Miley Cyrustalks about turning down the film role of Ramona for her pal Selena Gomez. Actress Christina Applegate and Martyn Lenoble are having a baby. And here’s our top ten, for the day that was, Tuesday July 21st 2010. All in a Hollywood day.
Love and marriage are in the air for Kelly Bundy, America’s sweetheart. The Express Night Out website is reporting that Christina Applegate is engaged to marry musician Martyn Lenoble. Applegate’s publicist, Ame Van Iden, said Friday that the couple of two years became betrothed on Valentine’s Day. This will be the second marriage for both the actress and the Dutch rocker. No wedding date has been set. How sweet.
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Christina Arguilera is going for the Queen of the Club Scene title, by the sounds of things, from this preview of Not Myself Tonight –Arguilera’s first comeback single off her album, Bionic.
Diva’s screaming to electronic music is loved all across Europe, so she’s onto a winner for American pop music marketing. Nice one!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.30.2010~
Christina Applegate is a Hollywood actress who inspires in her high profile and much publicized recovery from cancer. Go here to see video of Applegate’s behind the scenes photoshoot for Women’s Health Magazine, as Applegate contributes to cancer awareness.
To support women’s rehabilitation from cancer, while being beauty conscious, this brilliant website–Cancer and Careers, allows you to buy beauty products while donating to cancer survivors well being. Impressive charitable branding of beauty products!
Going by Adam’s totally ridonkulous For Your Entertainmnt album cover, the gay performance artist and entertainer needs a truckload of beauty products! He’s high maintenance, as you would say in West Hollywood.
To keep it ‘real,’ you might want to get Adam a sandblaster too, from the Home Depot Store, with your gift purchase to assist Glambert in getting his war paint face off a bit quicker each day, to save time with his busy star schedule.
The Huskie Sandblasting Kit “designed to remove rust, scale and paint as well as etch glass and weather wood” looks like Adam’s hot ticket, for only $9. Adam Lambert is like America’s gay-white-male, Rihanna of pop on this cover. It took a lot of make up to achieve this ‘futuristic’ out-of-space, comsic, gay vision. Adam knows that aliens are the hot new trend in Hollywood after vampires have run their course at the box office, in 2012.
All humor aside, donate to support women recovering from cancer in their careers today and buy Adam’s album, that features the single Time For Miracles from the 2012 movie soundtrack, if you like his music.
Go Christina Applegate and Adam Lambert! And a Great Beauty Branding Award should get dolled out to Cancer and Careers innovation in marketing today. They are just too awesome!
[Adam Lambert Album Cover Art courtesy of OhNoTheyDidn't]
Kia Ora (hello). Some of you are asking me why I don’t write much poetry these days and just blog about celebrities. So this one’s for you. It’s a poem submitted for Whetu Moana Lua, poetry anthology collection of Maori and Polynesian Poets around the world. Editors are: Robert Sullivan, Reina Whaitiri and Dr Albert Wendt. Originally, I wrote for Whetu Moana when being trained by author and professor, Witi Ihimaera, in the art of creative writing.
To enjoy and appreciate my poetry for its inflections of the Maori language, I recommend using this tool, to understand words you may not have heard of before. Being a hori (Maori) in Hollywood is a pioneering thing, so the online Maori dictionary will help any of you LA types reading it.
My poems from Whetu Moana I, are taught in Universities in America (the mainland), New Zealand, Hawaii, the UK and Edinburgh Scotland to name a few. So…. I’m shouting this out to all you guys and dolls today doing English Literature progams around the world. Thanks for reading poetry. And most importantly, may you all continue to write your own poetry too.
