While some celebrities like to get their names on tabloids for all the wrong reasons, a number of others are exerting their time and efforts towards meaningful causes such as charity fund-raisers and awareness events.  Such is the case for Hector Elizondo, who plays Dr. Neven Bell in the hit USA series, Monk.  In fact, the 71-year-old Emmy-award winning actor will join California’s second lady, Patricia Garamendi will be headlining an event called the 3rd National Concepts in Care Conference sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America.  The event will take place in San Francisco on September 18.

Elizondo, who also recently appeared in the series Cane as Pancho Duque, will be speaking to audiences about his experiences caring for his mother, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, a fact he shares with Garamendi.

On the heels of the death of Stanley Kamel, who played the cranky yet incredibly patient shrink Dr. Charles Kroger on Monk, the Emmy Award-winning police procedural dramedy will be enlisting a new therapist for Tony Shalhoub's obsessive compulsive character.

Joining Monk for season 7, which kicks off on July 18, is none other than Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated Hector Elizondo.  The 71-year-old actor has participated in over 80 movies, including Pretty Woman, The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, where he played the head of the queen's security service and eventual love interest to Julie Andrews's character.  On TV, he is credited for his roles as Dr. Phillip Watters on Chicago Hope, and most recently as Pancho Duque on Cane.

Previously on Cane, Joe Samuels (Ken Howard) arranges for a special wedding gift for the Vegas and we see their sugar fields on fire. Alex (Jimmy Smits) confronts him and as he points his gun at him, Joe Samuels is shot.

This week, Cane picks up from that point with Joe Samuels going down and Alex swinging around trying to find the shooter and calling 911. Joe and Alex exchange ugly words as Joe dies.

This episode of Cane opens at the Duque homestead. Wedding preparations are underway and there is organized chaos.

Jaime is talking to his parents and he asks them if Rebecca can live with them when he ships out for boot camp. They agree and somehow giggle and admit to him that they eloped before they had their big Cuban wedding.

This episode of Cane begins with a Hurricane Warning and Alex and Artie preparing. Pancho and Amalia are on vacation in New York and keep calling to check on things. Isabel is at the gallery with Hudson, the artist.

Alex and Artie are going to the supermarket to buy supplies, when Alex gets a call from the alarm company. A tree branch broke a window at the Duque homestead and Alex needs to take care of it. He calls Santo to pick Artie up and take him home.

While CBS' Cane revolves around a Cuban-American family, executive producer Jonathan Prince admits that the series is not necessarily representative of the Latino community, nor does it always feature characters that can be considered as role models.

"This is television," Prince told the Deseret Morning News.  "It's a diversion. This is intended to entertain [and] provoke.  I think if we have a discussion that says, 'What's the responsibility of doing a show about a Latino cast and letting them be murderers and letting them be people who are angry at each other and letting them betray their families,' I don't know."