MSNBC has a terrific article on the best working child actors of today. These kids are the real pros of contemporary Hollywood and insight can be gained by taking a good look at who they are, how they are viewed in the industry and what makes them tick. To read the piece, go to: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25395487/
America’s teen safety activist, Dallas Jessup (16), is nominated for a 2008 Teen Choice Award. The 10th annual FOX special, hosted by Miley Cyrus and airing on August 8, 2008, honors the hottest teen icons in film, television, music, comedy, sports, fashion and this year includes the newest category of celebrity: Do Something’s Community Service Stars. Winners will be decided by online voting.
“It’s terrific to see FOX and Teen Choice recognizing Community Service
Stars. Kids learn from television and this group delivers the right message,”
said Jessup.
Jessup’s nomination is based on the success of her film Just Yell Fire,
which teaches girls 11 to 19 how to escape attackers; her non-profit of the
same name which has grown into 41 countries and distributed 500,000 copies of
the film for free; and her worldwide activism for the rights of teenage girls.
Jessup comes to Teen Choice after taking top honors in the Do Something award
competition.
Jessup joins a Who’s Who of the entertainment industry on the 2008 nominee
list including: Josh Holloway and Evangeline Lilly (who did cameos in Jessup’s
film Just Yell Fire), Hayden Panettiere, Justin Timberlake, Jonas Brothers,
Rihanna, Kanye West and others plus television series including Gossip Girl.
Jessup was recently inducted into the Hall of Fame for Caring Americans
and is taking on international sex trafficking next month with a two-week
speaking and teaching tour at 12 colleges and high schools in rural India. She
will begin her senior year at St. Mary’s Academy in Portland, Oregon and
travels more than 5,000 miles a month speaking at women’s events, law
enforcement conferences, and high schools across the country.
Online votes for Dallas can be made at http://www.teenchoiceawards.com/.
About Jessup — A CNN Hero and black belt martial artist, Jessup has
appeared on Good Morning America, Montel Williams Show, Today Show, and others
as well as being featured in magazines ranging from People to Teen. Her cause
is empowering teenage girls to fight back against sexual assault and
abduction. Her Just Yell Fire non-profit does seminars at schools and
conferences, trains teachers in Just Yell Fire skills, and lobbies for
mandatory self defense in America’s schools.
For their summer “Page to Stage Summer Camp,” The Homestead Playhouse has selected Academy of Cinema and Television Director, Jack White, as their camp leader. This exciting news is beneficial to students at the Academy of Cinema and Television as well as to the community. Contact information is below:
The Homestead Playhouse
Page to Stage Summer Camp
9797 E. Union Hills Dr., Scottsdale, AZ, 85255
(480) 585-1641
The Homestead Playhouse is a community theater founded in 2006 by the DC Ranch Community Council with the mission to engage patrons in high-quality theater and arts programming and inspire an artistic legacy within the community. The Homestead Playhouse performances are open to the public and feature casts comprising performers of all ages and skill levels from around the Valley.
By Kimberly Nordyke
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - “Akeelah and the Bee” star Keke Palmer has been cast as the lead in Nickelodeon’s live-action pilot “True Fashion.”
The tentatively titled project, described as “Big” meets “The Devil Wears Prada,” centers on a 15-year-old (Palmer) tapped to head the teen division of a major fashion label.
She has a passion for fashion but soon learns that corporate life has the same highs and lows as high school, complete with cliques and mean girls — but also with such cool perks as designing for up-and-coming rock stars and casting cute models.
Here is heart-warming story from Susan Langenhennig, Staff writer for The Times-Picayune that we felt most readers would enjoy.
It’s been a Cinderella-like spring for Hillary Clinton.
No, not that one.
Clinton, an 18 year old who just finished her junior year at Ben Franklin High School in New Orleans, was the winner of a recent TeenVogue contest for a $10,000 prom makeover for her school. Her one-paragraph entry scored 4,710 votes from magazine readers.
Hillary Clinton, an 18 year old who just finished her junior year at Ben Franklin High School in New Orleans, was the winner of a recent TeenVogue contest for a $10,000 prom makeover for her school. Pictured here with Garrett Brown.
Super delegates weren’t needed, but a Facebook.com page set up by a friend did help drum up support.
A student of creative writing at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, Clinton didn’t have to do much campaigning on behalf of her school. Franklin’s Phoenix-from-the-ashes-of-Katrina comeback makes for a compelling narrative and a deserving makeover recipient. Click here to read full story.
Happy Mother’s Day from the staff and instructors at the Academy of Cinema and Television!
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Not every one of these Mother’s Day celebrants is really a mom — but they play one on TV.
On-screen children honored their television mothers at “A Mother’s Day Salute to TV Moms,” an event put on by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Attendees included Marion Ross (”Happy Days”) and her TV offspring Erin Moran; Diahann Carroll (”Julia,” “Dynasty” and “A Different World”) and “World” co-star Jasmine Guy; Bonnie Franklin (”One Day at a Time”) and Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli; and Holland Taylor (”Two and a Half Men”) with Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen.
Child star Georgie is back in Narnia
Bradford schoolgirl Georgie Henley is all set to go back through the wardrobe to the magical land of Narnia and 10,000 fans will be able to join her in what is being billed as the biggest UK movie premiere in history.
Georgie, who attends Bradford Grammar School, has reprised her role as Lucy Pevensie, the youngest of the four siblings who journeyed to another world in the hit film The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe in 2005.
On June 26 the second book to be adapted from CS Lewis’s Narnia series, Prince Caspian, goes on general release, featuring 12-year-old former Ilkley Upstagers drama school student Georgie once again in a starring role. Read on…
Source: Telegraph & Argus Newspaper
Every year the TED Prizes are given to three people with wishes, along with $100,000 each to make them happen. In 2006, filmmaker Jehane Noujaim was a winner. Her wish: to bring the world together through film.
The result is Pangea Day, a four-hour multimedia event this Saturday hosted from six cities, including Los Angeles, and beamed to TVs, cellphones, and computers in more than 100 countries (in the United States, it will be televised on Current, and you can also watch on the Pangea Day site.)
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