in case you’ve missed it, charitable giving is going Hollywood. What was formerly just a movement among billionaires—the Bill Gates- and Warren Buffett-inspired Giving Pledge—has gone public in a very big way, signing on the likes of celebrities and stars such as Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian, Richard Gere and Denzel Washington.
NEW YORK (June 8, 2011) — a group of New York-based actors have teamed up with a coalition of environmental organizations for a new online video that calls for lawmakers to protect the state’s world-class drinking water from a risky method of natural gas drilling called fracking.
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ROBOT LINGO: ”Lingodroids” chat to each other at the University of Queensland campus in Brisbane.
They’re not discussing the latest celebrity gossip or passing on stock tips just yet, but Australian robots have begun talking to each other – and in a language of their own devising.
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To the congregation of First Presbyterian Church of Lake Wales, where he serves as director of music, Treadway is a blessing to them.
At the conclusion of Sunday worship services, when the congregation usually files out of the sanctuary as notes swell out of the pipe organ, many folks remain in their seats listening to Treadway fill the air with music.
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Twilight actress Nikki Reed is engaged to American Idol finalist Paul McDonald, several celebrity news sites and blogs reported on Monday, June 6, 2011.
According to reports, Reed was wearing an engagement ring during the 2011 MTV Movie Awards. “He’s the one. He’s the one,” Reed was quoted saying by E! Online.
While retailers and television and music executives are unlikely to face legislation, a voluntary code is expected to be drawn up to ensure that children are not bombarded with sexual images.
Parents will be given more power to express their concern when youngsters are targeted with overtly sexual or commercial messages, with a new dedicated website which will allow them to report anything they find inappropriate.
While playing Red Faction: Armageddon — the new Martian spelunker-shooter about an exceptionally dim-witted space miner who accidentally causes planet-destroying natural disasters and then tries to fix them with a very big hammer — I found myself thinking that, in hindsight, Rampage has turned out to be one of the most important videogames ever. In Rampage, you played as a giant ape who was totally not King Kong, a giant lizard who was totally not Godzilla, or a giant werewolf who was totally not stolen from any famous movie franchise, because, for some ungodly reason, there has never been a movie about a giant werewolf. the gameplay was simple: You smashed things. Specifically, you smashed buildings, punching them into oblivion until their foundations crumbled. when you were done crushing one city, you moved on to another one.
Just in time for the Festival of Weeks, a Shavuot holiday music video (produced by "Rebbetzin TAP & Friends") reminds Jews around the world that Tuesday night is the time to "stay up all night!"
IT WAS described as “the trial of the century”, with media organisations clamouring for the minute details of a juicy murder case in which a Hollywood actor and American sporting hero was accused of killing his beautiful ex-wife and her friend.
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Tottenham are tracking Roma’s £12m-rated Montenegro international striker Mirko Vucinic. Full story: Daily Mirror
The White Hart Lane outfit hope to further improve their attacking options with a £12m swoop for Brazilian striker Leandro Damiao, after his club Internacional rejected an opening £10.5m bid earlier this week. Full story: Goal.com
You have to hand it to Rachel Griffiths. When she decides to take the caftan out of the lanai and onto the town, she commits. Read More …
MTV’s new Teen Wolf series is premiering on Sunday after the Movie Awards, and even though no wolves play basketball, I will be watching because: a) one of my friends works on the show, and b) I’m completely curious how the network rebooted a fluffy iconic movie into something sort of twisty and hormonally angsty, Read More …
Fortunately she wasn’t injured but I have a feeling that somebody got fired.
Que proposed to Dawn. Love is love and I hopes this is real because if they end up with a reality show…then we’ll know its just a publicity stunt.
Congrats to them both.