Two Icons Lost On
Thursday, June 25 the world lost to icons. Farrah Fawcett & Michael
Jackson!
Farrah Fawcett, 62 who had been
fighting cancer for over 2 years subcommand to the disease. Fawcett was
best know for her role as Jill Munroe on the hit 70s series, "Charlie's Angels"
and the "red bathing suite" poster which sold over 12 million copies. She
went to star on Broadway and won critical acclaim in "Extremities" She also did
the film based on the play and "The Burning Bed". Fawcett was survived by her
son, Redmond O'Neal and her father, Jim Fawcett.
Michael Jackson, 50 died of a
full
cardiac arrest
there has been a cloud on how he died. Today it was found that Jackson had taken
a narcotic painkiller before he collapsed. No official
determination of what killed "the King of Pop." Jackson was apart of the
Jackson 5 until he went out on his own which he took the world by stormed
with huge songs as "Billy Jean," "Beat It," and "Thriller." His life off
the stage was front page news from his marriage to Lisa Marie Presley, dangling
one of his kids off a balcony to allegations of child abuse. Jackson is
survived by his three kids.
After all is said and done, we
will remember each icon for their talents, Michael Jackson for his songs
and that "moon" dance and Fararh Fawcett for being an "Angel" on earth.
This is a truly sad day for the world.
Auditions for Next Food Star
The
Food Channel is already
looking for the The Next Food Network Star outstanding chefs and home
cooks for the series 2010 season. The Next Food Network Star is
television’s most challenging food fight, providing 10 hopeful TV chefs the
chance to compete for the ultimate dream job: his or her own Food Network show.
Season five is currently underway and airs Sundays at 9pm ET/PT.
The network will conduct a nationwide talent search and encourages both
professional and amateur chefs to apply. Open-call auditions will be held around
the country throughout July and August. For applications, contest rules, and
submission instructions simply visit
www.FoodNetwork.com/Star
Casting locations will include:
Phoenix, AZ – Wednesday, July 8, 2009 from 10am-4pm
Embassy Suites Phoenix/Scottsdale 4415 East Paradise Village Parkway, Phoenix,
AZ 85032
Chicago, IL – Sunday, July 12, 2009 from 10am-4pm
Affinia Chicago Hotel 166 East Superio, Chicago, IL 60611
Austin, TX – Friday, July 17, 2009 from 10am-4pm
Hyatt Regency Downtown 208 Barton Springs Road, Austin, TX 78704
San Francisco, CA – Sunday, July 26, 2009 from 10am-4pm
W San Francisco 181 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
New York, NY – Friday, July 31, 2009 from 10am-4pm
CBS 530 W. 57th Street, New York, NY 10019
Los Angeles, CA – Monday, August 10, 2009 from 10am-4pm
Saddle Ranch 8371 West Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
San Diego, CA – Monday, August 17, 2009 from 12pm – 5pm
W San Diego 421 W. B Street, San Diego, CA 92101
Atlanta, GA – Monday, August 24, 2009 from 10am-4pm
W Atlanta Midtown 188 14th St. NE, Atlanta, GA 30361
Beyoncé & Hamburger Helper
Beyoncé just announced her partnership with General Mills’ Hamburger Helper to
help combat hunger with Feeding America through her “I AM…” tour at Madison
Square Garden yesterday afternoon.
Show Your Helping Hand™ campaign fights hunger in AMERICA Beyoncé and General
Mills’ Hamburger Helper® invited fans to help Feeding America deliver millions
of meals to donate directly to Feeding America via showyourhelpinghand.com or
text the word “SHOW” to 90999 to give a $5 gift through Jan. 1, 2010.*
Beyoncé has partnered with General Mills’ Hamburger Helper® with the goal of
helping Feeding America deliver more than 3.5 million meals to local food banks
through the Show Your Helping Hand™ campaign. For more information, visit
www.showyourhelpinghand.com.
Beyoncé donates
food with Sarita Finnie (Hamburger Helper) and Vicki Escarra (Feeding America)
“If I Could Be
Anything, I’d be a Good Father” By
President Barack Obama for
PARADE
Two days before the
inauguration, PARADE published a letter from Barack Obama to his daughters about
what he hoped for them and all the children of America. The letter attracted
international attention. On this Father’s Day, PARADE asked the President to
reflect on what fatherhood means to him. Here is an excerpt of the original
piece written by President Obama, which appears in full in this Sunday’s issue
of PARADE. I observe this Father’s Day not just
as a father grateful to be present in my daughters’ lives but also as a son who
grew up without a father in my own life.
In many ways, I
came to understand the importance of fatherhood through its absence—both in my
life and in the lives of others. I came to understand that the hole a man leaves
when he abandons his responsibility to his children is one that no government
can fill. We can do everything possible to provide good jobs and good schools
and safe streets for our kids, but it will never be enough to fully make up the
difference.
