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Screen Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79
03/23/11 Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor, who went from child star to screen siren, died Wednesday in Los Angeles from congestive heart failure. She was 79. Her children were at her side when she died. Taylor had been in Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for about six weeks. Taylor first gained stardom as a child and appeared in more than 50 films. She won Oscars for her performances in "Butterfield 8" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" She was equally famous for extraordinary beauty and her stormy personal life, including eight marriages and a series of physical ailments. In later years, she was a spokeswoman for humanitarian causes, notably AIDS research. That work gained her a special Oscar in 1993.

Syfy Renews Face Off for Season 2
03/18/11 Face Off, the reality competition series featuring special effects make-up artists, has been picked up for a second season, Syfy announced Wednesday. During its first season, Face Off averaged 1.43 million viewers. Casting for the series, which airs its Season 1 finale on Wednesday (10/9c), will begin later this month.

Hey, hey! The Monkees Touring Again
03/08/11 After much internal strife over the past two decades, 3 of 4 of The Monkees are going on a 45th Anniversary Tour. In a significant shift, Tork now takes full responsibility for the backstage problems on the 2001 tour. Peter Tork acknowledges, "I really just behaved inappropriately, honestly. I apologized to them". The three Monkees will bring on other musicians for the tour, but Tork wants to strip it back at points. Founding member Michael Nesmith isn't participating in the tour: His mother invented Liquid Paper and left him with her fortune, leaving him financially secure for life. Two years ago Tork feared that he might never tour again when he was diagnosed with a rare form of head-neck cancer called Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma. In recovery, Tork says, "I'm excruciatingly lucky. I count my blessings every day." Date for the tour will be forthcoming.

Melissa Gilbert and Bruce Boxleitner Split
03/02/11 Melissa Gilbert, 46, has separated from her husband of 16 years, Bruce Boxleitner, 60. Wed in 1995 after a stormy courtship, the couple have one son, Michael, 15, named for Michael Landon, Gilbert's costar, mentor and father figure during her stint (from 1974 to 1983) as Laura Ingalls on TV's "Little House on the Prairie." Gilbert also has a son, Dakota, 21, from her previous marriage to Bo Brinkman; Boxleitner has two sons, ages 30 and 25, from his previous marriage to former actress Kathryn Ogilvy. The family has asked for privacy.

"Two and a Half Men" Over?
02/25/11 In the wake of an incendiary radio interview with "Two and a Half Men" star Charlie Sheen, CBS and Warner Bros. Television said they are ending production on TV's top-rated sitcom for the season. The decision was based on the "totality of Charlie Sheen's statements, conduct and condition," the companies said in a joint statement Thursday. The show's future was not addressed. Production had been suspended in January to allow Sheen to seek rehabilitation.

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