Archive for February, 2009

Anna To Attend Australian Bush Fire Relief Event

From Hollywood United Football Club:

As many of you know, Bush fires that exceed any natural disaster in Australian history have devastated the State of Victoria in Australia. Entire towns and communities have been wiped out. The estimated death toll is expected to exceed 300 and there is the inestimable loss of homes, businesses and jobs. The cost of relief for the victims and rebuilding all that was lost will most likely run at $500 Million. Of course, no price can be placed on the loss of family and loved ones and the suffering caused by the loss of your community.

That’s why I’m asking the vast Australian community residing in Los Angeles to join me on February 28 for an afternoon of “Footy and Meat pies.” Hollywood United Football Club, in conjunction with our event sponsor, Aussie airline V Australia, present an afternoon where you can come with your families and watch your favorite Aussie celebs and fellow professionals play a short swift 7 aside tournament against a mix of American celebs and current and former pro soccer players. Participants will include Alexi Lalas, Anna Paquin, Danny Cannon, Billy Duffy, Nuno Bettencourt, Jesse Spencer, Gia Carides, Skeet Ulrich, Christian Olde Wolbers, Ben Lawson, Gilles Marini, Frank LeBoeuf, Richard Gough, Vinnie Jones, Donal Logue, Cameron Daddo, Dominic Purcell, Anthony LaPaglia, Michael Johns, David Lyons, Damon Herriman, Stephen Moyer, Poppy Montgomery, Simon Baker, Chris Harrison, Colin Hay, Gracie Otto, Kym Johnson, Jacqueline McKenzie, Paul Ashton, Suzy DeMarchi, Eric Braeden, Ioan Gruffudd and many more. It will be fast, fun and furious and a great afternoon for the whole family, where the LA Aussie community can join forces with the multi cultural LA American community in a show of support and relief for this terrible tragedy in our home, Australia.

The event will be held at Palisades Charter High School, 15777 Bowdoin Street, Pacific Palisades. The games will kick off at 10:30 a.m. To help raise funds donations will be welcomed at the gate. All money generated on the day will go directly to the Australian Red Cross. Snacks, soft drinks and meat pies will be available for purchase thanks to Foodink Catering and raffle tickets will be sold with various signed items including signed jerseys being offered up as prizes.

Please join me and a host of fellow Aussies in this event. In this time of tragedy and pain let’s do what we’ve always done. Throw in together and show we care.

If you would like to make a donation by check please mail to 11630 Chayote Street, #4. Los Angeles, CA, 90049 and make payable to Australian Red Cross. Ref. HUFC Donation. You can also make donations online at www.redcross.org.au and click ‘Make a Donation’.

February 27th, 2009 | No Comments

2009 Vanity Fair Oscar Party

Anna attended tonight’s Vanity Oscar Party. I’ve added photos from the arrivals and inside to the gallery. You can find previews and links below.

February 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

The Courageous Heart Of Irena Sendler Stills

I’ve just added the first stills from The Courageous Heart Of Irena Sendler to the gallery here.

February 12th, 2009 | No Comments

The Courageous Heart Of Irena Sendler Air Date

CBS issued a press release today including an air date and time, not to mention a name change to Miss Irena’s Children. The name of the film has been changed to The Courageous Heart Of Irena Sendler and will be airing Sunday, April 19 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

From CBS:

The drama is based on the courageous true story of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Irena Sendler (Paquin), who is credited with saving the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II. Academy Award winner and nominee Marcia Gay Harden (“Pollock,” “Mystic River”), Nathaniel Parker (“The Inspector Lynley Mysteries”) and Goran Visnjic (“ER”) also star. Harden plays Sendler’s mother, Janina, and Parker portrays Dr. Majkowski, the head of Warsaw’s Department of Health who helped Sendler obtain important resources for her mission. Visnjic plays Stefan, a former university friend of Sendler who was Jewish and with whom she fell in love when she started her clandestine work in the Warsaw ghetto.

As a Polish Catholic social worker in the early 1940s, Irena Sendler created and led a conspiracy of women who moved in and out of Warsaw’s Jewish Ghetto disguised as nurses employed by Warsaw’s Health Department. Though they worked under the guise of merely attempting to prevent and contain the spread of Typhus and Spotted Fever, Sendler and her brave cohorts emerged each time with the children of consenting Jewish parents. The children were sometimes sedated and hidden inside boxes, suitcases and coffins as a means of rescuing them from their imminent deportation to death camps. They were given new identities and placed with Polish families and in convents. Sendler kept a hidden record of their birth names and where they were placed with the hope that they would some day be reunited with their own families.

In 1943, the Nazis discovered Sendler’s daring and dangerous ruse and arrested her. She was tortured by Gestapo agents and suffered broken feet. On the day of her scheduled execution she was rescued by “Zegota,” the underground network with which she worked to save the Jewish children.

As a result of Sendler’s efforts, approximately 2,500 children were smuggled to safety. Not a single child she rescued was ever betrayed or discovered by the Nazis.

The movie is based on the authorized biography of the heroine, Mother of the Children of the Holocaust: The Irena Sendler Story, by Anna Mieszkowska, published in 2005.

In 2007 Sendler was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. That same year, Hallmark Hall of Fame acquired exclusive movie rights to the book and negotiated life-rights with Sendler and her family members. Sendler died on May 12, 2008 at the age of 98.

February 11th, 2009 | 1 Comment

ET’s Wall-U Auction for Charity

From ET Online:

Some of Hollywood’s best and brightest autographed life-sized versions of themselves backstage with ET at the Golden Globes — and now they images are being auctioned off for charity!

The images — called Wall-Us — are movable life-sized durable vinyl cut-out decals, and everyone from Kate Winslet to Mickey Rourke signed them. Now, you can go to ebay and bid on them — with all proceeds benefiting the Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.

To bid on your favorite star’s Wall-U, visit the following auction links: Kate Winslet, Mickey Rourke, Colin Farrell, Anna Paquin, Tom Wilkinson and the cast of ‘Slumdog Millionaire.’

February 3rd, 2009 | 1 Comment
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