"However, Milano did not share Combs’ concern that this job opportunity failed to surface solely due to age. Nor did she take the same stance as Shannen Doherty, who claimed that the marketing for the reboot was “a bit offensive.”
While none of the original sisters are pleased with the reboot, Milano at least conceded a bit of goodwill toward the new series before shutting down any hopes of her involvement. "I do hope that it reaches the newer generation and impacts that generation the way ours was able to do for its generation," the actress said before responding to a question of whether she would make a cameo or direct an episode of the new series.
"I don't think so," Milano said. "I think that that ship has sailed for me." Sorry, Charmed. Don’t expect any love from the OG witches."
"Lifetime’s last season of Project Runway All Stars is scheduled to premiere on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. Alyssa Milano will once again serve as our intrepid host, and veteran All Stars judges Isaac Mizrahi and Georgina Chapman will return to their posts. Marie Claire editor-in-chief Anne Fulenwider will also come back as the mentor to the contestants.
Speaking of this season's batch of contestants, let's get into who which Project Runway winners will vie for the title of Project Runway All Stars: Winners Edition victor. From the U.S. edition of the design competition reality series, we have Season 6’s Irina Shabayeva, Seth Aaron Henderson of Season 3, Anya Ayoung-Chee of Season 9, Season 11’s Michelle Lesniak, Season 13’s Sean Kelly, All Stars Season 2’s Anthony Ryan, and Dmitry Sholokhov of Season 10 and All Stars Season 4. Will Dmitry go for the three-peat? Can't wait to find out.
This season of All Stars will be the last time a Project Runway program airs on Lifetime. During NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation back in May, Andy Cohen revealed Project Runway will return to Bravo “where it all started.” The first season of Project Runway premiered on Bravo in 2004 and stayed on that network for five seasons. In 2009, it moved to Lifetime for 11 more, and now it is moving again. All Stars premiered on Lifetime in 2012, but Bravo has yet to announce if the Project Runway spinoff will join Project Runway on its new/old network."
"“Soon enough, you will know the full truth.”
The three-minute video ended with a burst of cliffhanger music.
Within an hour of Spacey tweeting a link to the video, "Insatiable" star and #MeToo activist Alyssa Milano, 46, retweeted a news story from earlier that day, in which authorities confirmed Spacey faces sexual assault charges in Boston. "And after you read this," she wrote, "then watch the creepy video Mr. Spacey posted after the news broke."
Shortly afterward, comedian and political commentator W. Kamau Bell, 45, tweeted, "That Kevin Spacey video is further proof that no matter how rich and famous you get you need at least 3 people in your life who have no problem saying to you . . . ," followed by a GIF of "Saturday Night Live" comic Leslie Jones looking perplexed, with the superimposed graphical text "Bruh?? What the hell??").
"Escape at Dannemora" and former "Medium" star Patricia Arquette, 50, tweeted, "I'm sure none of the men who were kids at the time of their sexual assaults appreciate @KevinSpacey's weird video," referring to the multiple allegations against the actor, beginning in October 2017 when "Star Trek: Discovery" star Anthony Rapp revealed that an adult Spacey had made sexual advances toward him in 1986, when Rapp was 14. Spacey, who publicly apologized to Rapp, infamously used the same 2017 social media post to also reveal that he is a gay man. Several celebrities similarly leveled heavy criticism at Spacey after that post."
"Description:
If her soul is bound by an evil spell,
Call back her spirit with a ringing bell.
Salt in her left hand, gold in her right
Will cast out the dark and restore her soul's light.
The Halliwells are on vacation. It's time to party in New Orleans.
But on Prue, Piper and Phoebe's first night in the Big Easy, Phoebe has a dream filled with images of strange, violent rituals under a full moon.
Soon after, a new friend of Prue's disappears—on the night of the full moon! When the Charmed Ones try to find her, they are drawn into a dark world of voodoo sorcery…
a powerful magic like nothing the sisters have ever seen."
"“As a mother, I can’t think of a more important time to let kids know that their voice matters,” Milano said in a statement. “I’m so excited about my new character, Hope Roberts. She believes in dreaming big. She’s brave and strong and confident in her abilities — but she’s also a girl just trying to survive middle school. I’m thrilled to be working with Scholastic on this empowering book series and can’t wait for everyone to meet Hope.”
