| Revealed: the children as young as five years old suffering from ... | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 12:50:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | HUNDREDS of children under the age of 13 in the UK are being diagnosed with eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. The first survey of pre-teen eating disorders has revealed that doctors reported 175 cases of children with the conditions during the course of just more than a year. Nearly half of those children were admitted to hospital, with many having to be fed through a nasal tube or treated with drugs to aid their recovery. In one case, a child with an eating disorder died due to kidney failure. While the average age of sufferers was around 11, the youngest case identified in the survey was a boy only five years old. The number of people suffering from an eating disorder has increased dramatically over the past two decades, with an estimated 1.1 million people in the UK now suffering from conditions such as anorexia or bulimia.... | |
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| | | Miss Universe Photographer and Author of "Naked" Featured in Take Home a Nude Charity Art Auction | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 6:49:00 AM by Blog57 Team | | (PRWEB) October 27, 2006 -- The hottest photographer in town these days is New York native Steve Azzara. After floating around the New York celebrity scene for some twenty-five years, Azzara is suddenly an overnight success. On the twenty-seventh of October, an Azzara image will be featured at the prestigious Take Home a Nude® art auction, chaired by Eileen Guggenheim and benefiting The New York Academy of Art. .... | |
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| | | SAINT girls are a hit in Paris | | Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:46:48 PM by Blog57 Team | | SAINT International is reporting that two of its models, Sigail Currie and Sasha Gay Hunt, have been strutting for some of the biggest names in the French fashion capital of Paris, specifically in the Spring/Summer 2007 Pret-a-Porter(Ready-To-Wear) Collections in Paris. SAINT model Sigail Currie has been featured in an extensive 15-page layout in Italian Vogue. "What is impressive," says SAINT CEO Deiwight Peters, "is that Sigail, photographed with four other models, gained prominent position and even individual shots from the layout making her the star of the layout." The Italian Vogue shoot was done by reputed fashion powerhouse and star maker Steven Klein, while the styling duties were executed by uber-stylist Patti Wilson. "The ultimate news for me," Peters continued, "is that Sigail walks for Yves St Laurent tonight and Sasha (Hunt) walked for Dries Van Noten yesterday, two of the biggest shows in Paris Fashion Week," adding that Sigail's prominent positioning in the Italian Vogue and her runway work for St Laurent will place her instantly at the upper level of the industry.... | |
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| | | 'Little Women' through the years | | Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 4:47:03 AM by Blog57 Team | | As one of the most beloved stories in American popular culture, "Little Women" has been presented in various forms during the past 138 years. Here are some highlights: Massachusetts native Louisa May Alcott wrote the original novel in 1868. The book has been continuously in print since its first edition. A nonmusical edition of "Little Women" played on Broadway during the 1940s. "A Girl Called Jo," a musical inspired by Alcott's writing, debuted in 1955 at London's Piccadilly Theatre. More than 10 films have been based on "Little Women." The third, produced in 1933, featured Katharine Hepburn as Jo March. In a 1949 film version, June Allyson portrayed Jo, Elizabeth Taylor portrayed Amy March and Janet Leigh portrayed Meg March. In a 1994 film version, Winona Rider portrayed Jo.... | |
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| | | Donatella's Last Dance? | | Posted Wednesday, September 06, 2006 8:48:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | Fashion's favorite funhouse has looked more like a haunted castle since the 1997 murder of Gianni Versace. Can Donatella salvage the glittering empire her brother built? By Aaron Gell Just before Christmas 2004, Donatella Versace gathered her clan in the family's opulent Manhattan townhouse one last time. The stately stone building on East 64th Street once belonged to her brother Gianni, who had staged some of the '90s' wildest parties there. Despite the holiday season, however, this reunion would be a sober affair; no celebrities were there to share the Versaces' largesse. Cash problems had forced the family to put the mansion on the block, and in the following months its contents would be sold at auction. The only addition to Donatella's immediate family—former husband Paul Beck, and their children Allegra and Daniel—was her hairdresser, who took his regular place by her side at dinner on Christmas Eve.... | |
