For the five seasons that she starred on the classic television comedy “I Dream of Jeannie,” Barbara Eden could conjure up anything from valuable artwork to an elephant with a nod and a blink.

So why did it take her four decades since the series ended its run to write a memoir about her life and career?

“Quite frankly, it scared the Dickens out of me,” Ms. Eden said in a telephone interview. “I was quite frightened of doing this. I’ve been asked several times, and it’s daunting to talk about yourself. It gets to the soft spots inside you.”

On Tuesday the Crown Archetype imprint of Random House’s Crown Publishing division said that it would release a memoir by Ms. Eden, called “Jeannie Out of the Bottle,” in the spring of 2011.

As its title implies, the book will have its share to say about “I Dream of Jeannie,” on which Ms. Eden played the mystically empowered title character from 1965 to 1970. “She’ll have a big voice in this story,” Ms. Eden said, “but a lot went on before Jeannie.”

Born in Tucson and raised in San Francisco, Ms. Eden, 75, studied singing at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and won the Miss San Francisco pageant in 1951 before moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting. Though she’d performed comedy with the likes of Johnny Carson and Lucille Ball, Ms. Eden said that “Jeannie” was “just another job” when the series, about a 2,000-year-old genie and the American astronaut who discovers her bottle, came on her radar.

The Dallas VIP 30-year reunion at Southfork Ranch is now available for purchase.

This is the link: http://www.dallasreuniondvd.com/

The DVD has coverage of the reunion, behind the scenes interviews, the private welcome dinner at the Dallas House of Blues and so much more...

Local Cocoa Beach author and historian Ray Osborne is organizing what he calls his second Jeannie Day. It is to be held at Durangoes(?) in Cocoa Beach, FL on Saturday, June 26, 2010 and he's planning on having a Jeannie look-a-like contest, a bottle give away and slide presentations of BE's visit to Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral in 1969 as well as a presentation about previous Jeannie Days.

To learn more and be in the loop about it he has created an Event Page on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120992191251244&ref=mf

TVShowsonDVD.com is reporting that the Seventh and Final Season of Sabrina the Teenage Witch featuring Barbara Eden's last appearance as Sabrina's Great Aunt Irma, the evil matriarch of the Spellman clan, will be released on DVD July 27, 2010, a mere four months after the Sixth Season release which featured two episodes with Barbara.

Aunt Irma pops in during the episode titled "A Fish Tale" fuming because Sabrina is going to marry a mortal and so Aunt Irma turns him into a fish!

The LA Time is reporting that Sony is dusting off Jeannie's bottle once again to try and come up with a great script for a big screen version of our beloved sitcom. Following is the article:

Among all the remakes of classic TV shows out there, few have seen more attempts to reach the big screen than "I Dream of Jeannie."

A number of years ago -- almost all the way back, it seems, to the birth of Jeannie herself -- there was a script by "National Treasure" writers Cormac and Marianne Wibberley, who sought to offer a feature take on the Barbara Eden-Larry Hagman series. That didn't work out, so Sony brought on "Mulan" writer Rita Hsiao. That didn't make the grade either. "Bend It Like Beckham" director Gurinder Chadha was signed on to direct at one point, then fell off. Linsday Lohan was on board to star as Jeannie. That one really didn't work out. At some point the Nicole Kidman-Will Ferrell "Bewitched" came out and flopped. That didn't help.

It was all enough to make one wish they could just clap their hands together and will a version into existence.

Now producers and Sony have a better idea. According to sources' info, as well as a listing on a nice little development board called It's On the Grid, they've hired Sheila Callaghan, a writer on Showtime's "The United States of Tara," to offer her take. You have to give them credit; they're going out of the bottle -- er, box -- with Callaghan. The writer has written on a number of "Tara" episodes, but she's best known as a downtown New York playwright, writing an acclaimed retelling of James Joyce's "Ulysses" and a Reagan-era romantic drama set in Greece titled "Lascivious Something," among some other well-regarded work.

Larry Hagman will be attending Dragon Con

Atlanta, GA

September 3 -6, 2010 

Here is the link:

http://www.dragoncon.org/index.php

Hollywood celebrities frequently visit patients at VA hospitals, shaking hands, signing autographs and posing for photographs. But one famous television celebrity enjoys visiting with Veterans in Albuquerque, N.M., so much that he became a hospital volunteer.

Bill Daily starred as Major Roger Healey on television’s “I Dream of Jeannie” starting in 1965. The series about two astronauts and a beautiful genie in a bottle ended in 1970, after which he was a regular on “The Bob Newhart Show” from 1972 to 1978.

These days, the 82-year-old actor makes Albuquerque his home and continues to make his fans laugh every Wednesday when he visits Veterans at the Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center. Daily’s warm heart and gift of gab keep patients entertained for about four hours each week. Making patients laugh was just what Daily said he needed at this point in his life. “In my time, people died at age 50, and 60 was considered old,” Daily said. “So, all of a sudden, I’m 75 and I thought I could live another 15 years and I’ve got to do something. This year was the best Christmas I’ve ever had because I felt like I’m finally doing something.”

He’s been a hospital volunteer for nearly one year, and the room-to-room visits with Veterans fills a void in his life, he said. Some friends of his also volunteer at the medical center, and suggested he join them. When Daily first thought about coming to volunteer, he worried about doing just a stand-up routine. Realizing a routine would work just one time, he decided to simply meet with patients.

Bill Daily volunteers at the Albuquerque VA Medical Center.