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Thursday, October 11



Debbie Reynolds Hospitalized for Adverse Reaction to Medication, Cancels Shows A publicist says Debbie Reynolds has been hospitalized and is canceling upcoming appearances after suffering an adverse reaction to medication. Reynolds' publicist Kevin Sasaki says the singer-actress was hospitalized in Los Angeles after having the bad reaction. She is canceling shows and appearances through the end of the year. Reynolds is famous for her role in "Singin' in the Rain" and earned an Oscar nomination for her gutsy character in "The Unsinkable Molly Brown." The 80-year-old performs numerous shows and makes appearances each year. She is scheduled to appear on a float promoting pet adoption in the upcoming Rose Parade. Last year, Reynolds sold her collection of film memorabilia, including dresses worn by Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, for nearly $23 million.


Sarah Brightman books trip to space, and she may perform
Sarah Brightman, beloved by audiences and renowned for her voice's three-octave range, rocketed to fame more than two decades ago as the heroine of "The Phantom of the Opera." Now the world's biggest-selling soprano is heading to outer space. On Wednesday, Brightman told a news conference in Moscow that she has booked a trip to the International Space Station. Brightman, who had a hit in 1978 with "I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper" and has sold more than 30 million records, will become the first recording artist in space. The British singer said that after touring the world in 2013 for her new album, "Dreamchaser," she will spend six months in Russia's Star City cosmonaut training center.

Lindsay Lohan and Dina Lohan Dispute Brings Police to Long Island Home

Police were called to Lohan's childhood home in Mineola, N.Y. on Wednesday morning after the actress was involved in an altercation with her mother, Dina. "At 8:06 a.m. [police] got a call for a domestic disturbance. There had been some sort of verbal dispute between Lindsay and her mother that took place in a limo that was coming from New York City," a spokesperson for the Nassau County Police Department says. "There were no arrests, no police action. It just goes down as a domestic incident. That is that – we don't have any [injuries or damage]." So what happened in the limo? A source said "At some point on the way home [from New York City], [Lindsay] wanted to get out of the car and the limo driver wouldn't let her out, so she called her father, who called 911." The 50-year-old's actress daughter, Lindsay Lohan, called her father, Michael Lohan, after leaving a New York nightclub around 4 a.m. on Oct. 10. The mother-daughter duo were in a limo en route to Dina's home in Long Island when Lindsay phoned her dad in a desperate plea for help. "She's throwing your f---ing kids out and she's threatening everyone in the car," a hysterical Lindsay shouted. "She's calling the cops on me!"Calling her mother "delusional," a sobbing Lindsay said the fight was about the $40,000 she lent her mother "because she needs to keep her house."  "I was like, 'Give me money back! Give me my 40 grand back that I just gave you," the "Liz & Dick" star told her father, with whom she's been estranged in the past. "I asked her to give it back and she's like, 'You're sick. You don't give me anything. Your father doesn't do anything for child support.'" The former child star later accused her mother of being "on cocaine." "I have to go back to the house because I have to leave tomorrow. I have to work," Lindsay wailed. "I'm supposed to go home and I'm afraid she's going to do the same s--- that I was describing to you, arrest me like she did to you. ... She has been out all night, Dad." After they arrived in Long Island, law enforcement officials responded to a domestic violence call. A report was filed but no arrests were made.
 Mentalist Star Owain Yeoman Is Engaged| Stars and Pets, Engagements, Los Angeles, The Mentalist, Owain Yeoman The Mentalist's Owain Yeoman and his girlfriend, jewelry designer Gigi Yallouz, are engaged.  "We are both thrilled to be engaged and set to marry in Malibu in June 2013," Yeoman, 34, says. "I proposed at home by making a candlelit path of rose petals to where Cash was holding a sign in his mouth saying 'Will You Marry Him?' " Yeoman says, laughing. "It took me quite some time to arrange before he understood that he wasn't supposed to eat the sign!" This is the second marriage for Yeoman, who was previously married to actress Lucy Davis.


