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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.

Read more of President Barack Obama’s heartfelt essay


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

Or online at: www.lakersstore.com
 


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.

Check out Caan's images on LIFE.com: CLICK HERE


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.”

Read the full interview:  CLICKING HERE


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.
 
For more on Hugh Jackman
CLICK HERE


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
CNN's Larry King interviews actor Michael J. Fox in New York during a taping of Larry King Live on Wednesday_ April 8_ 2009.Please credit photographs Lorenzo BevilaquaCNN
Actor/author MICHAEL J. FOX appears tonight on CNN’s Larry King Live discussing his new book Always Looking 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.

Webstie: www.life.com

 


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.

For a sneak peek of other smokin’ stars who made the cut, visit www.tvguidemagazine.com .

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?”

The full story can be found just  CLICKHERE

 




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