NEW YORK, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Anti-Defamation League
(ADL) today condemned as "inappropriate and offensive" the use by Madonna
of an image of Hitler as part of a concert photo montage that as well included
photos of John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, and
Zimbabwean potentate Robert Mugabe. The images were projected on a screen as
Madonna launched her world duty tour with a live concert in Cardiff, Wales.
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor,
issued the following statement:
Comparisons to Hitler have no place in a music concert, or in the
presidential campaign.
Whatever Madonna's political or personal views, it is outrageous to
invoke Nazi imagery in the context of John McCain's campaigning or to make a
comment on American political leadership.
It is unfitting and unsavoury to compare any stream or old
world leaders with the man in the end responsible for the death of vI
million Jews and the suffering of countless others during the Holocaust.
Doing so trivializes the history of the Holocaust and is an insult to the
memories of the victims and their families.
The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading
system fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that
antagonize hatred, prejudice and bigotry.
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008
Saturday, 16 August 2008
'The Cheetah Girls' Team with Girl Scouts of USA to Celebrate Community Service, Diversity and Friendship on Disney Channel
BURBANK, Calif., Aug. 11 -- Members of Girl Scouts of USA
spent a day on location in Mumbai, India with actresses Adrienne Bailon,
Kiely Williams, Sabrina Bryan and Deepti Daryanani, stars of "The Cheetah
Girls One World," as voice of a joint enterprise between Disney Channel, the
#1 cable channel in primetime for kids age 6-14, and Girl Scouts, the
preeminent organization for girls age 5-17, to celebrate community service,
leadership, diversity and friendship. Highlights from their visit volition be
presented in "The Road to The Cheetah Girls One World" interstitial
premiering Friday, June 27 (throughout the afternoon and evening) on Disney
Channel. "The Cheetah Girls One World" premieres Friday, August 22 (8:00
p.m., ET/PT) on Disney Channel.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080814/NYF063 )
While on the set, the Girls Scouts, each members of a senior cadet
scout group, shared their thoughts around community robert William Service and leadership
development. They learned about Indian finish and dance, met the movie's
choreographers Fatima Robinson, Joylene Frazer and Rujuta Vaidya, and
executive producer Debra Martin Chase wHO has carven out a genre of
empowerment movies for kids and families including "The Cheetah Girls,"
"The Princess Diaries" movies, "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants"
movies and "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella."
The Girl Scouts will present the "The Road to The Cheetah Girls One
World" at camp and council events and via regular communication with its
250 councils throughout the summer. The organization will also host
Bollywood-themed screening parties on Saturday, August 23 to cooccur with
the movie's premier weekend.
"It is exciting to be working with Disney Channel's The Cheetah Girls,"
said Laurel Richie, Chief Marketing Officer, Girl Scouts of the USA. "There
is so a great deal synergy betwixt what we do at Girl Scouts and the message of The
Cheetah Girls. They show our girls what you can achieve if you put your
mind to it."
"This initiative testament get the positive message of 'The Cheetah Girls'
movies, one that inspires girls to see their voltage, to millions of
Girl Scouts who accept the benefit of an organization with the same core
values," Frank Keating, Vice President, Marketing, Disney ABC Cable
Networks Group.
Actress and recording artist Adrienne Bailon, one of 50 million alumni
of Girl Scouts said, "I went to Girl Scout camp when I was growing up in
New York and I know the experience helped me learn to be self-sufficient
and positive in my abilities."
Filmed entirely on location in Udaipur, India, the nearly ambitious and
colorful installment of the Disney Channel Original Movie franchise, "The
Cheetah Girls One World," follows Chanel, Dorinda and Aqua as they unleash
their 'growl power' in India and pursue the probability of a lifetime: starring
roles in a Bollywood film. Despite the trials and tribulations they face,
the girls strive to maintain a positive position even when unforeseen
circumstances challenge the 'Cheetah Girls' credo.
About Girl Scouts
Founded in 1912, Girl Scouts of the USA is the preeminent leadership
development organization for girls with 3.6 1000000 girl and adult members
worldwide. Girl Scouting is the leading authority on girls' healthy
development, and builds girls of braveness, confidence and character, wHO
make the world a better shoes. The arrangement serves girls from every
corner of the United States and its territories. Girls Scouts of the USA
also serves American girls and their classmates attention American or
international schools overseas in 90 countries. For more than information on how
to join, volunteer, reconnect or donate to Girl Scouts, call (800) GSUSA 4
U (800-478-7248) or visit hypertext transfer protocol://www.girlscouts.org.
About Disney Channel
Disney Channel is a 24-hour kid-driven, family inclusive television
electronic network that lights-out into the world of kids and families through original
series and movies. Currently available on basic cable in over 95 million
U.S. homes and to millions of other viewing audience on 27 Disney Channels around
the world, Disney Channel is part of the Disney-ABC Television Group.