Jason Aldean Says 'Me and My Family Are Okay' After Photo Scandal

The dust has settled on Jason Aldean's photo scandal, and the country singer is speaking out about the aftermath. The PEOPLE Country cover star, 35 – who apologized last week after being photographed getting rather cozy with American Idol contestant Brittany Kerr – says that he's primarily embarrassed about the ordeal, but he's grateful for the support he's received. "The main thing is that me and my family are okay, and everything's good there," Aldean says. Aldean has been married to his high school sweetheart Jessica Ussery since 2001 and has two daughters Keeley, 9, and Kendyl, 5
Lachey — who recently teamed up with Tide for their Show Us Your Colors football campaign — posed for a photo with Camden in matching Cincinnati Bengals gear. “I’m an avid, passionate, lifelong Bengals fan, so this was kind of a no-brainer for me,” Nick says. “Having a new son and being able to pass on my passion for my hometown team to him is great. I’m glad I have a son because in the middle of a great sports season, I can share those big moments with him. If I had a daughter, she’d probably be doing the same thing, but she’d probably resent me a little more for it.” Through Tide’s photo sweepstakes, football fans can share photos documenting a time they were most proud to wear their team’s colors, the way Nick and Camden took their special picture. Photos can be uploaded through Nov. 30 for a chance to win an all expense-paid trip for two to Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans.


Romney agrees to stop sharing story about Glen Doherty

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has agreed to stop sharing a story about his encounter with Winchester Navy SEAL Glen Doherty who was killed in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya after Doherty’s mother said she was upset Romney was using the story for his political agenda. Glen Doherty was one of four Americans killed in the September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate. “I met some remarkable people, one of whom was a former navy seal. I just learned a few days ago that he was one of the two former navy seals killed in Benghazi. It broke my heart,” Romney said to a crowd on the campaign trail. Romney met Doherty at a Christmas party. During a radio show interview, Doherty’s friend recounted a different version of Romney’s meeting with Doherty. “He actually approached him, using this private gathering as basically a political venture to further his image. And Glen just believed it to be very insincere and stale,” said Elf Ellefsen, Doherty’s friend. "I don't trust Romney. He shouldn't make my son's death part of his political agenda. It's wrong to use these brave young men, who wanted freedom for all, to degrade Obama,” said Barbara Doherty, Glen’s mother.


Soul Asylum founder quits band
Soul Asylum co-founder Dan Murphy has quit the band after three decades. The guitarist, who formed the group with singer Dave Pirner and the late Karl Mueller in the early 1980s, announced his decision on the band's website on Tuesday, revealing he is "looking forward to a quieter life with family and friends." He writes, "To survive in the game of music in this current incarnation of digital downloads, short attention spans, tabloid-style press wrought with desperate headline grabbing antics, it occurs to me that one needs an unhealthy and combustive internal combination of two seemingly distant attributes -- naivety and swagger. I no longer have either." He adds he is "leaving with great admiration and respect for David Pirner, whom I felt like I grew up with and who provided me and all of you with so many memorable musical moments." Soul Asylum recently released their first album in six years, "Delayed Reaction."


NBC to Air Mockingbird Lane Pilot as Standalone Halloween Special
Mockingbird Lane, the pilot which was to be the premiere of NBC’s rebooted Munsters series, instead will air as a Halloween special. Rumors about the potential series’ demise have been around for weeks; as recently as Wednesday, writer/producer Bryan Fuller took to Twitter to say the project still had a pulse. But Fuller and director Bryan Singer had different visions for the $10 million pilot, and in the end, the network didn’t love the finished product. Complicating matters, Fuller is now committed to stewarding NBC’s midseason drama Hannibal, as well. However, according to an insider, if the special does well in the ratings NBC may go ahead and order it to series. NBC has billed Mockingbird Lane as “a visually spectacular one-hour drama” based on the 1960s sitcom. It stars Jerry O’Connell as Herman Munster, Portia de Rossi as his wife Lily and Eddie Izzard as Grandpa.


