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12 August 2008 1:02 PM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Salma Hayek will executive produce her own wedding-based reality show, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Hayek has teamed with Merv Griffin Entertainment to devise an hour-long show with the production company's president of television Roy Bank. "This is not a docusoap," said Bank. "The format is steeped in reality - it's not contrived. It's a unique storytelling angle on weddings that has (more)

By Simon Reynolds

5 June 2008 9:30 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Her next album may not be dropping any time soon, but Britney Spears is dipping her toes back into the music scene, filming a cameo for the new Pussycat Dolls video. "It's a small part," says a source about the popstar's visit to the L.A. set of the group's video shoot for their new single, When I Grow Up, on Wednesday. Possibly saving her trademark moves for her own album, Spears was not expected to dance or perform with the girls in the video. While her recent TV meetings (she was spotted exiting the Merv Griffin offices last week) were strictly exploratory,

Mary Margaret

6 May 2008 5:17 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Late comedy legend Merv Griffin's production company has been accused of stealing an idea for the Merv Griffin's Crosswords gameshow.

In a lawsuit filed at Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, George Giangrante claims he came up with a crossword puzzle game show back in 1995 with "a 'double-cross' feature that allowed an opposing player to take all of another player's money with one correct answer, and thus, knock him or her out of contention".

Giangrante claims he pitched the show to Griffin's production firm in 2001 and "the late Merv Griffin was particularly interested in a crossword game show".

The suit seeks unspecified damages.

Griffin died last August at the age of 82 after a long battle with prostate cancer.

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26 February 2008 10:32 AM, PST | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Some analysts were suggesting that in the haste to mount Sunday night's Oscar telecast following the writers' strike, the show's writers failed to research their material sufficiently. That might have accounted for the omission of some names from the annual list of the "departed." Several writers immediately noticed the fact that Roy Scheider, who died on Feb. 10, was overlooked, as was Brad Renfro who died on January 15. A spokeswoman for the Academy said that Scheider's death came too recently to be included and of Renfro, she said, "Unfortunately we cannot include everyone." But a message on Nikki Finke's Dateline Hollywood Today blog observed that others not included in the list were such notables as Robert Goulet, Merv Griffin, Marcel Marceau, Tom Poston, and Charles Nelson Reilly, among many others. Also setting off a major controversy was the omission of Whoopi Goldberg and Steve Martin from a montage featuring Oscar hosts. Appearing on The View, where she is a regular panelist, Goldberg, a four-time Oscar emcee, appeared emotional over the slight. Her fellow panelists observed that she was the first woman ever to host the Oscars, the first Oscar winner to host the affair, and that her entrance in white face as Queen Elizabeth ("The African Queen") was one of the most memorable Oscar incidents. "Did you make somebody at the Oscars mad?" she was asked. "Undoubtedly," she replied."

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9 January 2008 6:02 AM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Late comedy legend Merv Griffin has cracked his last joke - a funny one-liner on his cemetery tombstone.

The talk show host died last August at the age of 82 after a long battle with prostate cancer and was laid to rest at Los Angeles' Westwood Village Memorial Park, alongside Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin and Jack Lemmon.

And Griffin requested his gravestone include the quip, "I will not be right back after this message."

A spokesperson for his company says, "Merv would have wanted it exactly that way."

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