Shannen Says is an eight-episode American reality television series
broadcast on WE TV in 2012. The show focuses on the preparations for the
wedding of actress Shannen Doherty (pictured) and photographer Kurt
Iswarienko, with help from celebrity-wedding planner David Tutera.
Filmed in Malibu, California, in 2011, Shannen Says was developed by
Doherty and Iswarienko as a way to document the stress a couple
experiences while planning their wedding. It was produced by
RelativityReal and Doherty's production company No Apologies
Productions. To prepare for filming, Doherty watched reality shows by
Tori Spelling and Kim Kardashian. The series was released on the iTunes
Store and Amazon Video, but it was not made available on DVD or Blu-ray.
The show had low viewership and ranked below most other programs when it
premiered, but it had some popularity among women between the ages of 25
and 54. Shannen Says and Doherty received mixed reviews.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannen_Says>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1798:
French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile, between a
British fleet commanded by Horatio Nelson and a French fleet under Fran
çois-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, began at Aboukir Bay off the Egyptian
coast.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Nile>
1971:
The Concert for Bangladesh, a pair of benefit concerts
organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar for refugees of the
Bangladesh genocide, took place at Madison Square Garden in New York.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concert_for_Bangladesh>
1984:
Commercial peat cutters discovered a preserved bog body, now
known as Lindow Man (head pictured), at Lindow Moss in Cheshire,
England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindow_Man>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
double whammy:
1. A series of two events that causes adverse effects; a twofold blow or
setback.
2. (by extension) A series of two events that causes positive effects; a
twofold boon.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/double_whammy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I didn’t know that meeting a Star Trek fan would change my
life. I was told a fan wanted to meet me, and I turned and looked into
the face of Dr. Martin Luther King. I was breathless. He said, "Yes, I'm
the Trekker — I'm a Star Trek fan." And he told me that Star Trek was
one of the only shows that his wife Coretta and he would allow their
little children to stay up and watch. I thanked him — and I told him I
was leaving the show. All the smile came off his face and he said: "You
can’t do that." He said "Don’t you understand that for the first
time, we’re seen as we should be seen? You don’t have a Black role
— you have an equal role." And on I went back to work on Monday
morning. I went to Gene’s office and told him what had happened over
the weekend. And he said, "Welcome home. We have a lot of work to do."
--Nichelle Nichols
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nichelle_Nichols>