The Lee Denim website, gives this story from Christina who survived a double mastectomy radical surgery, chemotherapy and radio therapy in her fight against breast cancer. Love this woman! By the way, Horis (Maori Women) have the highest breast cancer rate in the world. Let’s make a change. Christina says:
“In 2003, I had the pleasure of serving as the Lead Ambassador for Lee National Denim Day®. As I return as the 2009 Ambassador, the importance of this campaign has become even more real to me. Last year, I was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. I learned from genetic testing that I have a mutation in the BRCA 1 gene which makes me more susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer. As a result, my doctor ordered a variety of screening tests to try to detect cancer in its earliest stages (when it is most treatable), and it saved my life. So this year, I am proud to return to Lee National Denim Day not only as the 2009 Ambassador, but as a survivor doing all I can for this cause. By joining me and wearing jeans on Friday, October 2, you can help fund the important work of my friends at the Women’s Cancer Programs of EIF. This year, I’m excited to announce that a portion of funds raised will also support my personal foundation – Right Action for Women. My hope is that with Right Action for Women, we help women at increased risk for breast cancer gain access to the information and tests that they need to beat this disease. Together, we can raise millions to support breast cancer research and awareness. It’s so simple and so powerful. I truly believe that it is events like this that help save lives. All it takes is $5 dollars to make a difference. So join me on October 2. I have a great feeling that with your help, this could be the best year yet! Sincerely, Christina Applegate.”
To donate to breast cancer prevention and research for a cure, go here:
Kai Ora, a cookbook by New Zealand Television cook extraordinaire, Anne Thorp is the book that actress Christina Applegate and anyone whose ever battled with breast cancer should not only read, but have as their daily taste guide of survival in their Hollywood kitchens.
The recipes in here provide both fantastic culinary fare that could hold their own in any A-List Hollywood restaurant like Besos and The Ivy, but each recipe is a breast cancer buster. Cancer recovery is enhanced with the healthy, gourmet quality recipes in this book. Breast cancer survivor and author Anne Thorp is living proof of that. Read Kai Ora asap; gift it to a friend who is battling with any form of cancer and enjoy the spirit of giving and life lived at its fullest within it’s delectable pages. The book is as beautifully produced as Anne’s exquisite food showcased in it. The best food in the world.
This guest review of the book Kai Ora by the author and TV cooking star, Anne Thorp is provided by Graham Beattie of Beatties Book Blog:
KAI ORA
Fresh, healthy food made with aroha
Anne Thorp
Random House – $49.99
I have had the great good fortune to attend many book launches during the 40 years I have been involed in the book world but few would compare to this one.
First off there was live entertainment throughout what proved to be a four course sit-down lunch at one of Ponsonby’s finest and most durable restaurants, SPQR.
Secondly the food was all from the book being launched and it was absolutely divine!
Look at this, makes a change from my usual lunch of ham and tomato sandwiches!
Here’s the menu as described to us by chef/author Anne Thorpe:
Caprese Salad - A little iconic starter of Buffalo mozzarella
Tasty prosciutto ham, Vine ripened tomatoes, Sweet basil and flaky salt
Served with delicious OliveNZ extra virgin olive oil
Paua Risotto The paua arrives fresh on the day from the Far North, thanks to commercial free-diver Sam Kereopa. I’m combining it with the creamiest, tastiest Arborio rice and I can tell you now, this dish is truly wicked! Koura Linguine (pic left) Sam’s out on the Hauraki harvesting crayfish for this event. He’ll be straight in the water as soon as he returns from the Far North. You will thoroughly enjoy this super-fresh dish, served with the beautiful flavours of fresh limes, lemongrass, ginger, garlic, chilli and tonnes of aroha!
Aporo & Calvados Organic New Zealand apples oven-roasted and flambéed with Calvados liqueur
Served with the sexy French St Agur cheese
These guys practice environmentally sustainable practices and run the world’s first winery to be constructed entirely under the green building code. I understand too that Yealands is NZ’s largest privately-owned vineyard. Built from scratch in 2002 and the wines were a perfect food match. I tried both the Pinot Gris and the Resiling and both were excellent.
The event, for that is what it was, was superbly MC’d by Matai Smith , while the entertainment was provided by Cydel, Ardijah’s Betty-Anne (love that ukelele babe!) and Ryan, and cousin of the author, super star Whirimako Black ,(I have all her CD’s, bought at Matakana’s Village Bookshop).
