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Archive for September, 2010

Megan Jackson Says Goodbye To Robert Pattinson, EmsCharityKiss

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
24 June 2010 - Los Angeles, California - Robert Pattinson. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Los Angeles Premiere at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival held at Nokia Theatre LA Live. Photo Credit: Charles Harris/AdMedia

I introduced you to her back in July 2009. We watched as the money she raised for mental health awareness and research continued to climb. We even tried to help her spread the word by writing an open letter to Ellen DeGeneres.

So, it’s with a bittersweet mood that I announce Megan Jackson, the mastermind behind EmsCharityKiss, a campaign geared toward increasing mental health awareness and raising money for research by attempting to get everyone’s favorite vamp Edward Cullen Robert Pattinson in on the action, has officially called it quits.

I say bittersweet because although I’m sad the campaign has come to an end, I’m so thrilled for Megan on a completely different level. Not only did she raise money for mental health awareness and research, but she grew and learned so much during her work with EmsCharityKiss.

She might not have gotten to smooch it up with RPattz, but she definitely didn’t walk away from the experience empty handed.

Read on for Megan’s official statement on the end of EmsCharityKiss. Even if you haven’t been following Megan, her campaign, and her journey toward her first kiss, this statement will mean something to you.

“The Last Exorcism” Producer Eli Roth On Mental Illness

Friday, September 3rd, 2010
24 August 2010 - Hollywood, California - Eli Roth, Producer. The Last Exorcism Los Angeles Premiere held at Arclight Cinemas. Photo Credit: Byron Purvis/AdMedia

The Last Exorcism has been in theaters for a week now and, according to Rolling Stone‘s Peter Travers (who gave it three out of four stars), the film “delivers the heebie-jeebie goods.”

Producer Eli Roth talked with Reuters last week and, unsurprisingly, had a thing or two to say about mental illness.

I say “unsurprisingly” not because Roth’s father was a professor of psychiatry at Harvard University, but because whenever a movie of The Last Exorcism‘s theme comes out, it’s pretty common for a link related to mental illness to show up.

In this case, the link was there before the movie was even a twinkle in Roth’s eye:

Sadie Frost Talks Depression, Cutting In Memoir “Crazy Days”

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Jude Law and wife Sadie Frost arrive at the premiere of the Dreamworks SKG film 'Road to Perdition' at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City, July 9, 2002. Photo by Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect.

It’s been seven years since their divorce, and now Sadie Frost, actress and ex-wife of Jude Law, is releasing Crazy Days, a tell-all memoir highlighting everything from how the couple met, married, and split, to her severe postpartum depression, cutting, and time in a mental institution.

The memoir won’t hit shelves for a few more days, but it’s already been the source of some legal drama when, according to The Huffington Post, Jude Law “issued a 100-page writ last month demanding that all passages of the book referring to their marriage be removed. He got a settlement in court.”

I’m not quite sure what that means exactly (he won? he got some money to deal with it? what?), but according to TV.com, Frost puts a lot of blame on Law for her past mental health troubles.

Hmm.

Tyra Banks Promoting Super Skinny Waists? Doubtful.

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
27 March 2010 - Westwood, California - Tyra Banks. Nickelodeon's 23rd Annual Kids' Choice Awards held at the UCLA Pauley Pavilion. Photo Credit: Byron Purvis/AdMedia

For the most part, celebrity news is just like any other news. What’s dropping jaws on Monday is lining bird cages on Friday.

And, there’s always a “bigger” and “juicier” story coming along to make sure that happens.

Shortly after the promo for America’s Next Top Model aired – you know, the one featuring Tyra Banks commenting on a contestant’s extremely skinny waist – Jennifer Aniston blundered her way through a spot on Live with Regis and Kelly, and after a swiftly issued apology, Tyra was forgotten.

However, I haven’t forgotten, and it’s not as much what Tyra said that I’m thinking about; rather, it’s whether or not she should have needed to apologize.

You can read the entire apology over at Tyra.com, but in short, the meat of the apology begins and ends as such:

On behalf of the entire Top Model team, I am truly sorry for the style in which the Top Model promo clip was presented [...] Sometimes in the quest to have fun in a limited amount of time, especially in a 20-second promo, our overarching message can be misconstrued, and in this case it most certainly was.

Janice Dickinson, who worked with America’s Next Top Model for five years, isn’t buying it, claiming:

Everything they shoot is intentional. Don’t tell me different. [...] Tyra is the executive producer of that show…It’s her show. She’s very controlling. She’s the hardest working woman on that show. She has her finger on that pulse – trust me.

But what I’m having trouble understanding is…what was intentional?

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