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Industry News
Jun 29

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.

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Our Program
Jun 04

Jack White will lead the Page to Stage Summer Camp for The Homestead Playhouse

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.

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Industry News, acting
Jun 04

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.

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Fashion
Jun 04

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.

Kathy Anderson/The Times-PicayuneHillary 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.

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