We need fathers
to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what
makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.
I know I have
been an imperfect father. I know I have made mistakes. I have lost count of all
the times, over the years, when the demands of work have taken me from the
duties of fatherhood. There were many days out on the campaign trail when I felt
like my family was a million miles away, and I knew I was missing moments of my
daughters’ lives that I’d never get back. It is a loss I will never fully
accept.
On this
Father’s Day, I think about the pledge I made to Malia the day she was born:
that I would give her what I never had—that if I could be anything in life, I
would be a good father.
LAKERS CHAMPIONSHIP PARADE INFORMATION All
of Los Angeles is invited to stand along Figueroa Street from STAPLES Center to
the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to cheer the Los Angeles Lakers players having
just won the fifteenth NBA Championship in the franchise’s history. Following
the parade, a special rally featuring the players, team officials, Coach Phil
Jackson and other special several players will take place in the Coliseum.
The
Coliseum gates will open beginning at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 17th for fans
wishing to attend the rally. Early arriving fans will be able to watch the
parade on giant video screens in addition to being entertained by the Laker
Girls and other special guests. As space is limited to the first 95,000 fans,
guests are encouraged to arrive early.
Please note that STAPLES Center and L.A. LIVE property is closed to all general
public foot and vehicle traffic. Fans can start lining up on the east side of
Figueroa Street at 11th Street.
EVENT TIMELINE: (note these times are subject to change)
11:15 a.m. All vehicles pass by STAPLES Center and L.A. LIVE
11:20 a.m. Official Parade Starts on Figueroa Street
12:00 p.m. Parade arrives at Memorial Coliseum & Rally Begins
1:00 p.m. Rally concludes
FANS WISHING TO WATCH PARADE ALONG FIGUEROA STREET
Fans are encouraged to line-up along both sides of Figueroa Street between 11th
Street and 39th Street.
Sandra on GLAMOUR
Sandra Bullock new movie THE
PROPOSAL opens Friday June 19th. She also has landed on the cover of
GLAMOUR magazine with a brand new photo shoot and talking about doing life
and her marriage her way!
THE PROPOSAL Bullock
co-stars with hunky Ryan Reynolds. The film
is set around a high-powered book editor faces
deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she's
actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew, who she's
tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few
conditions of his own.
Celebrating the Lakers In
celebration of the Los Angeles Lakers return to the NBA Finals, the
TEAM LA Store has specially designed and created official Los Angeles Lakers
and 2009 NBA Finals must have merchandise for all Laker fans. T-Shirts, jerseys,
hats, glasses, shot glasses, and much more to celebrate the Lakers and Magic in
the NBA Finals.
Local fans can visit the TEAM LA Stores at:
STAPLES Center, 1111 S. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015, (213) 742-7852
The Home Depot Center, 18400 Avalon Blvd, Carson, CA 90746, (310) 630-2260
Copper on Details Bradley
Cooper, star of the upcoming comedy The Hangover, will be on the cover of
the June/July issue of DETAILS magazine (on newsstands next Tuesday, June
2).
On acting in comedic roles: “I’m not even funny at all. That’s
what’s so ironic.”
On why he went into show business: “…when I was a kid, I would
fake-fight all the time. I was really good at sound effects. That’s the reason
why I thought I could be effective in this business.”
On being a star: “I don’t have to curtail my life at all. Zero.
Zero. Zero.”
Check out the full story on
Details.com:
CLICK HERE
Scott Caan's LIFE.com gallery Scott
Caan – actor, director, writer – added yet another title to his resume:
published photographer. “Scott Caan Photographs Vol. 1” is a collection of
his work since 2003, when he was directing the film “Dallas 362” and his father,
legendary actor James, gave him a vintage camera for his birthday.
“It sort of changed my whole perspective on
making movies. My original approach [to directing] was to just get a good
cinematographer and deal with the actors mostly, but after I started taking
pictures, it couldn’t have been more of a 180,” says Caan, who admits he’s
developed an “obsession with frames.” The new book includes shots from Caan’s
travels to Amsterdam, Cuba, and the Deep South, but for this exclusive excerpt
on LIFE, the photographer offers his insider’s perspective on that rarefied
place he may know best: the world of celebrity.
Funnyman
Conan O’Brien
O'Brien
graces the cover of
PARADE Magazine this weekend and guess what? Conan admits he
thinks he’s funny! “I think I have some natural ability—I think I’m a funny
person,” he tells PARADE “I knew I had something to offer as a performer, but I
was very realistic about what I didn’t have. I knew I wasn’t good-looking enough
to be, you know, sort of a handsome lead actor.”
O’Brien also dishes on his new job, his old job and much more. Check out a few
highlights...
