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On TV Tonight April 3

CBS

  • NCIS (repeat)
  • NCIS: LOS ANGELES (repeat)
  • UNFORGETTABLE (repeat)

NBC

  • THE BIGGEST LOSER – The six remaining contestants receive a video message from first lady Michelle Obama inviting them to the White House.
  • THE VOICE – Four vocalists are sent home.
  • FASHION STAR – The designers must create a high end garment and a mass market item; while one designer excels, another faces a week without a bid from retailers.

FOX

  • RAISING HOPE – Virginia convinces Jimmy that Sabrina is doing more than school work with her new study partner.
  • RAISING HOPE (repeat)
  • NEW GIRL – When Jesse learns Cece has been keeping a secret, their friendship is put to the test; Nick asks Schimdt for dating advice.
  • BREAKING IN – When Oz learns Molly has a crush on him, he turns to Cash for advice on driving off women.

ABC

  • DANCING WITH THE STARS – Encore Performance.
  • DANCING WITH THE STARS – The couples face elimination; performances by Seal and Rascal Flatts.
  • BODY OF PROOF – As more and more people fall ill and die, the team must figure out how to treat the virus and who is spreading it.

CW

  • 90210 (repeat)
  • RINGER – Siobhan overhears when Bridget accuses Henry of murder; Catherine tries to get closer to Andrew.

BRAVO

  • THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ORANGE COUNTY – Vicki finds out about Briana’s health; Alexis gets her nose cast removed.
  • TABATHA TAKES OVER – (finale) Tabatha help Dianne Bennett with her failing Bed and Breakfast that lacks style and doesn’t even serve breakfast.

FX

  • JUSTIFIED – Raylan closes in on an ever more unpredictable Quarles; Boyd enters into an alliance with Dickie Bennett.

April 3 Birthdays

  • Alec Baldwin (actor, 30 RockThe CoolerThe Hunt For Red October) (54)
  • Doris Day (actress, Calamity JanePlease Don’t Eat The Daisies; trademark song “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera),” which she introduced in the 1956 film The Man Who Knew Too Much) (90)
  • Jane Goodall (anthropologist, known for her work with African chimpanzees) (78)
  • Marsha Mason (actress, Cinderella Liberty, wife of Neil Simon) (70)
  • Eddie Murphy (comedian and actor, Daddy Day CareTrading PlacesDr. DoolittleBeverly Hills CopComing To America) (51)
  • Wayne Newton (singer) (70)
  • David Hyde Pierce (actor, Frasier‘s Dr. Niles Crane) (53)
  • Jennie Garth (actress, Kelly on Beverly Hills, 90210) (40)
  • Amanda Bynes (actress, What A Girl WantsShe’s the Man, Hairspray) (26)
  • Aries Spears (actor and comedian, Mad TV) (37)
  • Sebastian Bach (rock star, Skid Row) (44)
  • Richard Thompson (singer-songwriter) (63)
  • Tony Orlando (singer, “Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree,” “Knock Three Times”) (68)
  • Matthew Goode (actor, Match Point, A Single Man, Leap Year, Watchmen) (34)

April 3 in History

1865, Union forces occupied the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War.
1948, President Harry Truman signed the Marshall Plan, which gave over $12 billion in aid to European countries recovering after World War II, before ending in 1952.
1953TV Guide first appeared on newsstands, selling for 15 cents. The first cover was of Desi Jr., the son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
1968, less than 24 hours before he was assassinated, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous “Mountaintop” speech to a rally of striking sanitation workers.
1968, North Vietnam agreed to meet with U.S. representatives to set up preliminary peace talks.
1969Jim Morrison of The Doors surrendered to authorities in Los Angeles to answer to indecent exposure charges filed against him following a Miami concert at which he allegedly showed his genitals.
1975President Ford said the rest of the world should not regard losses in South Vietnam as a sign that American commitments would not be fulfilled elsewhere.
1979Jane M. Byrne was elected mayor of Chicago, defeating Republican Wallace D. Johnson.
1985, The landmark Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood closed after 56 years in business.
1987, Stock prices rocketed on Wall Street as the Dow Jones industrial average soared 69.89 points, ending the day at a record 2390.34.
1989, The University Of Michigan Wolverines won the NCAA championship by defeating Seton Hall in overtime, 80-to-79.
1990, A delegation from the rebellious republic of Lithuania met with an adviser to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
1990, Jazz singer Sarah Vaughan died in suburban Los Angeles at age 66.
1991, The U.N. Security Council adopted a Gulf War truce resolution demanding that Iraq abolish weapons of mass destruction, renounce terrorism and pay reparations.
1995, Former United Way Of America President William Aramony was convicted in Alexandria, Virginia, of 25 counts of fraud for stealing nearly $600,000 from the nation’s biggest charity.
1996, An Air Force jetliner carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and American business executives crashed in Croatia, killing all 35 people aboard.
1996, the FBI raided a cabin near Lincoln, Montana, and arrested former college professor Theodore Kaczynski, accusing him of being the Unabomber, whose mail bombs had killed three people and injured 23 others since the 1970s.
1996, Former Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, the first black man elected mayor of a major U.S. city, died at age 68.
1999, NATO missiles struck downtown Belgrade for the first time, destroying the headquarters of security forces accused of waging a campaign against Kosovo Albanians.
2000, A federal judge in Washington ruled that Microsoft Corporation had violated U.S. antitrust laws by keeping “an oppressive thumb” on competitors during the race to link Americans to the Internet.

