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In Dreams, Katy Perry walks anew

Her California Dreams world tour, a critical and commercial hit since its Feb. 20 launch overseas, opens a U.S. run in Atlanta tonight. A few days earlier, Perry isn't just fine-tuning this fanciful feast of pop hits, whimsical costumes, dancing gingerbread men, fireworks, confectionery sets and candy smell-o-vision. She's revamping it.

"It has room to grow," she says. "A typical tour is three months, but we're going to the end of November. It's nice to be able to expand and get out of the same same same. That's the fun thing about success. I can take advantage of it. Now I can say, 'I want a machine that simulates the whipped-cream boobs from the California Gurls video.' I just want to keep things fresh, keep people on their toes and keep myself excited."

Perry, 26, certainly kept crowds excited in Europe, Australia and Asia. London's The Daily Telegraph dubbed the show "a megawatt jukebox musical." The Guardian 's take: "For all her gimlet-eyed calculation, Perry packs more wit and charisma into her eyelash extensions than most pop stars manage in a career. … (She) makes you actually believe in the ridiculous transformative spangle of pop music all over again."

That Perry wants to recalibrate a box-office smash is testament to her moxie and enterprise. She compares it to the drive that went into last year's Teenage Dream , which sold 1.5 million copies, spawned sales of 10.2 million digital tracks and ended debate that 2008 debut One of the Boys was a fluke driven by sassy sensation I Kissed a Girl.

"I wasn't afraid to make the second record," she says. "I went with my gut and reconnected with the reasons I started in music: the love, the passion, the need to create. The focus now is the live show and making it as big an event as the album has been.

"I'm always trying to keep myself entertained, so I'm all over the map," Perry says. "I'm looking for what's beyond the trend. I have a nose for things like that."

Sniffling, she tears a foot of toilet paper from the roll in her hand.

"This is for my nose," she says with a feeble grin. No tissue could be found in the cavernous hall. "I feel like someone has taken me by my ankles and shaken me upside down.

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David Spade plays Joe, whose search for his family has him hittin' the road and keepin' it real with every lowlife he meets, including a sweet hottie (Brittany Daniel), a janitor (Christopher Walken), and a pychotic cannibal (Brian Thompson) with whom he has a brief interlude. Through it all, Joe keeps on truckin' . . . all the way to L.A., where a shock jock DJ (Dennis Miller) targets Joe as the butt of his show. But Joe's plucky spirit encourages listeners to cheer him on and help him find a better family than the one he thought he wanted. Rock on!

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