TV NEWS
"The Voice" has a special treat for its fans in the days leading up to Halloween. NBC's hit singing competition has added another hour to its Oct. 30 episode, making for four hours of the show that week, with the inclusion of the two-hour Monday episode that week.
Parks and Recreation Christie Brinkley Parks and Recreation has landed the famed supermodel herself to portray Jerry’s oft-mentioned but never-before-seen wife Gayle. Brinkley — whose previous acting credits include Jack and Jill and Ugly Betty — will appear in Season 5′s ninth episode, titled “Ron and Diane.”


Another Shepherd sister is coming out of the woodwork on Grey’s Anatomy. Party of Five vet Neve Campbell is set to appear in multiple episodes of ABC’s long-running medical drama as one of Derek’s (Patrick Dempsey) four sisters. It’s not clear which sibling Campbell will play, but we can safely rule out Amelia (currently played by Caterina Scorsone on Private Practice) and Nancy (previously played by Embeth Davitz). That leaves Kathleen the psychiatrist or unnamed Sister No. 4. The latest member of the Shepherd clan arrives during a particularly tumultuous time in Derek’s life. The severe hand injury he sustained in last May’s plane crash has brought his storied surgical career to a standstill.


A producer behind hit 1989 movie "Steel Magnolias" has launched legal action over a new TV adaptation of the drama, insisting she is owed a fee and a credit. Victoria L. White, who acted as executive producer on the original hit film starring Julia Roberts, Sally Field and Dolly Parton, filed a suit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday over the Lifetime TV movie, which stars Queen Latifah. White alleges she is owed a producer credit and a fee of $5,000 per episode, plus a $10,000 bonus and a share of the net profits of any new reboot, due to an agreement stemming from the 1992 TV remake of the original film.


This is a kind of New Normal we can get used to: White Collar leading man Matt Bomer will guest star on the NBC comedy.


NBC News on Wednesday appointed Geist to be a host of the 9 a.m. hour of the "Today" show, where he joins Al Roker and Natalie Morales. Geist has been a regular on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and host of that network's 5:30 a.m. Eastern newscast, "Way Too Early." He'll turn over the early newscast to another host, but he will still appear on the 6 a.m. hour of "Morning Joe." The new job begins Nov. 12. Geist says he's looking forward to joining the freewheeling discussion of the day that tops the third hour of "Today."


The ensemble for American Horror Story: Asylum continues to get bigger, and better. The latest addition to the FX spookfest, which opens its second chapter next Wednesday: British actor Ian McShane, who during his run on HBO’s Deadwood won a Golden Globe and earned an Emmy nomination.


Law & Order vet and upcoming Smash guest star Jesse L. Martin has snagged one of the lead roles in NBC’s soapy drama pilot The Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives. Wives, which also stars Off the Map‘s Martin Henderson, Entourage‘s Perrey Reeves and Soul Food‘s Nicole Ari Parker, focuses on three suburban couples affected by a murder.


Lifetime's hit reality show "Dance Moms" has been renewed for a third season. The reality show will return for 26 more episodes next year, thanks to the rising popularity of the show itself and its controversial lead instructor, Abby Lee Miller. The show, which debuted in 2011, follows the Pittsburgh, Penn., teacher, as she runs a competitive dance school filled with eager young students and their no-nonsense mothers.


Young Modern Family star Nolan Gould is all set for college - at 13. The studious teenager graduated high school this past summer and now he's seeking out online college courses so he can continue his education. He explains, "Over the summer I did a lot of studying and I took an exam and tested at high school, so I'm hopefully going to go on and do some online community college courses." But the child star, who is also an accomplished musician, is hoping his successes aren't coming too soon. He tells U.S. chat show host Ellen DeGeneres, "In my limo (on the way to the Emmys) I was like, 'I'm 13, this is my third time at the Emmys... What am I supposed to do with the rest of my life? It's like it's all downhill from now."














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