April 3 Entertainment News

BRUCE WILLIS WELCOMES FOURTH DAUGHTER: Bruce Willis will continue to be surrounded by women. The actor’s wife Emma Heming gave birth to the couple’s first child on Sunday (April 1st), a daughter named Mabel Ray Willis. That makes four girls for Bruce, who has three daughters with ex-wife Demi Moore. A rep told People magazine, “[They] are overjoyed about the newest member of their family. Both mother and baby are healthy and doing beautifully.”

EVA LONGORIA SPOTTED WITH EX: Eva Longoria and Eduardo Cruz reportedly aren’t quite history. Although news of their split was recently reported, the two were photographed on an affectionate date over the weekend. A witness told Us Weekly, “Eva and Eduardo were seated together and deep in conversation. They looked like there is still a spark there.” When the split was announced last month, insiders said of the couple, “They kept trying to make it work, but it didn’t.”

‘COMMUNITY’ STAFFERS SIDE WITH CHEVY CHASE: Staff members on the set of Community are reportedly siding with Chevy Chase in his feud with show creator Dan Harmon. TMZ reported that Harmon led an expletive-filled chant directed at Chevy during the show’s wrap party after an on-set dispute. A show source told TMZ, “What Dan did was embarrassing and left a sour taste in all of our mouths . . . so low class. The staff was not pissed at Chevy . . . we’re pissed at Dan. We all hope Chevy comes back next season.”

JALEEL WHITE REPORTEDLY FLIPPED OUT DURING ‘DWTS’ REHEARSAL: Jaleel White reportedly got into a “heated confrontation” with his partner Kym Johnson and her fellow pro Mark Ballas during rehearsals for Dancing With the Stars last week. Us Weekly reported that the actor flipped out after Johnson complained that she was in pain from him stepping on her foot. Insiders say that Ballas then confronted White and “producers stepped in and broke it up before it got physical.”

MEAGAN GOOD ENGAGED: Meagan Good is reportedly engaged. TMZ.com reported that the Californication actress will wed movie executive DeVon Franklin, who popped the question in March.

April 2 in History

1513Juan Ponce De Leon discovered Florida, landing in what is now St. Augustine.
1792, Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized establishment of the U.S. Mint. The denominations of the coins to be minted were the $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle, and $2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins, and dollar, half-dollar, quarter, dime and half-dime silver coins.
1917Jeannette Pickering Rankin, the first woman ever elected to Congress, was seated as a representative from Montana.
1917, during World War I, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, “The world must be made safe for democracy.”
1931, a 17-year-old girl struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1962The Tonight Show debuted on NBC with a succession of guest hosts.
1982, several thousand Argentinean troops seized the disputed Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic from Britain. After a military response, Britain got the islands back in June.
1992, mob boss John Gotti was convicted in New York of murder and racketeering. He was later sentenced to life in prison.
1995, Members of the extremist group Hamas accidentally set off a bomb that tore through their hideout in the Gaza Strip, killing six people.
1996, A federal appeals court rejected New York state laws banning doctor-assisted suicide, saying it would be discriminatory to let people disconnect life support systems while refusing to let others end their lives with medication.
1997, The White House released documents showing how eager it had been to exploit the money-drawing powers of President Clinton and Vice President Gore during the 1996 campaign while coordinating with the Democratic Party’s fund-raising machine.
1998, Shaking their fists in rage, thousands of mourners marched in a funeral procession in the West Bank for a top Hamas bombmaker hailed by Palestinians as a martyr and condemned by Israel as a terrorist.
1999, The Labor Department reported that the nation’s unemployment rate fell to a 29-year low of 4.2 percent.
2000, More than 600 people set out on a five-day, 120-mile protest march to Columbia, South Carolina, to urge state lawmakers to move the Confederate flag from the Statehouse dome.
2000, Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi suffered a debilitating stroke. He died less than two months later.
2000, Connecticut won its second women’s NCAA national championship with a 71-to-52 victory over Tennessee.
2001President Bush demanded that China promptly return a U.S. spy plane and its crew members. The plane had made an emergency landing in China after colliding with a Chinese fighter.

