Is Ken Olin ready to strike a pose? According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Thirtysomething alum has be added to ABC's upcoming sudser Americana. The show will center on a famed fashion designer (Anthony LaPaglia) and his family. Olin, who most recently starred in and served as an executive producer for ABC's Brothers & Sisters, has landed the role of Martin, a garment manufacturing company owner, whose daughter is also a clothing designer.

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Janet Hubert isn't letting Wendy Williams' touching speech about the late Whitney Houston, recently on Williams' self-titled talker, move her. The original Aunt Viv from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and One Life To Live alum has written the talk show host an open letter on EURWeb.com, ripping her a new one for her attacks on Houston and other celebrities over the years. READ MORE

TVLine recently chatted with Ian Harding, who plays the dreamy Ezra Fitz on Pretty Little Liars.  Ezra is currently involved in an affair with the teenage Aria Montgomery (Lucy Hale), his one-time English student.  The couple, dubbed “Ezria” by fans, recently revealed their secret relationship to her parents. Furious, they have tried to keep the couple apart ever since. 
 
Aria’s dad Byron has been led to believe the couple stopped seeing each other. Still dubious, he arranged for his colleague Mr. Fitz to receive an exciting out-of-state job promotion.  In the interview with TVLine, Harding reveals how the job offer will pan out:

Ezra is such a brainiac, and even though he’s absolutely in love with Aria, he really is mulling this over. Even though the offer came out of a bad place — as in it was set up for him not because of his actual abilities but so Byron could get him out of Rosewood — he still wants it because it’s a really good job. It will move his career eight years ahead of schedule. Of course, this puts Aria off a little bit because she thinks it’s a no-brainer to turn it down, but Ezra is a little like, “Well….” So, problems will arise.  READ MORE

This week’s Pretty Little Liars was stellar, with a mix of funny moments and tons of revelations.  Each storyline progressed, old faces returned, and A stepped up their game.  Plus, Drunk Spencer!  Drunk Spencer might have been the best thing ever.
 
What’s Melissa hiding?  Spencer’s (Troian Bellisario) pregnant sister returns this week.  Spencer informs her Jason is their brother, and she’s equally disgusted at their parents.  This seems to unite the sometimes feuding sisters, and their relationship is in a good place.  Things change after Caleb sends the girls more video from the night Alison died.  It shows Melissa being the one to barge in on the N. A. T. Club in Alison’s room, angrily demanding to know where she is.  READ MORE

Lindsay Lohan has officially snagged the role of Elizabeth Taylor in Lifetime’s new biopic. Liz and Dick will follow the famed on again/off again relationship of Hollywood legends Taylor and Richard Burton. 

It was previously reported Lohan’s former Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen costar, Transfomers vixen Megan Fox, was also considered for the role of the onetime Cleopatra. 
 
This is the second big news involving an apparent Lohan comeback. Earlier in the week it was announced Lohan would host Saturday Night Live on March 3, with musical guest Jack White. This will be her third time appearing as a host, the last time being in 2006. Since then the troubled star’s career has taken a backseat to her legal woes.

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The Young and the Restless’ Tatyana Ali and All My Children’s Emerson Brooks took home Outstanding Actress and Outstanding Actor awards at the 2012 NAACP Image Awards on February 17. It was also a big night for The Help, which won Outstanding Motion Picture and earned awards for Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer in Outstanding Actress and Outstanding Supporting Actress respectively. 

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Tyler Perry’s House of Paynewon in the drama and comedy categories. Oprah’s Lifeclass beat out the competition for Outstanding Talk Series. For the full list of 2012 NAACP Image Award winners visit Zap2it. See more photos from the award show after the jump!

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