On his new job, taking over NBC’s
The Tonight Show... “It’s a huge responsibility. But I can’t let that be in my head all the
time. The biggest danger to me right now would be overthinking. When I am
comfortable and having a good time, it works. I think that, at my best, I’m just
a silly man having fun.”
On getting choked up when his show ended in February.... “I think I was feeling what a lot of people feel when they go to a place to
do work for a long period of time, and then they have to leave,” he tells
PARADE. “That show—which, by the way, was the scariest thing that I’ve ever
undertaken—changed my life and gave me so much. Most of the people that I’m
closest to in my life work on that show. I met my wife through that show, and we
have children now.”
America's Got Talent submissions MySpace
will open up the search to every corner of America. MySpace users and
aspiring contestants will again have the opportunity to audition for the current
season of the show by uploading videos showcasing their talents at a special
America’s Got Talent community hosted by MySpace at
http://myspace.com/americasgottalent .
America’s Got Talent video submissions will be accepted on MySpace
starting May 1 through May 11. The show’s producers will review submissions and
selected participants will take part in an audition show dedicated solely to
MySpace submissions. Contestants will compete for slots in the semi-finals and
finals. All of the acts will be eligible for the $1 million grand prize.
America’s Got Talent which premieres Tuesday, June 23 (9-11p.m. ET)
Jackman on Parade
In
this Sunday's issue of
PARADE magazine, Hugh
Jackman goes on record about the gay rumors that have followed him
around. Despite his obviously close relationship with his wife, whispers have
persisted since he played
Peter Allen that Jackman himself might be gay. “I’d be happy to go and
deny it, because I’m not. But by denying it, I’m saying there is something
shameful about it, and there isn’t anything shameful. The questions about
sexuality I find more here in America than anywhere else, because it’s a big
hang-up and defines what people think about themselves and others. It’s not a
big issue in Australia,” he tells Contributing Editor
Kevin Sessums in PARADE.
Trouble The Water on HBO The
day before Hurricane Katrina hit, 24-year-old Kimberly Rivers Roberts, a
resident of
New Orleans ’ 9th Ward, turned her new video camera on herself,
declaring, “It’s going to be a day to remember.” With hardly any supplies and
no way of leaving her hometown, Roberts taped her harrowing ordeal as Katrina
raged and the levees failed. Directed and produced by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal,
TROUBLE THE WATER opens with this unforgettable home video footage, then follows
Kimberly and her husband Scott on a two-year odyssey – from the devastation of
the storm to their escape from the city, to resettlement in Memphis, to an
eventual return to a decimated
New Orleans – telling a story of transformation, heroism and love.
Trouble The Water,
a recent Oscar® nominee for Best Documentary Feature, the film debuts THURSDAY,
APRIL 23 (8:30-10:15 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.
Michael J. Fox on Larry King Actor/author
MICHAEL J. FOX appears tonight on
CNN’s Larry King Live discussing
his new book AlwaysLooking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable
Optimist, and his struggle with Parkinson’s disease.
MICHAEL J.
FOX ON OPTIMISM AND PARKINSON’S DISEASE
KING: How about bad days?
FOX: I have bad days, but
again, I have to separate how I feel, physically, from how I feel emotionally.
Allowing that a lot of people who have Parkinson’s deal with clinical depression
– that’s a completely different issue. You have to put that aside. And you can’t
jolly your way out of that. I mean, that’s really – it takes some serious
dealing with.
But, absent that, just if I have a bad day physically, it might disappoint me
that therefore I can’t do something that I want to do. I can’t do it the way and
in the timeframe that I want to do it.
But it’s easy for me to just go, well, that’s how my body feels, that’s not how
I feel. There’s other things I can do. And it’ll come around.
Tune in Tonight,Tuesday April 7 on CNN.
Life.com first
ONLINE cover LIFE.com unveils Miley Cyrus
as its first online celebrity cover. The site launched on Tuesday, March 31st
and this Friday’s photo of Miley makes her the first “LIFE cover” for the
website.
In addition to the cover shot, a gallery of Miley photos appears on the web site
including photos with Miley and her father Billy Ray and an exclusive shot of
Miley in her bedroom closet she converted into a recording studio. No one else
has ever photographed her in this studio.
Spears
with Candies! Superstar and multi-platinum recording artist,
Britney Spears will appear
in new ads for the junior brand, Candie’s sold
exclusively at
Kohl’s Department Stores.
The ad features a “Britney
Spears for Candie’s Only at Kohl’s” logo in diamonds
with a collage of color and black and white snapshots of Spears from the photo
shoot. Spear’s is featured in Candie’s apparel,
footwear, swimwear, intimates and accessories available at
Kohl’s.
Spears was photographed in
Los Angeles by photographer Mark Liddell.
Britney Spears commented,
“I had so much fun shooting the Candies for Kohl's
campaign. My favorite set-up was against the gigantic wall of
pink cotton candy. I got to
wear the cutest clothes and they are perfect for summer!”
