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Yvonne Seggerman, managing director of Pawtucket’s Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre, has added another post to her portfolio. She has just accepted the additional job of executive director of the Pawtucket Armory Association. The Armory, at 172 Exchange St., houses both The Gamm and the Jacqueline M. Walsh School for the Performing and Visual Arts.

Seggerman, once director of sales and marketing for Trinity Rep and development director for WaterFire, has been running The Gamm for the past five years. During her watch, the non-profit’s budget has grown by 600 percent and subscriptions have gone from 94 to more than 1,850.

Seggerman is a Los Angeles native who now lives in Cumberland.

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It’s good to be Tina Fey.

The bespectacled comedian is not only driving Saturday Night Live ratings with her dead-on Sarah Palin impersonations but she just won two Emmys (Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actress) for 30 Rock and clinched a reported $5-million-plus book deal. Fey, 38, has signed with publisher the Little, Brown Book Group. According to New York gossip column Page Six, the book will not be Fey’s memoir, but will be “non-fiction humor” to fit in with the star’s performance style on Saturday Night Live. No release date has been set.

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Darius Rucker’s breakthrough as a country artist makes him historic. Rucker, best known as the lead vocalist of the pop group Hootie & the Blowfish, is officially the first successful black country singer since Charley Pride emerged in 1966. Rucker’s debut single Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It is the first No. 1 country hit by a black artist since Pride’s Night Games reached the pinnacle in 1983. That’s 25 years.