 

Birthdays April 2

  • Emmylou Harris (country singer) (65)
  • Christopher Meloni (actor, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Oz) (51)
  • Ron Palillo (actor, Arnold Horshack of Welcome Back Kotter) (63)
  • Linda Hunt (actress, The Year Of Living DangerouslyThe Practice) (67)
  • Buddy Jewell (country star) (51)
  • Larry Coryell (jazz guitarist) (69)
  • Rodney King (was awarded $3.8 million because of the use of excessive force by Los Angeles police officers when arrested in 1991) (47)
  • Leon Russell (singer-pianist) (70)
  • Dr Demento (radio personality) (71)
  • Jesse Carmichael (keyboardist, Maroon 5) (33)
  • Adam Rodriguez (actor, CSI: Miami, Roswell) (37)
  • Michael Fassbender (actor, Shame, X-Men: First Class, Jane Eyre, A Dangerous Method, Inglorious Basterds, Band of Brothers, 300, Jonah Hex) (35)

Entertainment News April 2

BOX-OFFICE REPORT

Movie-goers are still eating up tickets to The Hunger Games. The blockbuster topped the box office for a second straight weekend with $61.1 million. It’s made $251 million in 10 days and now is the top-grossing film of the year. 

  • The fantasy sequel Wrath of the Titans opened in second with $34.2 million. 
  • Mirror Mirror, starring Julia Roberts and Lily Collins, debuted in third with $19 million. 
  • 21 Jump Street dropped from second to fourth with $15 million. 
  • The Lorax also fell two spots, landing in fifth with $8 million. It’s grossed $189.6 million. 
  • The controversial documentary Bully opened with $115,000 at only five locations over the weekend. That’s an average of $23,000 per location — the strongest opening of any documentary in 2012. 


SELENA GOMEZ REIGNS AT KIDS CHOICE AWARDS (audio)

Selena Gomez was the big winner at Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards Saturday night — taking home orange blimps for both favorite TV actress and female singer. It’s the second consecutive year the Wizards of Waverly Place star has been named favorite actress. Her boyfriend, Justin Bieber, was named favorite male singer.

Other winners included Adam Sandler (favorite movie actor), Kristen Stewart (favorite movie actress) and Katy Perry (for favorite voice in an animated movie for Smurfs).

As usual, the slime flowed freely during the telecast. Halle Berry was the first to be hit. Other victims included Taylor LautnerGlee star Chris Colfer and the Bieb, who closed out the show by getting drenched along with host Will Smith.

OCTOMOM ON THE DOLE

Octomom Nadya Suleman is now being supported by taxpayers.

The mother of 14 has gone on gone on welfare and is getting $2,000 a month for food from the State of California.

In 2010, a year after giving birth to octuplets, Nadya vowed never to go on welfare, saying she refused to become “a self-fulfilling prophecy” by accepting government assistance. A family of 15 needs to make less than $119,000 a year to qualify for benefits. Nadya, who was recently paid $8000 to pose topless in a British magazine, says since the welfare news broke she’s been receiving death threats.

KEITH OLBERMANN PLANS TO SUE FORMER BOSSES AT CURRENT

Keith Olbermann is not taking his ouster from Current TV lying down.

The talking head tells TMZ he’s “furious” with Current co-founder Al Gore for firing him from Countdown and plans to file a lawsuit against the cable channel. Keith says, “The truth of the ethics of Mr. Gore and [co-founder] MrHyatt will come out.” Earlier, Al released a statement claiming Keith was disrespectful and disloyal to viewers.

Keith says joining Current was a “foolish” mistake.
ZAC EFRON: I’M NOT A HEARTTHROB

Zac Efron is in denial of his hotness.

