Clark & Seacrest to co-host ‘New Year's Rockin' Eve'
Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest will ring in 2008 as co-hosts of “Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve” on ABC. It will be the 36th consecutive year that “Rockin' Eve” has been on the air.
Clark, 77, missed the show in 2004 when he suffered a stroke. He has been back in business for the past two years with Seacrest as co-host, counting down to midnight from New York's Times Square before a TV audience of millions.
Seacrest, 32, is expected to eventually succeed Clark as host of the show.
Here's Johnny - TV's Greatest Icon
It doesn't take a psychic in a bejeweled turban to figure out that Johnny Carson landed the top spot.
But deeper down the ranking of “The 50 Greatest TV Icons,” you may find a name that surprises you (or even makes you scratch your head). Which is part of the fun.
The list, released to the Associated Press, was compiled by cable's TV Land network and Entertainment Weekly magazine.
It's the source of a two-hour TV Land special airing Friday at 8 p.m. EST (and is also featured in the issue of Entertainment Weekly appearing on newsstands the same day). The special counts down from Larry Hagman (No. 50) to Carson, with mini-profiles of each “icon” in turn.
But what's a “TV icon” anyway?
Someone who “jumps off the screen into your home,” says Henry Winkler, who is ranked 32nd, while Regis Philbin (No. 27) says, “If you hang around long enough, they call you an icon.”
Along with human TV stars, the list contains a pooch (Lassie), a Muppet frog (Kermit), a cartoon dad (Homer Simpson) and a full-blown comedy troupe (the original Not Ready for Primetime Players from “Saturday Night Live”).
Hilton trying to save binge-drinking elephants
With Rwanda off her charity calendar, Paris Hilton has turned her attention to the plight of ... drunken elephants in India.
“The elephants get drunk all the time. It is becoming really dangerous. We need to stop making alcohol available to them,” the 26-year-old socialite was quoted as saying by the World Entertainment News Network's Web site.
In the wake of her jail term for an alcohol-related reckless driving case, Hilton is seeking to remake her image from club-hopping party girl to world-traveling do-gooder. She announced plans to do charity work in Rwanda, but the trip was postponed until next year.
Then opportunity for Hilton's “global elephant campaign” knocked last month when six parched pachyderms broke into a farm in the state of Meghalaya and guzzled farmers' homemade rice beer. The elephants went on a rampage, then uprooted an electricity pole and were jolted to death.
- From wire reports
Clark, 77, missed the show in 2004 when he suffered a stroke. He has been back in business for the past two years with Seacrest as co-host, counting down to midnight from New York's Times Square before a TV audience of millions.
Seacrest, 32, is expected to eventually succeed Clark as host of the show.
Here's Johnny - TV's Greatest Icon
It doesn't take a psychic in a bejeweled turban to figure out that Johnny Carson landed the top spot.
But deeper down the ranking of “The 50 Greatest TV Icons,” you may find a name that surprises you (or even makes you scratch your head). Which is part of the fun.
The list, released to the Associated Press, was compiled by cable's TV Land network and Entertainment Weekly magazine.
It's the source of a two-hour TV Land special airing Friday at 8 p.m. EST (and is also featured in the issue of Entertainment Weekly appearing on newsstands the same day). The special counts down from Larry Hagman (No. 50) to Carson, with mini-profiles of each “icon” in turn.
But what's a “TV icon” anyway?
Someone who “jumps off the screen into your home,” says Henry Winkler, who is ranked 32nd, while Regis Philbin (No. 27) says, “If you hang around long enough, they call you an icon.”
Along with human TV stars, the list contains a pooch (Lassie), a Muppet frog (Kermit), a cartoon dad (Homer Simpson) and a full-blown comedy troupe (the original Not Ready for Primetime Players from “Saturday Night Live”).
Hilton trying to save binge-drinking elephants
With Rwanda off her charity calendar, Paris Hilton has turned her attention to the plight of ... drunken elephants in India.
“The elephants get drunk all the time. It is becoming really dangerous. We need to stop making alcohol available to them,” the 26-year-old socialite was quoted as saying by the World Entertainment News Network's Web site.
In the wake of her jail term for an alcohol-related reckless driving case, Hilton is seeking to remake her image from club-hopping party girl to world-traveling do-gooder. She announced plans to do charity work in Rwanda, but the trip was postponed until next year.
Then opportunity for Hilton's “global elephant campaign” knocked last month when six parched pachyderms broke into a farm in the state of Meghalaya and guzzled farmers' homemade rice beer. The elephants went on a rampage, then uprooted an electricity pole and were jolted to death.
- From wire reports
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