Who’s The Boss? Why, Aaron Spelling, Of Course

After eight years as Samantha on the ABC sitcom “Who’s The Boss,” Alyssa Milano wondered where her next job was coming from.

“I wasn’t really sure I would work again,” she tells InStyle magazine. “I was on TV when it wasn’t cool to be on TV.”

Now she’s steaming up the small screen as the scheming Jennifer Mancini on Fox’s “Melrose Place.”

“It’s the most emotionally stable job I’ve ever had in my life,” says the 24-year-old Milano, who got her start in a touring production of “Annie” at age 7. “I love it.”

Not that it wasn’t daunting to be the new kid. “Even though I never went to one, it felt like the first day of high school,” Milano said. “I didn’t know who to sit with at lunch, so I just went into my trailer. But they were great.”

Loose talk

Esquire’s Nikki Finke, on late NBC programming whiz Brandon Tartikoff: “He transformed the lowly television executive, a mere bureaucrat before him, into a celebrity, an artist, a visionary. And he never returned phone calls.”

For Franz, how about a blue cheese cake

Dennis Franz turns 53 today.

Isn’t it funny how life imitates the artificial?

Lisa Rinna, who pays the wicked Taylor on TV’s “Melrose Place,” is expecting a child with actor hubby Harry Hamlin - ironic timing, as the fictional Taylor is trying to trick a guy into bed after lying to her husband about carrying his kid.

Guess he was hoping for a new Trump princess

Lucy Lawless, newly engaged to her executive producer on “Xena: Warrior Princess,” reveals that Donald Trump once hit on her. “He asked, ‘Are you seeing somebody?’ and I said yes, and he immediately backed off,” she said.

She’s always got something on the back burner

Kirstie Alley will rack up more screen credits this year than some actors do in a decade - five feature films, three TV specials and her new NBC sitcom, “Veronica’s Closet.” Says Alley: “It’s been a busy year, but I don’t do well with leisure time. It doesn’t be become me … Cooking for 20 people is my idea of leisure time.”

But ‘Baywatch’ made her a richer person, period

Former “Baywatch” babe Alexandra Paul stretched herself by competing in the recent Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii. “When I’m 80, I don’t want to look back on my life and just be able to recite the films and the movies and the series that I did,” she explained. “I’d like to be able to say that I did other things, and I think that it will make me a richer person spiritually.”

Now, which one of them was mommie dearest?

Former “Brady Bunch” mom Florence Henderson has her own radio show on a Los Angeles station, spinning only tunes from Broadway and Hollywood musicals. “The other day I played a Joan Crawford song,” she bragged. “How many places can you hear that?”

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