In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning yesterday, Zac was asked to explain what it’s like to be a hottie. “I can’t explain to you what it’s like to be a heartthrob,” the star said, “[because] I don’t think I am a heartthrob. I hate [that word]. I hate it. It follows you around, but you don’t deserve it. It’s like, ‘Why?'”

He added, “I’m just me. I’m just Zac. Just Zac.”

COCAINE FOUND IN WHITNEY’S HOTEL ROOM

Authorities found cocaine in the hotel room where Whitney Houston died in February, TMZ reports. Detectives are reportedly not investigating rumors that someone removed the drug from the room, “because they’re convinced it wasn’t removed.”

Meanwhile, daughter Bobbi Kristina has been cast in a recurring role in Tyler Perry‘s TBS sitcom For Better or Worse. The second season premieres in July.

CELEB QUICKIES

  • Sarah Palin will be going head to head with her old nemesis Katie Couric. With Katie co-hosting ABC’s Good Morning America this week, NBC has announced that Sarah will co-host the Today show — Katie’s old stomping grounds — tomorrow. Many believe Sarah’s embarrassing interview with Katie in 2008 destroyed her credibility. 
  • Rosie O’Donnell has put her Miami Beach mansion up for sale with an asking price of $19.5 million. She’s looking to make a big profit — the recently fired talk-show host paid $6.75 million in 1999 for the 11,000-square-foot home. 
  • Actress Lake Bell has gotten engaged to tattoo artist Scott Campbell. The two reportedly hit it off on the set of her HBO show How to Make It in America star when he made a guest appearance as himself last year. 
  • That ’70s Show star Lisa Robin Kelly was arrested Saturday in L.A. for spousal abuse. Kelly, who played Topher Grace‘s sister on the hit show, pled guilty to DUI in North Carolina in 2010. (via TMZ)

On TV Tonight April 2

CBS

  • 2 BROKE GIRLS (repeat)
  • TWO AND A HALF MEN (repeat)
  • 2012 NCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT – Final: Teams TBA

NBC

  • THE VOICE – Vocalists from two teams compete against each other.
  • SMASH – Julia and Tom must find a title for the recently reinvigorated musical; Ivy and Karen compete for an orange juice commercial.

FOX

  • BONES – When the remains of an escaped convict are found in the sewer, the investigation reveals the man died in prison.
  • HOUSE – The team treats an Army veteran who refuses treatment unless he and his brother are given information about their dead father.

ABC

  • DANCING WITH THE STARS – The couples perform meaningful dances using a style of their choosing.
  • CASTLE – An attractice detective from Scotland Yard teams up with Castle and Beckett to investigate the murder of his friend’s daughter.

CW

  • GOSSIP GIRL – Chuck wants to express his gratitude to Jack; Ivy finds an ally; Nate seeks an investor.
  • HART OF DIXIE (repeat)

BRAVO

  • BETHENNY EVER AFTER – Bethenny can’t escape the scandals that come with making more money.

VH1

  • BASKETBALL WIVES – Kenya tries to explain herself; Kesha finds someone to corrorborate her side of the story.
  • LA LA’s FULL COURT LIFE – With La La finding an increasing amount of celebrity, old friends Po and Dice feel left behind.

Entertainment News March 30

LINDSAY LOHAN OFF PROBATION!

We never thought it would happen — a judge ended Lindsay Lohan‘s five-year probation yesterday (Thursday).

But before she did that, Judge Stephanie Sautner gave the actress some advice. The judge said, “I am not going to give you a lecture. Live your life in a more mature way. Stop the nightclubbing and focus on your work. OK?”

Lohan was required to complete counseling sessions and 480 hours of community service work at the Los Angeles County morgue for her 2007 drunk-driving conviction. She completed her final sessions in both this week.

Linds responded to the good news by saying, “I just wanted to thank you, your Honor, for being fair. It’s opened a lot of doors for me.”

Now how will she celebrate?
MEGAN FOX: I WOULDN’T TRADE PLACES WITH AN UGLY GIRL

Megan Fox knows she’s got it going on. The possibly pregnant star opens up about her good looks in an interview with French magazine Jalouse. “I live well with my image. I cannot complain,” she says. “I would not trade my place with an unattractive girl.”

But she insists she’s not vain, saying, “I hate taking pictures. I never look at them, otherwise I would have to change everything. I prefer not to see any and trust the photographer, who knows his job.”

