Jennie Garth returning

for '90210' spinoff

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The wild kids of television's West Beverly High will have a guidance counselor familiar with the posh ZIP code's dating, drugs and drama.

Jennie Garth will reprise her role as Kelly Taylor and join the cast of a planned "Beverly Hills, 90210" spinoff on CW.

She won't be a regular but will play a guidance counselor at her alma mater, the Hollywood Reporter said in a story published online Saturday.

Garth, 36, departed the CBS comedy pilot "My Best Friend's Girl" last month.

Actor Dennis Farina

arrested with gun in luggage

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Actor Dennis Farina was charged with a felony Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport after a loaded gun was found in his carry-on luggage.

When the weapon was discovered at a security checkpoint, the 64-year-old actor said he had forgotten the .22-caliber handgun was in his luggage, police said.

Farina was booked for investigation of carrying a concealed weapon, said Sgt. Dennis Beacham. Bail was set at $25,000 before police discovered the weapon was not registered. Charges were then upgraded to a felony and bail was increased to $35,000.

Farina was released after posting bail on Sunday night.

Toni Braxton's Las Vegas

show to remain in the dark

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Toni Braxton's return to the stage on the Las Vegas strip has been pushed back for at least another month.

A spokesman for Harrah's Entertainment says the target date to resume "Toni Braxton: Revealed" at the Flamingo Las Vegas hotel is now June 6th.

Braxton's show has been dark since the singer was hospitalized overnight for chest pain on April 7th.

Walters: Jones going

through 'difficult time'

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barbara Walters says she refuses to engage in a debate with Star Jones, who accused her of revealing a past affair with a senator just to sell books.

Walters said despite the public rift, she prefers to hold onto the good times the former co-hosts shared on "The View."

"Star is going through a very difficult time right now, and I'm going to have very happy memories of how wonderful she was on the program," Walters told AP Radio on Friday. "I don't want to add to her difficulties."

Jones is going through a divorce from banker Al Reynolds, whom she married in 2004.

Jones lashed out at Walters after the veteran journalist wrote in her autobiography "Audition" that the women of "The View" were forced to cover up Jones' gastric bypass surgery as she swiftly lost weight ahead of her wedding. Jones maintained at the time that she was eating less and doing Pilates.

"We lied for Star," Walters told AP Radio. "She was our colleague. She didn't want to discuss it, we didn't force her to. Was that a mistake? I don't know. ... It was Star's decision."

Earlier this week, Jones criticized her former boss for writing about her, and for including revelations of an affiar with former U.S. Senator Edward Brooke in the 1970s.

"It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book. It speaks to her true character," Jones told Us Weekly magazine.

Walters said her intention was to give the book historical perspective.

"I put it in to show in great part how race relations have changed," Walters said. "This was 30 years ago, it was an African-American prominent man. And it would've desroyed his career, and mine. Today it would have almost no impact."