TV Guide's Sexiest Issue!
TV
Guide Magazine
reveals the definitive “who’s who” of sexy in its annual Sexiest Stars
issue—and, nabbing top honors this year for Sexiest Female Star and Sexiest Male
Star are Eva Longoria Parker and Simon Baker. Stay tuned for more from TV Guide
Magazine’s Sexiest Stars issue, on newsstands May 26th.
Desperate Housewives dish Eva Longoria Parker has landed on the cover of
the Sexiest Stars issue in a year when the show made her look as frumpy as
possible (no small feat!). The Texas-born actress takes her Sexiest Female Star
title with pride, and also in stride: “I think the timing for this is pretty
funny actually, but also really great,” says Longoria Parker.
The Mentalist star Simon Baker ranks No. 1 this year as Sexiest Male
Star. Ask the Australia-born Baker – with twinkly blue eyes and a scampish smile
– how it feels to be on the cover of TV Guide Magazine as an object of desire
and he’ll hem and haw: “I’m from a working-class family and, first and foremost,
my role in life is to be a husband, father and provider – not a star and
certainly not a sex symbol,” says Baker—proving that nothing is sexier than a
devilishly handsome family man.
A-Rod Confessions
Yankee
slugger Alex Rodriguez sat down with DETAILS magazine just hours before the
steroids scandal broke wide open. Despite being confronted by SI about steroids,
what was the biggest concern on A-Rod’s mind? A Madonna song he mentioned to our
writer, Jason Gay. DETAILS plunges into the psyche of A-Rod as the
scandal of a lifetime was about to be revealed and what he must do to recover.
“We live in a world right now where everyone’s keeping score. And it doesn’t
stop when the games end...They’ve crossed over. And you have the Internet stuff,
and all these phones...It’s very intense.” - Alex Rodriguez
“New York is one of a kind. It’s made me ask all the tough questions. It’s
brought out the best in me. There are some
things
I have to work on. And that part is fun. Revealing the truth about yourself is
always good.”
A-Rod on Madonna: “Well, we’re friends...I have a lot of respect for her...She’s
very smart and she’s passionate about everything she does...if there ever was
any situation, she’s a great ear to have, you know?”
On
Thursday, June 25 the world lost to icons. Farrah Fawcett & Michael
Jackson!
The
Food Channel is already
looking for the The Next Food Network Star outstanding chefs and home
cooks for the series 2010 season. The Next Food Network Star is
television’s most challenging food fight, providing 10 hopeful TV chefs the
chance to compete for the ultimate dream job: his or her own Food Network show.
Season five is currently underway and airs Sundays at 9pm ET/PT.
All
of Los Angeles is invited to stand along Figueroa Street from STAPLES Center to
the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to cheer the Los Angeles Lakers players having
just won the fifteenth NBA Championship in the franchise’s history. Following
the parade, a special rally featuring the players, team officials, Coach Phil
Jackson and other special several players will take place in the Coliseum.
In
celebration of the Los Angeles Lakers return to the NBA Finals, the
TEAM LA Store has specially designed and created official Los Angeles Lakers
and 2009 NBA Finals must have merchandise for all Laker fans. T-Shirts, jerseys,
hats, glasses, shot glasses, and much more to celebrate the Lakers and Magic in
the NBA Finals.
Bradley
Cooper, star of the upcoming comedy The Hangover, will be on the cover of
the June/July issue of DETAILS magazine (on newsstands next Tuesday, June
2).
O'Brien
graces
MySpace
will open up the search to every corner of America. MySpace users and
aspiring contestants will again have the opportunity to audition for the current
season of the show by uploading videos showcasing their talents at a special
America’s Got Talent community hosted by MySpace at
In
LIFE.com unveils Miley Cyrus
as its first online celebrity cover. The site launched on Tuesday, March 31st
and this Friday’s photo of Miley makes her the first “LIFE cover” for the
website. 
Superstar and multi-platinum recording artist,
TV
Guide Magazine
reveals the definitive “who’s who” of sexy in its annual Sexiest Stars
issue—and, nabbing top honors this year for Sexiest Female Star and Sexiest Male
Star are Eva Longoria Parker and Simon Baker. Stay tuned for more from TV Guide
Magazine’s Sexiest Stars issue, on newsstands May 26th.
Yankee
slugger Alex Rodriguez sat down with DETAILS magazine just hours before the
steroids scandal broke wide open. Despite being confronted by SI about steroids,
what was the biggest concern on A-Rod’s mind? A Madonna song he mentioned to our
writer, Jason Gay. DETAILS plunges into the psyche of A-Rod as the
scandal of a lifetime was about to be revealed and what he must do to recover.
things
I have to work on. And that part is fun. Revealing the truth about yourself is
always good.”