Named one of the 2017 Persons of the Year in TIME magazine alongside other activists, Milano gained notice last year for helping to popularize the #MeToo movement. As an actress she’s known for her roles in Charmed, Melrose Place, and Who’s the Boss? (see a photo from her childhood role above) and she most recently appeared in the Netflix series Insatiable.
“I’ve been a huge fan of Alyssa Milano’s for years and I was so excited from the very moment she shared her idea and vision for Hope — a series centered around a smart and passionate character who is ready to conquer the world,” Debra Dorfman, Vice President and Publisher for Global Licensing, Brands and Media of Scholastic, said in a statement. “Alyssa is such positive role model and I admire how she uses her voice and her platform to help those in need around the world, especially children. We at Scholastic are thrilled to share her inspiring and hopeful message to kids everywhere.”"
"Description:
White robes under the Druid moon,
Midsummer's Eve is coming soon.
Spells and chanting call the power
To work dark witchcraft in the hour!
Prue lands a summer trip to England to buy medieval books for a collector, so Phoebe and Piper tag along to the quaint village of Hay-on-Wye, in the heart of King Arthur country. While Piper reads how to make love charms from flowers, Phoebe meets the darkly handsome Niall. But she's shaken by a desolate vision of him on a windswept heath, holding an infant. Is Niall a warlock?"
Then Piper discovers a secret Druid ritual in progress, with Niall at the center of it! She freezes the group, and the Charmed Ones set out to discover Niall's secret. They learn that a local villager is in terrible danger from the Druids, and only a magical spell from centuries past can save her.
The Charmed Ones are convinced that only a long journey can win against the Druids—a voyage back in time to Camelot!"
"That latter group has been highly critical of the reincarnation led by Melonie Diaz, Sarah Jeffery and Madeleine Mantock since it was picked up last spring. And now that the trio has finally made their debut as a new group of witchy siblings, TheWrap thought we’d round up the biggest differences between The CW reboot’s pilot and the Constance M. Burge-created series that hit the airwaves 20 years ago.
(Don’t worry, a lack of alliteration is not among the key changes. See: Macy, Mel and Maggie vs. Prue, Piper, Phoebe and Paige.)"
"It now appears that Milano’s exhortation sent Americans to Google in droves to learn more about what exactly qualified as sexual harassment and sexual assault — and what they could do about it.
A research team from Harvard Medical School and UC San Diego documented the extent of this self-education campaign by examining trends in Google searches between Jan. 1, 2004, and Oct. 14, 2017, the day before Milano’s fateful tweet.
Extrapolating from that data, they used an algorithm to estimate how many times Americans would have searched the terms “sexual” with “harassment” and “sexual” with “assault” between Oct. 15, 2017, and June 15, 2018, if the #MeToo movement had never happened. They also made predictions about searches involving either of those combinations along with the terms “report” or “reporting,” or with “train” or “training.”
Then the researchers compared these counterfactual scenarios to the actual number of searches conducted with these keywords during the eight-month period.
Sure enough, online interest in sexual harassment and assault spiked in the U.S., the researchers found.
“The post-#MeToo period corresponded with the greatest number of sexual harassment and/or assault searches ever recorded in the United States,” the researchers reported Friday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
They exact number of searches was difficult to pin down, but the team wrote that it was somewhere between 40 million and 54 million over the entire 8 months. That was 86% higher than they would have expected in the absence of #MeToo.
The search volume was significantly higher than expected in every week throughout the 8-month span, they added."
"At least that’s the question many were asking when images of Milano, front and center at the hearings, went viral. Twitter had a field day meme-ing the Charmed actress as either a real-life good witch or bad witch, depending on whose side you were on. Saturday Night Live seized upon Milano’s attendance as the running gag of its opening sketch that weekend. Her presence sparked confusion—and levity—but within the context of American politics of the past two years, it wasn’t unusual. And in a way, Milano’s familiar, frustrated face in the crowd served as a sort of communal exasperation, expressing what so many were thinking (and what Ford’s face could not), namely: “Can you believe this shit?”
But then again, to a particular subset of the population, Milano is known more for her activism than for playing Phoebe on Charmed. Forget who—anyone born after 2000 is probably asking what even is Who’s the Boss? After all, three days after attending the Kavanaugh hearings at the invitation of Senator Dianne Feinstein, Milano was in Parkland, Florida, “to be with the families of the kids who lost their lives and the youth activists” at the Actions for Change Food & Music Festival. Say what you will about celebrity activism—that it oversimplifies the issues, that it’s a spotlight grab disguised as “awareness-building”—Milano walks the walk.
