She has given away free cars, household must-haves and now, millions of dollars. If there’s one thing we know about Oprah, it’s that she seems to thrive on giving, giving and more giving. On Sunday, her new show Oprah’s Big Give will premiere on ABC. The show encourages people to “pay it forward” by handing [...]
Entries from February 2008
February 20, 2008
Faces of Oscar Fashion
This Sunday is one that I have been anticipating for, oh, the past 360 days. The Academy Awards are less than a week away, and red carpet chit-chat is at its peak. Celebrity entrances will make Sunday one of the biggest days for popular designers, whose dresses will hug the hips of Hollywood beauties at [...]
February 20, 2008
Making the Fame
Last year, the Pussycat Dolls founder and choreographer Robin Antin searched the country for a singer-dancer to mosey in to the burlesque pop group. With the help of Geffen Records Chairman Ron Fair and other music gurus, Antin gave viewers a front row seat to the selection process on her series Pussycat Dolls Presents: The [...]
February 19, 2008
Nike Thinks Pink
During my visit to the University of Oregon Bookstore this weekend, a shelf of baby pink shirts broke through the vibrant racks of lightening yellow and grass green apparel. The row of “Oregon” t-shirts with a breast cancer awareness ribbon on the top corner immediately lured me in. I was interested in how the UO [...]
February 13, 2008
It’s No Secret: PR is a Skintimate® Experience
I just returned from my fourth trip to Las Vegas for the 2008 USA Collegiate Dance and Cheerleading Nationals, and more than 75 college and all-star cheerleaders and dance teams competed. Some guys might have seen the championship as a chance to snag a few girls’ phone numbers, but PR teams had seen it as [...]
February 6, 2008
Comics and Politics
Politics. The word itself just does not resonate comedy. It’s election time, and political debate is at its prime – and so is the late-night political mockery. Funny-men we know and some of us love, including Conan O’Brien, Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert are providing quite the spectacle to keep those of us politically less amused [...]
February 6, 2008
Celebrities’ Opportunities for Positive Public Messages
Celebrities’ drug addictions rarely surprise me anymore, but the way that celebrity publicists handle situations in media usually does. It’s always a disappointment when we see the celebrities whom we have grown up with fall into the Hollywood drug trap. Photos of droopy-eyed Lindsay Lohan and inebriated Britney Spears have grazed the pages of popular [...]
