On Sept. 10
at 8 p.m. ET, the four major TV networks will all air a star-packed Stand Up to
Cancer telethon, featuring appearances by Reese
Witherspoon, Stevie Wonder, and Queen Latifah alongside cancer survivors
like Lance Armstrong and Christina Applegate. Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, and
Brian Williams will serve as joint hosts of the event. The last Stand Up to
Cancer benefit in 2008 raised over $100 million for research.
An extraordinary line-up of
actors, musicians, athletes and journalists have banded together for Stand Up To
Cancer (SU2C), the groundbreaking initiative aimed at raising funds to
accelerate innovative cancer research bringing new therapies to patients quickly
that will saves lives now. Stand Up To Cancer will return to primetime TV on
September 10, 2010, at 8PM EST & PST / 7PM CT. The one-hour fundraising event
will be simulcast live and commercial-free on ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, Bio, Discovery
Health, E!, G4, HBO, HBO Latino, MLB Network, mun2, Showtime, Smithsonian
Channel, The Style Network, TV One, and VH1.
Executive produced by Laura Ziskin, the special will be hosted Katie Couric,
Diane Sawyer, and Brian Williams (the anchors, respectively, of the CBS, ABC and
NBC evening news programs), and will feature numerous celebrity cancer survivors
who exemplify that cancer can affect even the smartest, strongest and toughest
people in our lives. Those expected to participate include Christina Applegate,
Lance Armstrong, Fran Drescher, Elizabeth Edwards, Delta Goodrem, Michael C.
Hall, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Sharon Osbourne, Robin Roberts, Maura Tierney, Sofia
Vergara, Marissa Jaret Winokur and Ethan Zohn. The broadcast will be dedicated
to the 12 million U.S. cancer survivors and illustrate how groundbreaking
research can change the tide in the fight against the disease. Updates will be
provided on the work of the five Stand Up To Cancer Dream Teams, and Dr. Sanjay
Gupta, CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent, will report on other new developments.
One of the musical performances will be an all-star collaboration led by Stevie
Wonder with Natasha Bedingfield, Queen Latifah, Martina McBride, Aaron Neville,
and Dave Stewart.
How did you know this Trailer
By Meya, posted on august 14. 2010, News
Columbia
Pictures has released the trailer, via
Yahoo,
for HOW DO YOU KNOW the latest dramedy from legendary
James L. Brooks starring Owen Wilson and Paul
Rudd, both falling for the same girl, Reese Witherspoon,
and along the way there’s Brooks’ go-to man Jack Nicholson (Terms
Of Endearment, As Good As It Gets).
The trailer’s got a decent comical charm, I wouldn’t consider it hilarious but
that’s how it usually is with Brooks’ movies, with sense of humor that tends to
be more calmed and they would have just the right dose of emotional awakening
and self-realization. This romantic comedy that centers on the love triangle
between professional softball player Lisa Jorgenson, a corporate executive, and
a major-league pitcher, opens on the same weekend as TRON LEGACY, December 17th,
2010. Good luck with that, Mr. Brooks! Check out the trailer:
Reese and Jim NOT Seeking Premarital Counseling!
By Meya, posted on august 14. 2010, News
For those who
might have thought that Reese and
boyfriend Jim Toth are ready to get married,
here's the actress's representative response: "Not true. Period".This comes as a
reaction to one report saying the couple is seeking premarital counseling.
It looks like they are "both happy with the way things are", one source close to
the pair told People.
Recently, the Oscar winner and her agent boyfriend of seven months have been
spotted in Nashville. The couple enjoyed a down-home meal at Music City's
Loveless Café with her mom and kids, Ava and Deacon.
"Jim has had business in Nashville before. but this was nice that they were
there together", another source said.
Reese to play Peggy Lee in biopic!
By Meya, posted on august 14. 2010, News
The actress, who won an Oscar in 2005
for portraying June Carter in "Walk the Line," is pulling together an untitled
biopic about Peggy Lee with writer-director Nora Ephron, reports Variety. Though
Witherspoon is still negotiating to star, she is producing the Fox 2000 project
with Marc Platt.
Witherspoon secured rights to the vocalist's life from the Lee estate and
brought the project to the studio. She then approached Platt, who produced the "Legally
Blonde" movies, and Ephron, who counts herself a major fan of Lee's music.
Lee, who got her start in the 1940s singing for Benny Goodman's band, went on to
record popular jazz-influenced albums and compose for film soundtracks. She
appeared in the 1953 movie "The Jazz Singer" and the 1955 musical "Pete Kelly's
Blues," which earned her an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress. Her
songwriting and voice-over contributions to Disney's 1955 film "Lady and the
Tramp" eventually led to a lawsuit that won her video tape royalties decades
later.
Witherspoon's last live-action role was in the 2008 comedy "Four Christmases."
She returns to theaters in December with the James Brooks film "How Do You Know."
Ephron last wrote and directed "Julie & Julia."
Reese introduced Rob to her daughter Ava
By Meya, posted on august 1. 2010, News
Reese has introduced her costar Robert
Pattinson to her daughter Ava. The blonde actress helped her ten-year-old
daughter to meet the Twilight hunk, while they are shooting the movie Water for
Elephants. "Ava seemed especially excited to meet him," an onlooker told People.
"The
filming with Rob is going really well,"
added the source ource
"and Reese was excited for the kids to meet him."
