Welcome to In A Lather. i'm sookie, and here you'll find my takes on celebs, tv shows and movies that are favs of mine, that i hope are or soon will be favs of yours too. Also events in the entertainment and fashion industry.Thanks for stopping by, and please feel free to comment.
"If anyone gets a morale boost from a show like this it's me" ~ Jeffrey Ross
Partnering with the USO, VH1's 2010 Divas Salute To The Troops provided some top shelf entertainment to 23,000 military personnel on R&R at US Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego and Camp Arifjan in Kuwait.
Hosted by comedienne Kathy Griffin with performances by Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Heart, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Keri Hilson, Paramore, MC Lyte, Sugarland, and comic Jeffrey Ross.
Also giving shout-outs to the troops: Beyonce, Pink, Ke$ha, Fergie, Brandy, Snookie, The Situation, Carrie Underwood, Michael Strahan, and Taylor Swift.
The most moving moments of the spectacular event were the Portrait Of A Hero segments showing profiles of the service men and women and also the canine units, the work they do and the moral support given to the troops from their families at home.
To help the troops keep in touch with their loved ones, Old Navy stores are having a week-long challenge to their customers to donate 100 phone minutes for $5.00. Old Navy Facebook fanscan do a mobile device check-in, claim a Facebook charity deal, andOld Navy will match the $5.00 100 phone minute challenge. The Facebook check-in match will be available until Thursday December 9, 2010.
Your budget a little tight but you'd still like to show the troops some love---get your paps on and share a photo with VH1 through Facebook Connect. Your pic will be added to VH1's mosaic picture For every photo shared VH1 will donate $1.00 up to $10,0000.00 to the USO's Wounded Warrior project Operation Enduring Care.
VH1's Divas Salute To The Troops originally aired on Sunday December 5th. For those of you who like myself were watching Showtime's Dexter, no worries. Encore airings for Divas are scheduled for Monday December 6th at 4:00pm, Tuesday December 7th at 11:30am and 8:00pm, Saturday December 11th at 9:00pm, Sunday December 12th at midnight and 1:00pm, Tuesday December 14th at 10:00pm, Wednesday December 13th at 3:00pm, and Saturday December 18th at 9:00am.
Can i get a "HOORAH!"
Update: Mastermindstudios1 left a comment at YouTube about their video project Mastermindstudios1 Half the proceeds from the sale of the song in their video will go to projects for Wounded Warriors.
ART can save a life. ART as in Anti-Retroviral Therapy, the protocol that has proven effective in suppressing HIV, prohibiting the virus from progressing to AIDS, and for patients already living with AIDS, to have a better quality of life.
Wednesday December 1 2010 marks the 23rd World AIDS Day. In observance, Alicia Keys will be logging-off Twitter until the fund raising goal of $1 million dollars has been achieved for Keep A Child Alive. Ms Keys is co-founder and global ambassador of Keep A Child Alive. KCA provides medical care, housing, education, and other forms of support for children in Africa and India who are battling HIV/AIDS. BuyLife.org is collaborating with KCA. Joining Ms Keys in the social media log-off are Swizz Beatz, Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, Willow and Jaden Smith, and other notables. Contributions to "buy a life" may be donated by text messaging, barcoding, or credit/debit card. Resuscitate a celeb from "digital death" and help Keep A Child Alive.
TCM's seven part series Moguls and Movie Stars imparts a history of movie making from the late 17th century to the 6th decade of the 20th century. Some may be surprised to learn that while movie making came of age in Hollywood, it was not born there. Cinema's impetus resulted from an device by Danish mathematician Thomas Rasmussen Walgensten. Walgensten's invention was upgraded by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens. The device was a prototype slide projector known as Laterna Magica or "a magic lantern". Theoretically it was actually the ancient Greeks, and later Leonardo da Vinci who first had the idea for such a contraption, but there is no documentation that they were able to produce a functioning projector.
Jumping ahead a few centuries to New Jersey in the USA, the "wizard of menlo park" Thomas Alva Edison announces he "plans to create an instrument that would do for the eyes, what the phonograph does for the ears".
Fear not gentle viewer, TCM's doc does not limit itself to science and formulae. The series effortlessly flows toward the grit, gossip, glam, and glitz that evolved into modern day Hollywood.
TCM's Moguls And Movie Stars airs new episodes Mondays at 8:00pm with a replay at 11:00pm and on Wednesdays at 10:00pm If you've missed the previous week's installment those episodes replay Mondays at 7:00pm
As always suggested, please check your local listings.
i'm a gemini from wash.dc, married 35 yrs to an aries from san antonio texas.
i'm sookie, he's tex, together we are sookietex.
Many people think i adopted the name sookie after HBO's TrueBlood heroine Sookie Stackhouse.
Nope. It's not my birth name, but my older brother gave me the nickname sookie when i was a baby.
Best and might i add most prescient gift bro' ever gave me ;D
hubby and i live in nyc and even though we like it here, we dream of the day when we'll pull up stakes and move to austin, or maybe some other town in the lone star state.
a bit more about me and In A Lather public domain image credits
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i am a child of the south, a "boomer", born in 1958, a child of the television age. This was a time when "African-Americans" referred to themselves as "colored". In fact on my birth certificate under racial description, "colored" is the word that is used. Today i still affectionately refer to myself as a "colored child". my paternal great grandpa was Blackfoot Nation, and my maternal great grandmother was also Native American, [but i have not found out which Nation]---i affectionately refer to that part of my heritage as 'injun'---hey i'm never going to be described as politically correct and have no desire to be.
my mother was a woman who was far ahead of her time in terms of "feminist" survival. Long before it was fashionable, she was a single parent. She did have support, and not just financial from my pop, but they did not live together as husband & wife. In fact they never did take that walk down the aisle...but that's another story. Mom was a woman who worked outside the home long before most women of her generation would have even thought of making that choice, much less do it. She fully appreciated the value, neccessity, and strength of a loving extended family. She did not need anyone to tell her it "takes a village".
When mother was at work, i, the youngest of 4 (2 sisters 1 brother & me), was alternately cared for by mother's eldest sister, "auntie" as we used to call her, and our nextdoor neighbors. They were like family to us. We called the elder woman 'grandma' (to this day I do not know her given name), and her daughter Miss Elsie, or more usually 'aunt'Elsie. They were very religious folk. God fearing, bible reading, honest, and i and my family loved them dearly. 'Aunt'Elsie always made sure my days were full of activity, but one of my favorite times of the day was when she would look at her watch and say "oh my, we'd better hurry, it's almost time for my stories". By her 'stories'
she of course meant the day's soap operas. For Elsie and her mother, watching the soaps was sort of a guilty pleasure, but at the same time they made it seem sacred. It was a ritualistic activity. Her favorites were The Edge of NightThe Secret Storm and General Hospital
Paul Harvey would say i am giving you "the rest of the story" so that you may better understand its importance, and how it relates to the spirit of this blog. Which is to say we all have drama of some level going on in our lives, so sometimes the plotlines of our favorite shows may seem either tame, empathetic, or absurd, depending on where life may take you on any given day.
