When Cheryl Hines isn’t fighting with Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm, she's digging up old memories from her days as a personal assistant for her new show, The Assistants. The show is being developed by E! and a decision whether to make the pilot will occur in the next few weeks. “I wrote it with my friend Julie Welch, and it's about personal assistants in Hollywood,“ Hines tells us at the HBO party in Los Angeles. “What will be so great about this show is that Julie and I have been gathering stories from personal assistants, and because [on the show] they're fictional characters we will use real stories. We won't name names, though. So you can imagine the stories from this town.” It turns out that some of the stories on her show may hit close to home. “I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.... I need to call him,” she says amid laughter. — Reporting by Carlita Rizzo
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It's an oldie but goodie on The Office tonight [9:30 pm/ET on NBC]. We are rerunning an episode from Season 1 called "Diversity Day." Michael is subjected to a day of diversity training after complaints are made to corporate about his behavior. He hijacks the meeting and teaches his own brand of sensitivity.
If you are new to The Office, this will be a treat. "Diversity Day" is an often-quoted fan favorite. It is also a favorite of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the creators of the original British version of
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Question: Is it true that the couples who talk about how they met in When Harry Met Sally... are actors, not actual couples?
Answer: The couples who address the camera in When Harry Met Sally... (1989) with stories of how they met are actors, but the stories they tell are authentic — director Rob Reiner collected real people's recollections and scripted them.
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