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From The Associated Press

Dolly Parton visited the woods overlooking Douglas Lake in Tennessee near the Great Smoky Mountains in designer buckskins and 4-inch heels. But she knew she wasn’t the star of this show. It was a young American bald eagle. The eagle was blown from its nest several weeks ago in Florida. On Thursday, it was returned to the wild by the American Eagle Foundation, which is based at the 62-year-old singer’s Dollywood theme park.

Some 90 eagles have been released from the same spot since the 1990s. But this marked the first time that their country music benefactor had seen it in person.

CBS is axing its new reality show “Secret Talents of the Stars” after only one episode. The first airing Wednesday had former “Star Trek” actor George Takei singing “On the Road Again.” Only 4.6 million people tuned in, and thousands tuned away as the hour continued. The reality show also had Clint Black doing standup comedy and Mya tap-dancing.

Mischa Barton, 22, has pleaded no contest to drunken driving for a December arrest in West Hollywood. The former star of TV’s “The O.C.” wasn’t present in a Beverly Hills courtroom Thursday as her lawyer entered no-contest pleas on her behalf to misdemeanor driving under the influence and driving without a license.