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POP/ROCK

Posthumous Aaliyah Album in the Works

Aaliyah fans will soon be able to hear the final tracks the 22-year-old R&B; singer recorded before she died in a plane crash 14 months ago.

A posthumous album, still untitled, will include several songs she’d finished along with some previously released recordings, according to a spokeswoman for Blackground Records, which will release the album “probably in late November.”

The charter jet Aaliyah was aboard crashed shortly after takeoff in the Bahamas, where she and her crew had been on a video shoot. The singer and seven others died. She will be the subject of a musical salute called “Where My Girls At” featuring Missy Elliott, Eve, Tweet and others on Oct. 22 at a New York benefit concert for the Step-Up Women’s Network.

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Dylan Pays Tribute to Ailing Zevon

Bob Dylan started his fall tour Friday and gave a salute to fellow singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, who has inoperable lung cancer, by adding three Zevon songs to his set list.

Dylan performed Zevon’s “Accidentally Like a Martyr,” “Boom Boom Mancini” and “Mutineer” in Seattle on Friday, and the following night, in Eugene, Ore., he included “Martyr,” “Mutineer” and “Lawyers, Guns and Money.”

Dylan and Zevon reportedly met when Dylan played harmonica on “The Factory” for Zevon’s 1987 album “Sentimental Hygiene.”

On the new tour, which includes three sold-out shows at the Wiltern Theatre starting Oct. 15, Dylan also has been playing piano for a significant portion of the evening and has added a version of the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar.”

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Trove of Unseen Beatles Photographs Discovered

An estimated 500 previously unseen, 1960s photos of the Beatles have been found in the archives of a university in Scotland--many taken during the making of their film “Help!”

The London Telegraph reports that the photos were shot by Michael Peto, a Hungarian photojournalist who died in 1970. His archive of 130,000 negatives was given to Dundee University in 1971 by his stepson, Michael Fodor, who had been a student there.

The negatives had languished unseen for most of that time, but university officials discovered them while going through the collection to create an Internet database of photographic material.

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‘Puppetry’ Performers

Will Talk With Leno

It will be all talk but no action when the performers from the stage hit “Puppetry of the Penis” appear Wednesday on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.”

Although a newspaper ad suggests that some of the show’s “genital origami” will be seen on the late-night program, an NBC spokeswoman said that the performers from the current production at the Coronet Theatre in L.A. will only discuss the play.

That will avoid the a repeat of what happened when “Puppetry of the Penis” cast members Simon Morley and David Friend appeared on a live morning news show on San Francisco’s KRON-TV last Friday to discuss the show’s upcoming engagement there. A cameraman accidentally shot Friend from the waist down rather than from the waist up.

A station spokesman said the shot lasted “less than a second,” and that there were only a few calls and e-mails from viewers complaining.

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RADIO

‘Morning Edition’

Commissions a Comedy

There’s no telling what the news will be come December, but National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” is planning to inject some levity in any case. The producers have commissioned screenwriter-playwright Peter Ackerman to write a five-part comedy that will be broadcast during the program the week of Dec. 16.

The production is called “I’d Rather Eat Pants” and deals with two old folks heading west to find fame. It will be produced for NPR by L.A. Theatre Works, a local company that regularly stages plays for public radio. No casting yet.

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PEOPLE

Actors’ Child Swallows

Part of Ecstasy Tablet

The 2-year-old daughter of actors Jude Law and Sadie Frost spent Saturday night in the hospital after swallowing part of an Ecstasy tablet at a children’s party, police said Monday.

Scotland Yard spokesman Nick Jordan said the girl was attending a party Saturday at Soho House, a popular club in London’s West End that had been used the previous night as a bar and nightclub.

Jordan said the mother realized the girl had something in her mouth and managed to remove half of it before the child could swallow it, then Frost called an ambulance. The toddler was released Sunday morning, he said, adding that there was no issue of neglect and that police had no plans to take action against the parents.

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QUICK TAKES

Geoffrey Rush, who won an Academy Award for “Shine,” has signed to play the title role in “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers,” a movie for HBO about the comedic actor.... Ed O’Neill, former star of “Married ... With Children,” will play Joe Friday in ABC’s remake of the police drama “Dragnet.” He replaces Danny Huston, who has left the show.... And speaking of cops, Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett are paired as fellow officers in “Hollywood Homicide,” an action-comedy now before the cameras here.