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spent a day on location in Mumbai, India with actresses Adrienne Bailon,
Kiely Williams, Sabrina Bryan and Deepti Daryanani, stars of "The Cheetah
Girls One World," as voice of a joint enterprise between Disney Channel, the
#1 cable channel in primetime for kids age 6-14, and Girl Scouts, the
preeminent organization for girls age 5-17, to celebrate community service,
leadership, diversity and friendship. Highlights from their visit volition be
presented in "The Road to The Cheetah Girls One World" interstitial
premiering Friday, June 27 (throughout the afternoon and evening) on Disney
Channel. "The Cheetah Girls One World" premieres Friday, August 22 (8:00
p.m., ET/PT) on Disney Channel.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080814/NYF063 )
While on the set, the Girls Scouts, each members of a senior cadet
scout group, shared their thoughts around community robert William Service and leadership
development. They learned about Indian finish and dance, met the movie's
choreographers Fatima Robinson, Joylene Frazer and Rujuta Vaidya, and
executive producer Debra Martin Chase wHO has carven out a genre of
empowerment movies for kids and families including "The Cheetah Girls,"
"The Princess Diaries" movies, "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants"
movies and "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella."
The Girl Scouts will present the "The Road to The Cheetah Girls One
World" at camp and council events and via regular communication with its
250 councils throughout the summer. The organization will also host
Bollywood-themed screening parties on Saturday, August 23 to cooccur with
the movie's premier weekend.
"It is exciting to be working with Disney Channel's The Cheetah Girls,"
said Laurel Richie, Chief Marketing Officer, Girl Scouts of the USA. "There
is so a great deal synergy betwixt what we do at Girl Scouts and the message of The
Cheetah Girls. They show our girls what you can achieve if you put your
mind to it."
"This initiative testament get the positive message of 'The Cheetah Girls'
movies, one that inspires girls to see their voltage, to millions of
Girl Scouts who accept the benefit of an organization with the same core
values," Frank Keating, Vice President, Marketing, Disney ABC Cable
Networks Group.
Actress and recording artist Adrienne Bailon, one of 50 million alumni
of Girl Scouts said, "I went to Girl Scout camp when I was growing up in
New York and I know the experience helped me learn to be self-sufficient
and positive in my abilities."
Filmed entirely on location in Udaipur, India, the nearly ambitious and
colorful installment of the Disney Channel Original Movie franchise, "The
Cheetah Girls One World," follows Chanel, Dorinda and Aqua as they unleash
their 'growl power' in India and pursue the probability of a lifetime: starring
roles in a Bollywood film. Despite the trials and tribulations they face,
the girls strive to maintain a positive position even when unforeseen
circumstances challenge the 'Cheetah Girls' credo.
About Girl Scouts
Founded in 1912, Girl Scouts of the USA is the preeminent leadership
development organization for girls with 3.6 1000000 girl and adult members
worldwide. Girl Scouting is the leading authority on girls' healthy
development, and builds girls of braveness, confidence and character, wHO
make the world a better shoes. The arrangement serves girls from every
corner of the United States and its territories. Girls Scouts of the USA
also serves American girls and their classmates attention American or
international schools overseas in 90 countries. For more than information on how
to join, volunteer, reconnect or donate to Girl Scouts, call (800) GSUSA 4
U (800-478-7248) or visit hypertext transfer protocol://www.girlscouts.org.
About Disney Channel
Disney Channel is a 24-hour kid-driven, family inclusive television
electronic network that lights-out into the world of kids and families through original
series and movies. Currently available on basic cable in over 95 million
U.S. homes and to millions of other viewing audience on 27 Disney Channels around
the world, Disney Channel is part of the Disney-ABC Television Group.
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Thursday, 7 August 2008
Berry goes after backyard paparazzi
LOS ANGELES � Halle Berry says a paparazzi photographer went too far to fix a snap of the actress property her baby daughter, invasive onto her private belongings and snapping them in the backyard.
The Oscar-winning actress was disorder when pictures of her holding 4-month-old Nahla Ariela Aubry, her daughter with model Gabriel Aubry, showed up on the Internet and in two renown magazines, In Touch and Life & Style. In a statement, Berry disputes the notion that the photos were taken when she was "out and about in Los Angeles."
Evan Spiegel, an attorney representing Berry, aforesaid a felonious complaint has been filed and an investigation is under way. He aforementioned there are witnesses wHO saw the photographers in the middle of a "very conspicuous and invasive trespass."
A person who answered the sound Friday at Fame Pictures, the government agency that distributed the photos, said he had no immediate comment.
Besides pursuing criminal charges against the photographer, Berry is seeking to get the photos remote from the Web. In her assertion to The Associated Press, Berry aforesaid she volition never deal pictures of her children.
The photos point Berry retention her girl, standing close a board in what appears to be a private backyard. Berry's mother is as well in some of the pictures.
Representatives for In Touch and Life & Style magazines had no immediate comment Friday.
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