by on June 19, 2013 Leave a Comment

Sopranos Star, James Gandolfini Reported Dead at 51

Los Angeles, June 19, 2013

James Gandolfini, star of HBO’s “The Sopranos” and most recently the feature film, “Not Fade Away” has died of a possible heart attack in Rome.  He was 51.

Gandolfini was in Italy to attend the 59th Taormina Film Festival in Sicily — and he was scheduled to participate in a festival event this weekend with Italian director Gabriele Muccino.

Gandolfini shot to fame playing a hitman in the 1993 hit “True Romance” … and quickly became a Hollywood legend when he was cast as Tony Soprano in 1999.  He won 3 Emmy awards for the role during the show’s 6 season run.

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by on June 13, 2013 Leave a Comment

Ciroc Vodka Hosts Downton Abbey Event

Los Angeles: June 13, 2013

Ciroc Vodka hosted one of the more stately and lavish events last night—in keeping with the show’s elegant hauteur—for PBS Masterpiece Theater’s hit Downton Abbey at the TelevisionAn Evening with Dowton Abbey After-Party presented by Ciroc Ultra Premium Vodka Academy in North Hollywood. Cast members Rob James-Collier, Phyllis Logan, Joanne Froggatt, Michelle Dockery, Elizabeth McGovern, the show writer/creator Julian Fellowes and Executive Producer Gareth Neame hosted a Q&A moderated Deadline Hollywood’s Pete Hammond.  Other celebrity guests included Bewitched’s beguiling Tabitha, Erin Murphy. Ciroc spokesperson Diddy was not present at the Q&A, although An Evening with Dowton Abbey After-Party presented by Ciroc Ultra Premium VodkaFellowes said that he was impressed with the rap mogul’s recent Funny or Die parody of the PBS program.

After the presentation, the show’s cast, creator and producer kindly mingled with the voters–many of them fans as breathless as any member of the public kept them busy signing autographs and taking mobile phone photos for hours.  But Downton celebs still found time to enjoy the signature Ciroc cocktails with MurphyAn Evening with Dowton Abbey After-Party presented by Ciroc Ultra Premium Vodka enjoying the Frenchside (Ciroc with simple syrup, lemon juice and mint; Frogget enjoying the Ciroc White Peach (Ciroc Peach and ginger ale); Collier the Coconut Caprioska (Ciroc Coconut with LimeAn Evening with Dowton Abbey After-Party presented by Ciroc Ultra Premium Vodka and ginger syrup.  Fellowes stuck with Hint Water.   Guests mauled hors d’oeuvres from The One Group’s STK; other sponsors included Hint Water and hot and iced Ahmad London tea.

Photo Credit:Colin Young-Wolff

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by on June 11, 2013 Leave a Comment

Love Never Dies. Laughs Never Stop.

Reviewed June 9, 2013 by Palmerston Hughes

Half way through the play “You Make Me Physically Ill: Season 01, Episode 2: Love Never Dies” the character of “Jo” (Faith Hall) walks on stage and asks, “what the fuck is going on here?”  And that’s exactly what you will be wondering as you watch this tight little one hour of insanity and sexual perversion unfold at the Elephant Theater in Los Angeles.

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But logic is not what you’re there for. Expecting “Love Never Dies” to make perfect sense is like going to a strip club for a higher education, or watching porn to gain insight into the world of politics.

Okay, if you really need to know, the story goes something like this. John, the demented head of a family of misfits has invested his life savings to put on a show starring himself and his lusty daughters Jennifer, Jaclyn, and Sally. Unable to afford an actual theater John manages to book time in a local strip club where he stages his musical, a ripped off work based on Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Love Never Dies.”  Jennifer’s boyfriend, Will and his buddy, Eddie, try to stop the show but are foiled by the handsome “perfect man,” Jason.

Written by award winning theater director, Roger Mathey, who just scored a home run with his recently closed revival “Trainspotting” at the same venue, “Love Never Dies” is a jaw droppingly hilarious, politically incorrect piece of absurd entertainment that will make you cringeLove Never Dies as you laugh your ass off.

As with the first “episode” of “You Make Me Physically Ill,” Mathey again manages to push the envelope, this time perhaps even further.  Episode 2 is soft-core theater through and through.  If this were a real TV show ratings would be through the roof.

The able cast consisting of Katie Aquino, Amanda Rae Castruita, Joshua Hensley, Michael Lutheran, Travis McHenry, Emily Claire Tisler, Karl Wade, Faith Hall, Heidi Kendrick and Jacob Wolber dive right in and play along with the madness, all of them committed to the high jinx in this fast paced comedy.  Even the audience gets in the act by being invited to throw play money at the young ladies as they work the pole in the strip club scenes. Take that as you will.

Complete with a soundtrack that consists of some of your favorite hit songs, “Love Never Dies” plays June 16th @ 4pm, June 20 @ 7 pm, June 24 @ 8:30 pm, June 29 @ 7pm at the Elephant Theatre, 6322 Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90038. Tickets are $10.

The show is a part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.

For reservations go to: http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/1379

 

 

 

 

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by on June 5, 2013 Leave a Comment

Michael Jackson’s Daughter, Paris, Rushed to Hospital

SUICIDE MAY HAVE BEEN ATTEMPTED

Hollywood, CA: June 5, 2013

Michael Jackson’s 15-year-old daughter Paris was hospitalized early Wednesday morning,Paris Jackson according to TMZ.

Jackson’s only daughter may have been attempting suicide, the gossip site reports. Paris was taken to a hospital at 2 a.m., according to the site, after a 911 caller stated she had cut her wrists.
The teen most recently tweeted on early Wednesday: “yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away now it looks as though they’re here to stay.” 
She also wrote: “I wonder why tears are salty?”Michael Jackson had three children Prince, Paris and Blanket.Paris was recently reported to be bonding with her birth mother, Debbie Rowe, who was married to Jackson from 1996 to 1999.

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by on May 14, 2013 Leave a Comment

Angelina Jolie Has Double Mastectomy

 

May 13, 2013

Actress Angelina Jolie revealed in a New York Times op-ed article that she had a double mastectomy after discovering she carried the BRCA1 gene, which dramatically increases a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

Jolie’s doctors estimated she had an 87 percent riskangelina_jolie1a_300x400 of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer, she said.  But she cautioned, every woman’s risk is different.

Jolie’s mother died of ovarian cancer at 56-years-old.

The actress had kept the procedure a secret from the public for past several months and her revelation has come as a shock and a surprise to those hearing the news.

Click here to read the full story at NYTimes.com

 

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