Damon Writes About Clean Water WoesOctober 9th, 2009 MATT DAMON has poured his heart out about his travels to the poorest parts of the world in a new essay for U.S. magazine Parade.
Sharks Love PanettiereOctober 4th, 2009 Don't go swimming with HAYDEN PANETTIERE if you're terrified of sharks - the HEROES star is a magnet for the predators. The actress spends a lot of time in the water, surfing and protesting the killing of dolphins and whales - and she reveals she often finds herself swimming with sharks.
Biel To Take On Kilimanjaro With TimberlakeSeptember 25th, 2009 Actress JESSICA BIEL will join her boyfriend JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE to climb Mount Kilimanjaro this autumn (09) to raise money for charity. The Blade: Trinity star has joined the team of celebrities recruited by Ethiopian-born singer Kenna to scale the 9,000-foot (5,890-metre) African peak as part of a fundraising and awareness effort for the worldwide water crisis.
Jessica Biel to climb Mt Kilimanjaro for charitySeptember 25th, 2009 LONDON - Actress Jessica Biel will join her boyfriend Justin Timberlake to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to raise money for charity. The actress has joined the team of celebrities recruited by Ethiopian-born singer Kenna to scale the 5,895-metre African peak as part of a fundraising and awareness effort for the worldwide water crisis, reported imdb.com.
Matt Damon helps get clean waterSeptember 24th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood star Matt Damon is using his popularity to help provide clean water to people living in poverty-stricken Haiti. This is an initiative by the actor as part of his non-profit company water.org, which he launched earlier this year.
Goodwin Backs Puppy Power CampaignSeptember 24th, 2009 Stars including GINNIFER GOODWIN and MYA are spearheading a new canine charity campaign to stop pet stores selling puppies. The ladies attended the Stop Puppy Mills Humane Society benefit on Tuesday night (22Sep09) and are speaking out about the practice of selling pups kept in inhumane conditions.
Damon Unveils Haiti Water InitiativeSeptember 24th, 2009 MATT DAMON is using his star status to help provide clean water to thousands of people living in poverty-stricken Haiti. The Bourne Supremacy star created non-profit company Water.org earlier this year (09) when he merged his H2O Africa charity with WaterPartners International.
Halliwell Launches Nepal CampaignSeptember 9th, 2009 Former SPICE GIRLS star GERI HALLIWELL has launched a campaign to help women in Nepal. The singer has been in the country since Sunday (06Sep09) and is using the trip to visit female citizens in the south-west of the country and raise awareness of the gender-based violence facing women there.
Metallica Moviemaker Shoots Rainforest Horror Documentary With StylerAugust 26th, 2009 The director behind METALLICA's gripping movie SOME KIND OF MONSTER has teamed up with STING's wife TRUDIE STYLER to shoot a new documentary about the destruction of the rainforest. The film, Crude, chronicles an eye-opening trip Joe Berlinger and Styler took to Ecuador, and the activist actress/producer admits some of the sights she witnessed will haunt her forever.
Clean sweep: Readers prefer "Julia" to "Julie"August 10th, 2009 "Julia" cleans up "Julie" among readersNEW YORK —On paper and on screen, "Julia" is stealing the show from "Julie."
Meryl Streep's performance as Julia Child in "Julie & Julia," which opened last weekend, has helped return the late chef's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," a classic published nearly 50 years ago, to the top of best-seller lists. On Monday, a $40 hardcover of "Mastering" topped the charts of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com, easily outpacing a $7.99 paperback of the book that gave the film its title, "Julie & Julia" — Julie Powell's memoir about spending a year preparing all the recipes in Child's book.
Bar Refaeli launches new ad campaign for RampageAugust 10th, 2009 LONDON - Bar Refaeli set the stage on fire as the model launched a new ad campaign for the fashion chain Rampage. Apart from Rampage, Refaeli has bagged many other lucrative deals after her rivals Gisele Bundchen, Heidi Klum, and Adriana Lima, 28, all got pregnant at the same time, reports the Daily Star.
Matt Damon visit India for his quest on clean waterJuly 23rd, 2009 Oscar winning Hollywood star Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting) was in Delhi and Chennai in India this week for his H2O Africa Foundation, which aims at raising awareness about clean water initiatives. Damon the spokesperson and co-founder of this Foundation (2006), has undertaken the projects in Uganda, Central African Republic, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Niger.
Matt Damon launches campaign to provide clean waterJuly 15th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood actor Matt Damon has launched a new charity drive to provide millions of impoverished people with clean drinking water. The Bourne Ultimatum actor has co-founded Water.org in collaboration with humanitarian Gary White.
Amazon lowers price of Kindle electronic reader to $299 from $359July 8th, 2009 Amazon lowers Kindle e-book reader price to $299NEW YORK — Amazon.com Inc. cut the price of its Kindle electronic reading device to $299 on Wednesday in an effort to attract more bookworms and make the gadget a mainstream hit.
CBS aggressively trying to tout its successes for advertising gainsMay 4th, 2009 CBS launches unprecedented ad campaignNEW YORK — CBS is launching an unprecedented campaign to publicize its prime-time successes weeks in advance of the year's most important ad sales season, trying not to be dragged down by the economy and struggling rivals. It includes a front-page ad Monday in The New York Times, a USA Today section front ad and commercials throughout CBS television, radio and the Internet.
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