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9 unusual facts about Amy Sherman-Palladino


Amy Sherman-Palladino

Sherman-Palladino is best known as the creator and executive producer of Gilmore Girls, an hour-long television dramedy that aired initially on The WB network, and concluded on its successor network, The CW.

On October 13, 2009, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Sherman-Palladino had been signed to write and executive produce an as yet untitled drama series for HBO.

On April 20, 2006, it was announced that Amy Sherman-Palladino and her husband Daniel could not come to an agreement with The CW to continue their contracts.

Sherman-Palladino is married to writer and producer Daniel Palladino.

On August 1, 2006, The Hollywood Reporter reported that the Fox Network had ordered a pilot of a new comedy project from Sherman-Palladino.

Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions

Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions is the production company created in 1996 by Amy Sherman-Palladino to produce Love and Marriage.

Michael Ausiello

Having garnered a number of connections with actors and producers such as Amy Sherman-Palladino, Ausiello has appeared in a few cameo roles on episodes of such television series as Gilmore Girls, Veronica Mars, and Scrubs.

Stacey Oristano

She currently stars in Amy Sherman-Palladino's Bunheads as Truly Stone, the unhinged Sparkles clothing boutique owner and close friend to Fanny & Michelle.

Wayne Wilcox

He played recurring character Marty on ten episodes of Gilmore Girls over the fourth, fifth, and seventh seasons after being discovered by Gilmore Girls co-creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino while working as a waiter at Mercer Kitchen in SoHo.


Curtis McDonald

After a few months playing for Welsh Premier League side Carmarthen Town, he moved to Poland, joining MKS Swit, alongside fellow Welshman Gianluca Palladino, in an arrangement with M&M sports management.

Daniel Palladino

Palladino is also a former producer, writer, and director for the American dramedy Gilmore Girls, he executive produced The Return of Jezebel James, and was a consulting producer, writer, and director for the sitcom Bunheads.

Eddie Palladino

A Celtics season ticket holder, during the '70s and '80s, Palladino called the 2008 NBA playoffs at the TD Banknorth Garden and saw the Celtics clinch their 17th NBA Championship, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2008 NBA Finals.

Jack Palladino

In April 2009, Australian businessman Peter Holmes à Court admitted in the NSW Supreme Court that the Hollywood actor Russell Crowe had hired Palladino & Sutherland to investigate opposition to the planned takeover of the South Sydney Rabbitohs.

Palladino spent seven years investigating the Peoples Temple tragedy, in which more than 900 members of a religious cult died in Guyana in 1979.

Palladino is best known for his work in the Peoples Temple tragedy, his defense of car maker John DeLorean, and for the Bill Clinton presidential election committee, the tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand, singer Courtney Love, and musician R. Kelly.

Jackson Douglas

He directed two Season 1 episodes of Bunheads (co-created by Amy Sherman-Palladino), episode 7 "What's Your Damage, Heather" and episode 13 "I'll Be your Meyer Lansky".

Marco Palladino

Marco Palladino (born September 12, 1988) is a Serbian-Italian inventor, software developer and internet entrepreneur, best known for co-founding Mashape, the marketplace for Cloud APIs.

Mvelaphanda Group

In January 2012, Mvelaphanda Holdings, OZ Management (a subsidiary of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group) and Palladino Holdings announced the creation of a joint venture called Africa Management Limited, which will also see the creation of African Global Capital, a platform through which to invest in public and private markets across Africa.

Mvelaphanda has been the subject of repeated scrutiny due to its involvement with Palladino Holdings in a suspicious USD25 million loan that disappeared that was originally intended to start up a state mining company.

Peter Holmes à Court

Holmes à Court said that Russell Crowe had hired San Francisco-based husband-and-wife team Palladino & Sutherland ( Jack Palladino ), to do surveillance work on people opposed to their planned takeover of the South Sydney Football Club.

Tony Palladino

While no Essex bowler was particularly cheap, Palladino took no wickets during his 28-over spell, and, following this game, was called up for two further County Championship appearances this season - even though the first of these saw him capture a career-best 6-41 with the ball, figures which included the prize wickets of Test batsmen Robert Key and Geraint Jones.


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