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| | | "Days of Plenty" Dwindle for Little Women Tour | | Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 12:47:31 AM by Blog57 Team | | The national tour of Little Women, starring Maureen McGovern as Marmee, begins its scheduled final week Aug. 15 at Keller Auditorium in Portland, Oregon. By the last performance Aug. 20, the tour will have played a total of 382 performances longer than the Broadway run that spawned it in 2004-05. The musical inspired by the beloved Louisa May Alcott novel, adapted by librettist Allan Knee, composer Jason Howland and lyricist Mindi Dickstein, will blossom in regional theatres in the coming year. Marriott Theatre in Chicago will produce it in 2006-07, and Music Theater International is handling the licensing rights. In addition, Windwood Theatricals is currently booking a non-union tour of Little Women for the 2007-08 touring season. Ghostlight Records released the Broadway cast album.... | |
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| | | How this Pressly became popular | | Posted Monday, August 28, 2006 6:46:57 AM by Blog57 Team | | Jaime Elizabeth Pressly's trek from Kinston to sitcom stardom -- and an Emmy nomination1977 Born July 30 in Kinston, hometown of Maceo Parker, Dwight Clark and Jerry Stackhouse.1980 Begins dance lessons from her mother, Brenda, and gymnastics with the Kinston/Lenoir Recreation Department.1992 Appears on the June cover of Teen Magazine. That month, she moves to California with her newly separated mother. She becomes emancipated from her parents later that year at age 15, so she can travel unaccompanied to Japan for modeling work.1997 In the altogether, she wins raves for "Poison Ivy: The New Seduction."1998 Notches her first Playboy magazine pictorial. Plays a mean seductress in "Ringleader," the Jerry Springer mockumentary, and "Beth, Girlfriend #1" in the teen comedy "Can't Hardly Wait."1999 Lands a role as an aspiring Broadway dancer in the WB series "Jack & Jill," which runs 39 episodes over two seasons.... | |
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| | | What a gentleman. | | Posted Monday, August 28, 2006 12:47:55 AM by Blog57 Team | | Ok, Future Movies must admit that we have had a crush on Bale since, at 19, he played Laurie in Little Women; that we respect him immensely as an actor; that we wanted to ask him about his skin care regime, but ran out of time, an that, frankly, as far as he's concerned we are a gushing fangirl, hands shaking as we pose our first, very excited, but uber-professional, question. He'll never know... FM: Did you not fancy playing a more cheery role? Christian Bale: Well, I wanted to do something that wasn't a big juggernaut of a movie, and this was one that I'd wanted to do for a few years. I'd met Dave - I can't remember exactly when but it might have been as early as 2001 and we met at a bar and ended up being there something like five hours, arguing about things. He's an engaging guy, he doesn't mince his words, and I just loved the character, the momentum of the whole thing.... | |
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| | | Chicago's Marriott Will Stage Resident Producers, Little Women and ... | | Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 12:46:43 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Marriott Theatre, in Lincolnshire, IL, will stage its own productions of Broadway's The Producers and Little Women in the 2007 season. In addition to staging the Mel Brooks-Thomas Meehan smash and the Louisa May Alcott-inspired musical, by Allan Knee, Mindi Dickstein and Jason Howland, the resident Equity troupe the nation's most-subscribed theatre will present the musical Shenandoah (April 25-July 1, 2007) and the marriage-related musical comedy Married Alive! (July 5-Sept. 16, 2007) by Chicago native Sean Grennan (book and lyrics) and Leah Okimoto (music). Grease will open the 2007 season Feb. 14-April 22. Marc Robin will choreograph and direct. Shenandoah will be directed and choreographed by David H. Bell. Married Alive! had its world premiere at American Heartland Theatre in Kansas City in 2006-07.... | |
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| | | On The Tube | | Posted Sunday, August 20, 2006 6:46:48 AM by Blog57 Team | | - Miley tries to dampen school pal Oliver's unseemly obsession with teen popstar Hannah, but he's so far gone that she finally feels compelled to let him in on her secret -- that she is Hannah's alter-ego -- on Hannah Montana, on Family Ch. 34 at 7:30 p.m. - Teens Lori and Kyle lie to Lori's parents about their potentially dangerous plans when they head to the University of Washington to dig up information on his super-mysterious past on Kyle XY, on ABC Ch. 7 at 8 p.m. - After Diane is arrested at a protest, she's thrilled to discover her family goes to pot while she's in jail, even though she comes home to a disaster area, thanks to an out-of-control teen house party on Alice, I Think, on TCN Ch. 37 at - A teen comic book geek (That's So Raven's Kyle Massey) hatches an ambitious scheme to train a mutt to win prize money in dog shows after he meets a high-test purebred and its owner on the street.... | |
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