The morning after the 2016 presidential election, Milano was on set, filming Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later with series co-creator David Wain. “The atmosphere was like a funeral,” Wain recalls. “Everyone that day was inspired to do more, work harder, take action, but she’s the one who really did it. Like, every single day.” In fact, she’s been at it since her teen-idol days. At 15, Milano met Ryan White, a fellow teenager from Indiana who had contracted HIV/AIDS from a contaminated blood transfusion for hemophilia. When White returned to school after his diagnosis, he was shunned by many in his community and eventually banned because of a misperception that the virus could be transmitted through kissing or other bodily contact. The case went to court, and it was ruled that the school acted illegally. On the day he returned, half the students stayed home. The case became a cause célèbre for raising AIDS awareness, and when White was invited to appear on The Phil Donahue Show to share his story, he asked Milano, his teenage crush, to join him.
“[He asked me] to kiss him, to show that HIV/AIDS was not contracted through casual contact,” she says. “And so, in the height of my teenage—whatever that was—I said yes and went on TV and kissed a little boy with HIV/AIDS, and we sort of shifted the narrative in that moment. I realized what being a celebrity and having a platform could mean, and the impact it could have on people’s lives.” She’s been politically active ever since, riding through swing districts with a bullhorn in the back of a pickup truck, rallying on college campuses, and driving people to the polls. “Basically the same thing that I do now, just minus the social media, so no one really heard about it,” she says. But right now, she adds, “democracy is a full-contact sport, and the only way for it to work is to be involved.”"
"Those who watched the original Charmed series will all know of the long-running, tumultuous relationship between Witch/Charmed One/ youngest sister Phoebe Halliwell and Cole Turner. Their relationship was a long running story arc in the series and was a major test of Phoebe’s relationship with her sisters as well as her stance as a good witch/Charmed One.
Cole Turner (played by Julian McMahon) was a half-demon (demon name Balthazor) initially assigned by the Triad to kill the Charmed Ones, but fell in love with Phoebe (played by Alyssa Milano) while on his mission. He had an internal struggle with his demon side and his human side, his human side being his “weakness” that allowed him to fall for Phoebe Halliwell. Their relationship faced struggles due to their positions and duties in the supernatural community and more realistic issues like Cole’s manipulative and obsessive behavior towards Phoebe.
Fast-Forward to 2018 Charmed 2.0, and it seems we may have another Phoebe and Cole on our hands. Maggie Vera (played by Sarah Jeffery), the youngest sister/Charmed One (like Phoebe Halliwell) is a college freshman and meets Parker Caine. There seems to be an instant attraction. Maggie discovers Parker (played by Nick Hargrove) is dating her friend Lucy and tries to keep her distance, but when trying to distract Parker from demonic activity thinking he’s an innocent human she needs to distract, keep safe and out of the-know, she kisses him.
After the kiss, Parker is persistent in his pursuit of Maggie and lands a date with her. Maggie thinks she can trust him because, unlike her sisters, she doesn’t have an active physical power (also like Phoebe Halliwell) and reads minds. Parker’s thoughts don’t seem too suspicious, so nothing to worry about, right?
Wrong."
"Ahead of the reboot's buzzed-about premiere, we're looking back at all the behind-the-scenes drama that went down on Charmed, which ran for eight season from 1998-2006 on The WB—including the epic decade-long feud between two of its biggest stars, actors being let go for no reason, and, of course, the resentment some of the original cast has for the new version.
Watch out, something wicked (and nostalgic) this way comes...
But the spell seemingly had worn off by the beginning of season three, with reports of major on-set tension between Doherty and Milano, with no reason ever given for their falling out. A popular theory is that Doherty was jealous of Milano's growing popularity. Another is that Doherty was just frustrated with the direction the show was going in and wasn't shy about making her opinion known. (Burge reportedly left the show ahead of season three when she became frustrated that storylines were more focused on the sisters' relationships with their love interests than each other.)
Things between the on-screen sisters got so bad that they reportedly only spoke when absolutely necessary. "There were times when I'd come in and say, 'Good morning, Shannen,' and she didn't say anything to me," Milano admitted. "And there were times when she'd come in and say, 'Good morning, Alyssa,' and I wouldn't say anything to her.""
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