Angela Lansbury new role as ALS spokeswoman

Angela Lansbury is taking about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) which progressively paralyzes its victim and cruelly shortens their lives.

Then Lansbury reassures her audience that continued funding for research “will help people with ALS do this”
The three-time Academy Award-nominated Lansbury, known worldwide because of her distinguished theater and movie career, believes strongly that more public awareness will help bring increased support for critical research into the disease.
“The Association is honored that Ms. Lansbury has enthusiastically embraced our vision to create a world without ALS by lending her presence to our new public awareness initiative – “1-866-CURE ALS,” Leo said. “We are looking forward to a long and fruitful association with her.”
“The radio public service announcement campaign brings real life situations to bear on the disease of ALS by creating a mental picture of someone who is trapped in their own body or unable to change their surroundings,” Snyder said. “Only an actress of Lansbury’s talents could have delivered her lines with such conviction and passion.”
“Ms. Angela Lansbury brings a special quality to this work by using her tremendous talent on the stage and screen to dramatize the impact that ALS has on the lives of people with ALS and their families,” Snyder continued. “Working with a legend like Ms. Angela Lansbury is almost like a dream because you see this person who is so familiar from her work in entertainment. She brings the entire campaign to life with a very special ability.”

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Katie Holmes

Just hours after crossing the finish line in the grueling New York City Marathon, Katie Holmes stepped out again – in black, open-toed heels! – for husband Tom Cruise's film premiere.

While many other runners would be huddled in bed recovering, Holmes and Cruise walked hand-in-hand into the Museum of Modern Art Sunday night for a screening of his new film Lions for Lambs (directed by Robert Redford and costarring Meryl Streep). When asked about his wife's resilience, Cruise beamed proudly, telling PEOPLE, "I know, I know. It's amazing."


Also on hand were Cruise's mother and sister and Holmes's parents. "Isn't she amazing?" gushed mom Kathy. "She's such a good girl. We're so proud [of her]."

Earlier in the day, Holmes, 28, crossed the finish line in a respectable 5:29:58, as Cruise and their daughter Suri, 18 months, cheered from the sidelines.

MONDAY NOVEMBER 05, 2007 08:15 AM EST

By Jeffrey Slonim

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Milla Jovovich

Born Milica Nataša Jovović on December 17, 1975) is an American supermodel, actress, musician, singer, and fashion designer. Jovovich has been featured in numerous high profile modeling campaigns as well as in Hollywood films. Over her career, she has appeared in a number of science-fiction and action themed films, for which music channel VH1 has referred to her as the "reigning queen of kick-butt".

Jovovich had began modeling at eleven, when Richard Avedon featured her in Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements, and she continues her career with more notable campaigns for L'Oreal cosmetics, Banana Republic, Christian Dior, Donna Karan and Versace. In 1988, she had her first professional acting role in the television film The Night Train to Kathmandu, and later that year she appeared in her first feature film, Two Moon Junction. Following more small television and film roles, she gained notoriety with the film Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991), the sequel to The Blue Lagoon. Jovovich then acted along side Bruce Willis in the science fiction film The Fifth Element (1997), and later played the title role in The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999). In 2002, she starred in the video game adaptation, Resident Evil, which has gone onto spawn two sequels, Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) and Resident Evil: Extinction (2007).

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Carrie Underwood Born From The Festival Stage

The festival stage often gives birth to the singer who can last long and reach the success in the short time.

One of the artists who is born from the festival stage is Carrie Underwood (24).
The singer from Checotah, Oklahoma this her name has been known since winning American Idol in 2005.

Since then, Carrie's name continues to bounce.
Moreover this success is followed by the emergence debut his album that is entitled “Some Hearths”. This first album is sold more than 6 million copy and am something that is phenomenal.Carrie afterwards feels again prouder, because of succeeding in shifting 2 Grammy cups.


The continuation is, Carrie is contracted out by Sony BMG and on October 23 that is new then he releases the second album that is entitled “Carnival Ride”.
Carrie do not ignore that some deny measure the success or not an album is this album capacity to occupy the plank on the Billboard ladder.
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