So it was stunning food, great music and most pleasant company. I had the privilege of being on the Random House table with publisher Nicola Legat, publicist Sarah Thornton, Random House author Denise L’Estrange-Corbet , book designer Olivia Haddon and the man who wrote the foreword to the book, Cancer Busting Food, Anne’s surgeon , Trevor Smith.
What a lunch, what a book launch.
As publisher Nicola Legat ,(how many books a year does this woman launch ?, and she does them all so well), said in her opening remarks, this is unique New Zealand food being presented to a mainstream audience and I reckon she was spot on.
The recipes in this superb book (with spectacular photography by Aaron McLean) feature mainly kai moana (seafood) and Anne brings to these recipes a unique Maori emphasis and flavour. She is of course a renowned TV chef but more importantly she is a superb chef/hostess in her own home and I am greatly privileged to have been one of those who has enjoyed the hospitality of Anne, and barrister husband Fred (another Gisbore old boy!), in their wonderful beach home on the Nortland coast (pic left).
Yes, it was indeed a memorable lunch. I may need a nap before dinner! And as an aside I don’t believe I have ever been to a book launch with such a large number of media people present, some working while others enjoyed the lunch and entertainment.
Thanks to Anne, Random House, our entertainers, and SPQR, owner Chris Rupe, (an old friend of the author), was even waiting on the tables himself along with James, maitre’d extraordinaire.!
Former Managing Director/Publisher of Penguin Books NZ Ltd., and Scholastic NZ Ltd. Former Books & Poetry Editor, Citymix Magazine. Now works as a consultant within the publishing industry and as a book reviewer, book blogger and judge of book awards,
.The most poignant breast cancer awareness moment in America television occurred on So you Think You Can Dance when Melissa and Ade danced to Maxwell’s A Woman’s Worth.
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.The choreography by Tice Diorio, moved America as his dance piece maps the journey of a dear friend of Tice’s who is battling with breast cancer. It’s a stunning moment, that reminds us that life is precious and good health is a gift from God. The dance number, below, also has Emmys buzz here in Hollywood already.
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.If you would like to order Kai Ora from Anne Thorp and gift this book to a friend who is battling breast cancer towards their healthy total recovery, then go here and give a gift of hope today.
Kai Ora means healthy eating or literally, ‘the food of life.’
Some insightful person must have aptly named the Kai Ora TV show and the TV series’ consequent book very well. It is what it is.
Piers Morgan of Britain’s Got Talent and Americas Got Talent, gets his gear off to promote Flame. You just know Simon Cowell got asked to do this but turned it down. Piers looks good.
No. It’s NOT Chelsea Handler of Chelsea Lately, it’s Christina Applegate of Samantha Who?
Applegate’s show has been axed due to monetary cut backs sighted as being the reason, Variety reports. Well, at least Christina Applegate is still People Magazine’s #1 Most Beautiful person this year, if its any small consolation to the blonde starlet.
Applegate has been Paulina Porizkova-ed Tyra Banks style and is now without a job due to the $! Sad.
[image source] I’ve been scratching my head all day, as to why People Magazine (the second biggest seller in the US each week) would list Christina Applegate as their most beautiful peep in their Top 100 list. All day, I was blonder than Applegate herself, and couldn’t work it out, until I saw this image.
Of course, greatness feeds into greatness. (more…)
People Magazine released it’s Top 100 Most Beautiful People. Although I think Christina Applegate is a lovely girl, whose surviving cancer story is inspiring, she is NOT the most beautiful person in America, let alone the world.
This perhaps indicates, that People need a change of leadership at the helm, that’s a little bit more relevant and in tune with what true beauty is and how audiences perceive that outside of People’s editor’s single-eyed lens. (more…)
KAI ORA
Piers Morgan of Britain’s Got Talent and Americas Got Talent, gets his gear off to promote Flame. You just know Simon Cowell got asked to do this but turned it down. Piers looks good.
Splash, Wenn.com
Ted Harbert (The Silver Fox) & Chelsea Handler – E Entertanment
