a local bank, a Kinko’s and the dentist.

On Sunday, the family filmed the sextuplet’s fifth birthday party. It was more than a week after the kids’ actual birthday — mother’s day — in which Kate spent the afternoon tanning instead of with her children.

The birthday party also marked Jon and Kate’s first appearance together in more than two weeks. A witness told Us they hardly interacted and left in separate cars.

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