Star magazine says Meg is expecting, but she and hubby Brian Austin Green have not confirmed or denied it.
CHARLIE SHEEN GETS SERIOUS ON TODAY SHOW

Charlie Sheen is still apologizing for his crazy behavior last year.

On the Today show yesterday (Thursday), Charlie admitted he didn’t recognize himself when he viewed footage of his “cringeable” rants during his Torpedo of Truth tour.

He talked about trying to rehab his image after getting fired from Two and a Half Men. “I was just — I guess the plan was to just reintroduce myself to America and to the media and just say, ‘Sorry about that. But here’s what’s happening now.'”

Charlie’s FX sitcom Anger Management premieres June 28th.
TIME MAGAZINE’S BALLOT FOR 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL OUT

Time magazine has released the ballot for its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world — and there were some surprises.

Along with the usual suspects — such as President ObamaWarren BuffettMark ZuckerbergLady Gaga andStephen Colbert — Lana Del ReyLMFAORush Limbaugh and Georgetown University law student Sandra Flukemade the list.

Also on the list are AdeleJennifer LawrenceJeremy Lin and Tim Tebow.


MICHELLE DUGGAR: OVERPOPULATION A “LIE”

Michelle Duggar — the reality mother of 19 Kids and Counting — calls the notion that there are too many people in the world a “lie.”

She tells the Christian Broadcasting Network, “The idea of overpopulation is not accurate because, really, the entire population of the world, if they were stood shoulder to shoulder, could fit in the city limits of Jacksonville.”

In fact, she thinks people should have more children. “I agree with Mother Teresa when she said, ‘To say that there are too many children is like saying there are too many flowers.’ Our world needs more joy.”


CELEB QUICKIES

  • Katie Couric is returning to morning TV. But it won’t be on the Today show. She’ll be filling in for Robin Robertson rival Good Morning America. Katie’s daytime talk show will debut in September.

 

  • Ginnifer Goodwin has been secretly dating her Once Upon a Time co-star Josh Dallas since last fall, Us Weeklyreports. When the actors began filming their ABC series last summer, “they really hit it off,” an insider says. “She and Josh have a blast together and had instant chemistry.”

 

  • The busier-than-ever William Shatner will host the Juno Awards, Canada’s counterpart to the Grammys, this Sunday night.

March 30 in History

1789, the U.S. House Of Representatives held its first full meeting, in New York City.
1924, Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for leading the Nazis’ unsuccessful “Beer Hall Putsch,” an early attempt to take over the German government. Hitler wrote his autobiography Mein Kampf in prison, before being released after only nine months due to political pressure.
1960, the first weather satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral.
1970, President Richard Nixon signed a measure banning cigarette advertising on radio and television, to take effect after January 1st, 1971.
1982, the U.S. transferred control of the Panama Canal Zone to the government of Panama.
1994, Kermit The Frog hosted Larry King Live on CNN.
1996, Fifty-one-year-old umpire John McSherry collapsed on the field in Cincinnati, seven pitches into the Reds’ opening day game, and died at the hospital about an hour later. He’d planned to see doctors the next day about an irregular heartbeat. The Reds-Montreal Expos game was postponed until the next day, against the wishes of controversial Reds owner Marge Schott.
1997, Federal authorities cautioned that thousands of schoolchildren across the nation might have been exposed to the hepatitis A virus by eating frozen strawberries imported from Mexico and processed in the US.
1998, US District Judge Susan Webber Wright dismissed Paula Jones‘s lawsuit against President Bill Clinton, saying her claims of sexual harassment fell “far short” of being worthy of trial.
1999, A New Jersey man was arrested and charged with originating the “Melissa” e-mail virus. David L. Smith later pleaded guilty to various state and federal charges.
1999, The United States branded as an illegal abduction the capture of three U.S. Army soldiers near the Macedonian-Yugoslav border. President Clinton demanded their immediate release.
2000, President Bill Clinton, speaking at a fund-raiser for his wife’s Senate campaign, accused New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani of enlisting a “right-wing venom machine” against Hillary Rodham Clinton.
2000Michelle Kwan won her third World Figure Skating title.
2001, a U.S. Navy surveillance plane and a Chinese fighter jet collided over the South China Sea, forcing the American plane to land at a military airfield on the Chinese island of Hainan with 24 crewmembers on board. They were released 10 days later.
2001, former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic was arrested in the early morning hours after a 26-hour armed standoff, facing corruption charges linked to his dictatorial 13-year rule. He was eventually turned over for a war crimes trial at The Hague.

 

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