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Sideshow: Pete Seeger releases 'Forever Young' video

A digital single and music video of the classic Bob Dylan song "Forever Young" is being released Monday by folksinger/activist Pete Seeger to mark the 50th anniversary of Dylan's eponymous first album. Seeger, who is 92, is a mentor of Dylan and

**FILE**Pete Seeger plays his banjo May 5, 2006 in Beacon, N.Y. The 88-year-old banjo-picker has written a song about Joe Stalin, the late Soviet leader that is as scathing as any tune in the folk legend's long career. He told The Associated Press on Friday, Aug. 31, 2007, that the long-gestating song was finally finished this year. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
**FILE**Pete Seeger plays his banjo May 5, 2006 in Beacon, N.Y. The 88-year-old banjo-picker has written a song about Joe Stalin, the late Soviet leader that is as scathing as any tune in the folk legend's long career. He told The Associated Press on Friday, Aug. 31, 2007, that the long-gestating song was finally finished this year. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)Read moreAP
    by Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer | Columnist
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A digital single and music video of the classic Bob Dylan song "Forever Young" is being released Monday by folksinger/activist Pete Seeger to mark the 50th anniversary of Dylan's eponymous first album. Seeger, who is 92, is a mentor of Dylan and his song is being pushed through a grassroots campaign www.ForeverPete.com. The effort is modeled on the successful 2010 fan-based endeavor to get then-88-year-old Betty White to host Saturday Night Live.

Weekend box office

Audiences headed back to school for the update of 21 Jump Street, which opened at No. 1 this weekend at $35 million. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are undercover cops posing as high school students. Dr. Seuss' the Lorax dropped to second. The costly sci-fi movie John Carter dropped sharply to third, and finishing out the top five were Project X and A Thousand Words.

Still rat packing at 86

He has been ailing in recent years, but comedian Jerry Lewis did not turn 86 quietly. He did it with a few laughs, flying to New York from Las Vegas for an hours-long celebration Friday night. It started at Manhattan's 92d Street Y, then continued in Midtown at the Friars Club, where hundreds gathered to sing "Happy Birthday" to Lewis, who added his trademark goofy voice.

Will and Jada kissing

OK, well actually it was courtside at Friday's 76ers-Miami Heat game here at the Wells Fargo Center. Will Smith, 43, and Jada Pinkett-Smith, 40, were "couply and cuddly," says fellow spectator Becky Haring, 22, of Birdsboro, Pa., who sat a few rows away from the famous pair.