On June 4, 2008, we said, ‘Welcome,’ to Planet Green, Discovery’s new channel replacing Discovery Home. And the welcome is felt extra-strongly because one of the channel’s personalities and board advisers is none other than Lucire editor-at-large Summer Rayne Oakes. She tells me that there is a Wasted show that is based on the one […]
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Glamour UK announces star-studded 2008 award winners
The Spice Girls are the band of the year, in the Glamour UK Women of the Year awards (‘the Glammies’) held Tuesday at Berkeley Square Gardens, London. The rest of the winners were popular choices, as can be expected from a reader poll-based award ceremony: Kate Moss is the magazine’s entrepreneur of the year; Joanna […]
My friends Donna Spangler and Richie Benveniste have been in contact with Donna’s new TV comedy, Weather Girls. They’ve just come back from Cannes, as Weather Girls has sold in Europe. Donna produces, and stars with Lynne Langdon (who also wrote and directed the première episode) and Simona Fusco Stratten. The Cannes première […]
Film director Sydney Pollack, 73, dies
Oscar-winning ?lm director Sydney Pollack, 73, has passed away in Los Angeles, according to his publicist, Leslee Dart. He had been suffering from cancer. Pollack was best known for directing They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, with Jane Fonda; Tootsie, with Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange; and Out of Africa, with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. […]
Puma supports The Day after Peace screening at Cannes
Puma supported the ?rst screening of the ?lm The Day after Peace, a documentary by ?lmmaker and Peace One Day founder Jeremy Gilley during the 61st Cannes Film Festival. Featuring football player David Beckham and actors Jude Law and Jonny Lee Miller, the movie aims at promoting World Peace Day (September 21) in countries like […]
The Young and the Restless launches online fashion magazine
TV soap The Young and the Restless is launching an extensive online fashion and lifestyle magazine, RestlessStyle.com, to coincide with the launch of its in-show print magazine Restless Style. The site offers the latest runway trends, fresh beauty tips and red carpet coverage, in addition to such things as videos, polls, photo galleries and horoscopes. […]
Neutrogena, Jennifer Garner partner on sun safety
Neutrogena has partnered with Self magazine and Jennifer Garner to unveil what the company calls The Roadmap to Healthy Skin, a viral campaign discussing sun safety and skin cancer awareness. The Roadmap appears in the May 2008 issue of Self, stressing the importance of self-examination to prevent skin cancer and promote early detection. Self […]
More on the Naomi Watts–Thierry Mugler Angel campaign
More details are emerging about the Naomi Watts advertisements for Thierry Mugler Angel, from the New York, rather than French, end of the business: Naomi Watts was the inspired choice for Thierry Mugler, over and above her beauty and her star image. Displaying a modern touch, the actress projects a personality that blends sensuality, voluptuousness […]
Audrey Tautou, Jean-Pierre Jeunet collaborate on Chanel No. 5 ad
Chanel has chosen Jean-Pierre Jeunet to direct the next No. 5 advertising film, starring actress Audrey Tautou starring in the lead role. Jeunet had directed Tautou already in the César- and BAFTA-winning Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (Amélie in English) and Un long dimanche de fiançailles (The Long Engagement). The Chanel advertisement will be […]
Naomi Watts is new face of Thierry Mugler Angel fragrance
Actress Naomi Watts is the new face of the Thierry Mugler Angel fragrance, it was announced ahead of her début at the Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The company says that Watts is ‘A true embodiment of the fragrance itself and all it represents’. The campaign breaks […]