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• Movie studios are strapped for cash. How strapped? They're accelerating the practice of renting out the backlots for parties.

• Glee fans (and we know you're out there) will be thrilled to hear that the first 13 episodes of the show aren't even waiting for the end of the season to come to DVD — they'll be out December 29.

• People who want to make their children famous are getting a little help from a bill in California going after companies that scam parents out of large sums of money by taking advantage of their desire to get their kids into acting and modeling.

Stagehands, baseball, and Google, after the jump.

 

• It may not fit with the image of who makes the big bucks in entertainment, but it turns out that good stagehands make a lot of money. How much? This much.

• Google, as you may be hearing, is working on a music service — sort of. I tend to agree with that take from Ars Technica that allowing people to find songs that are already streamed free from other services and listen to snippets of them is a nice feature, but it's more of an enhancement to Google than it is a new service.

• Hey — the Phillies are going to the World Series! Okay, it's only sort of entertainment news, but for those of us who grew up outside Philadelphia, love a guy whose shirt is covered in tobacco juice, and do not like the Yankees, it's very entertaining.