By: Valerie Milano – Pasadena, CA (Hollywood Today) 4-3-12

We all watched Nick & Jessica, Kris & Kim and now, as if we haven’t seen enough celebrity wedding/reality television, WEtv rolls out “Shannen Says” on April 10 where we can witness the return of Shannen Doherty as she plans her nuptials to celeb photographer Kurt Iswarienko.

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By: Valerie Milano (Hollywood Today) 3/27/12

Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., creator of the new PBS series Finding Your Roots was first intrigued by the question of ancestry and family history in 1960 at the age of nine. After viewing the burial of his grandfather, who was affectionately referred to as Casper because of his white skin, “I was standing there at his open casket, holding my father’s hand, and looking at my grandfather, and I was captivated by how white he was and where that whiteness came from.” The seed was planted for young Gates to explore the history of his own genealogy and ultimately the genealogy of American people and the bloodlines that bind us all.

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By: Valerie Milano (Hollywood Today) 3-26-12

This show, which aired 3/25/12, is a TLC reality series about Neicy Nash, comedienne and actress and her newly-blended family. She explains that her new family is like a sitcom, “My house is full of antics, mayhem, foolishness, carrying on, cutting up, shucking and jiving, and I have that whether cameras are there or not” said Neicy @ the TCA Summer press tour.

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By: Valerie Milano – Los Angeles, CA (Hollywood Today) 3-19-12

On March 13th Project Ethos featured music, fashion and art during Fashion Week in LA last week at the Avalon Hollywood. Doors opened to the invitation-only meet and greet where guests observed sculptures, paintings and live installations before the 1200+ guests were seated for the first runway show of the night. The lines were huge and the parking a huge problem as well. Guest lists weren’t showing in a timely manner. After waiting 2 hours in front, still had to move to another line.

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By: Valerie Milano and Lorraine Chambers – ng Beach, CA (Hollywood Today) 3-18-12

Sherri Shepherd is a very busy mom/actress/wife who is a co-host of
The View and this week on March 19th debuts on Dancing With The Stars
with dancer Val Chmerkovskiy. Yet this energetic down to earth dynamic
diva is a comic at heart and she stays connected with her longtime
comedian/actress girlfriend Carlease Burke who hosts the monthly
Laugh-A-Latte comedy show at Hot Java Cafe in Long Beach. So where
does Sherri decide to go on St. Patrick’s night with her husband plus
dance partner Val and his bodyguard just two days before showtime??
Yes to Long Beach on a cold wet rainy night. Now that is a true
girlfriend. It was a packed house and a special night not just for the
audience but for the four recent graduates from Carlease Burke’s Laugh
Academy course in Long Beach and our HollywoodToday.net writer
Lorraine Chambers was one of them. A special unique monthly onstage
guest for the whole show is deaf translator Tom “Hot Fingers’ O’Malley
who brings the most ethnic on the money funny aspect to each comic’s
performance while wowing and mesmerizing both the hearing guests and
the non hearing guests in the front two rows. Host Carlease is a sign
language expert as well.

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By: Valerie Milano (Hollywood Today) 3-18-21

HBO released the statement: “It is with heartbreak that executive producers David Milch and Michael Mann together with HBO have decided to cease all future production on the series “Luck.”

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