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Getting soapy with the stars.

Fans of The Young and the Restless can ask its stars the burning questions at a no-holds barred question-and-

answer session Saturday at Bally's in Atlantic City. The resort is hosting Soap Opera Weekend, when fans can ask questions beginning at 11 a.m. with Greg Rikaart (Kevin Fisher), noon with Stephen Nichols (Tucker McCall), 1 p.m. with Michelle Stafford (Phyllis Newman), and 2 p.m. with Michael Muhney (Adam Newman).

Thomas Dolby.

The British synth-pop icon launched his return last year with a passion - or rather, several passions. First there was a transmedia game, The Floating City, then a corresponding album, A Map of the Floating City. Recorded in a solar-powered studio in a lifeboat that sits on his lawn in England, the new album, Dolby says, is a "travelogue across three imaginary continents" that represents his own journey from England to the United States and his recent return to his childhood home of East Anglia on the North Sea. Working with musicians such as Mark Knopfler, Imogen Heap, and Regina Spektor, Dolby says the final product sounds "rather organic and not particularly electronic, with the story itself dictating the idiom of the music."

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New this week: The Hunger Games

**1/2 (out of four stars) Jennifer Lawrence stars as the bow-and-arrow-toting, furrowed-browed heroine of Suzanne Collins' young-adult novel about a dystopian society's televised spectacle, in which 12 boys and 12 girls battle until just one remains. The big-budget, tonally odd adaptation opts for a Vegas-meets- Wizard of Oz production design, as Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen and the other "tributes" prep for their lethal showdown amid the extravagant glitz of the Capitol. And then they go into the woods, and start the killing.

PG-13

(violence, adult themes)