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A sad-eyed, full-lipped, handsome actor of Italian and Puerto Rican descent, Michael DeLorenzo started out as a dancer in both the "Fame" feature and TV series and left his gypsy days behind as Eddie Torres, the.... A sad-eyed, full-lipped, handsome actor of Italian and Puerto Rican descent, Michael DeLorenzo started out as a dancer in both the ...

NEAR the end of what turned out to be the final season of " Zoey 101," Victoria Justice -- who was playing Jamie Lynn Spears' sidekick, Lola -- was summoned, with her mom, to a meeting with Dan Schneider.

In the f irst hour , Ed, Frankie and Tony weigh in on the premieres of several new network series, including Cougar Town, Modern Family, Community, Hank, The Middle, The Good Wife, Trauma and Mercy.

Robin Givens was a rising star in the 1980s when her famous husband, Mike Tyson, abused her.

HOLLYWOOD -- The hottest Nickelodeon actor this side of a sponge is shooting her scene, and the laughs on set are strong though not quite uproarious. Miranda Cosgrove, star of the cable hit 'iCarly,' is nailing her take, but the scene still lacks the show's customary build-to-wacky laughs. The scene needs some heat.

Fortunately, the show's creator, Dan Schneider, is a one-man comic spark. From behind a bank of equipment, he barks out the order: Bring in the flash paper that will be placed inside one of the young actor's smoothie-shop cups. The scene starts again, the smoke effect goes off -- pop! -- without anyone getting singed, and hilarity ensues.

WKRP in Cincinnati was an American sitcom that displayed an ensemble cast who worked at a struggling radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Today: Actor-singer Ruben Blades is 61. Drummer Stewart Copeland of The Police is 57.

The June 25 death of pop icon Michael Jackson has sparked words of praise from celebrities around the world.

The show I was thinking of writing about appears to have been banished from YouTube , so here's something else I found today, the pilot of a show I loved as a callow, or at least callow-ish youth.