Dawna Lee Heising of EOE on Time Warner Cable Attends ‘Hollywood Honors Mickey Rooney’ at the Beverly Hilton Hotel

Dawna Lee Heising and John Alsedek of “Eye on Entertainment” (EOE) were in attendance on Sunday, November 1st  as The 54th Annual Thalians Ball honored legendary film, stage, and TV star Mickey Rooney and the USO Shows supporting America's Armed Forces around the world.  Thalians founders, actresses Debbie Reynolds and Ruta Lee, hosted the evening at the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Rooney received the Mr. Wonderful Award and a gold statuette, The Goofy, designed by Walt Disney himself for the Thalians in the 1950's.

Many of Mickey Rooney's leading ladies from MGM and other studios performed and attended this year. Those performing included Debbie Reynolds, Ruta Lee, Shirley Jones, Nancy Sinatra, Connie Stevens, Mitzi Gaynor, Ann Blyth and comedian-ventriloquist Terry Fator, winner of "America's Got Talent 2007" and headlining for 10 years at the Mirage in Las Vegas in "Terry Fator and His Cast of Thousands." Simon Cowell called Fator "one of the best entertainers in the world".

Bruce Vilanch wrote the script for the show, which included a special appearance by the Golddiggers, who are on national tour singing and dancing up a storm as they did on ‘The Dean Martin Show’ and in USO shows around the world.  Many stars who attended included Lou and Carla Ferrigno, Dick Van Patten, Alex Trebek, Gloria Allred, Barbi Benton, Betty Garrett,  Norm Crosby, Joan Van Ark, Ron Masak, Stella Stevens, Ann Rutherford, Marty Ingels, Terry Moore, Barbara Luna, Jack LaLanne, Elke Sommer, George Pennachio, Cybil Shepherd,  Gary Collins, Mary Ann Mobley, Richard Anderson, Garry Marshall and uniformed members of the U.S Armed Forces.

For more information about the event, please contact Ed Lozzi and Associates at epl@lozzipr.com

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“Eye on Entertainment”, a division of Eye on Excellence™ Productions, is aired twice weekly on Time Warner Cable in Southern California. The EOE team covers entertainment events, film festivals, red carpets and award shows, and features interviews with successful people in all walks of life, exploring the traits they have in common. Dawna Lee Heising is the executive producer and host of EOE.  She is a long-standing member of SAG & AFTRA and is Ms. Universe 2009.  The show is produced and directed by John Alsedek, who is also the writer, director & producer of the horror anthology series “AS DARKNESS FALLS”, which runs on Time Warner Cable.  The EOE photographer is David McNeil, who is a former executive with United Artists and was one of the developers of Pay-per-View.  For more information, please visit www.eyeonentertainment.tv.