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All-star Nobel peace presenters

Oslo, Norway — Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey will be hosts of the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, honoring the 2004 laureate, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai.

As masters of ceremony for the Dec. 11 concert, Winfrey and Cruise will share the stage with plenty of high-profile entertainment.

Joss Stone, Andrea Bocelli, Diana Krall, Cyndi Lauper and Patti LaBelle are among those scheduled to perform.

The 64-year-old Maathai, Kenya’s deputy environment minister, became the first African woman to win the prize, which was announced Oct. 8. She attended Mount St. Scholastica Academy in Atchison, Kan., in the ’60s.

New friend for ‘Scrubs’

New York — Matthew Perry is sweeping back to NBC, but he won’t be visiting his friend “Joey.”

Instead, Perry will be sitting in the director’s chair and standing in front of the lens as a guest star for the Nov. 23 episode of “Scrubs,” NBC announced recently. The episode will air during “sweeps.” (“Sweeps” is a period four months a year when television ratings are monitored closely to set local advertising rates.)

In the Perry-directed episode, the former “Friends” star will play a man willing to donate one of his kidneys to his sick father — played by Perry’s real-life dad, John Bennett Perry — until complications arise.

The appearance will mark the first time, other than Matt LeBlanc on his spinoff, “Joey,” that a “Friends” principal has returned to NBC. Perry played sarcastic “Friend” Chandler Bing for 10 seasons on the hit sitcom.

Moore rebuffed by university

Del Mar, Calif. — Michael Moore promised to endow a scholarship at California State University, San Marcos, where administrators had canceled his scheduled appearance because of what they called his partisan politics.

The “Fahrenheit 9/11” filmmaker addressed about 10,000 people off-campus Tuesday night at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, promising $5,000 per academic year to a student who “stands up the most to the administration of Cal State San Marcos.”

University president Karen Haynes said she canceled his appearance because the state was prohibited from spending state money on partisan political activity and she believed there wouldn’t be enough time to find a speaker whose opinions could balance Moore’s views. She welcomed him back after the November presidential election.