Official GRAMMY gift suite hosted by Distinctive Assets presents celebrities with Vivitar cameras and other gifts

By Gabrielle Pantera

Vivatar DVR 510 Underwater Night Vision Camera sports USB port

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 2/8/2010 – Celebrities who visited gift suite included Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas, Lady Antebellum, Mary J Blige, Rihanna, Randy Jackson, Kimberly Caldwell, Lionel Richie, Roberta Flack and Kimora Lee Simmons. The official Grammys gift suite was presented by Distinctive Assets and hosting by Moroccanoil during rehearsals January 28^th to 30th.

Celebrities could autograph gifts to donate MusiCares Foundation, that provides a safety net of critical assistance for members of the music community in times of need. Let’s take a look at the latest gift ideas.

Tech

Rihanna took one look and said, “Tech toys, tech toys!” The Vivitar Waterproof Night Vision DVR 510 camcorder weighs just 13 ounces, supports 640×480 at 30 fps, an 8x digital zoom, SD slot and a 1.8” preview screen. Waterproof to shoot underwater and at night. The Vivitar DVR 850W can go to five meters underwater with SD memory and a rechargeable LiIon battery.

Vivitar’s latest digital camera is the ViviCam 8027, a compact digital camera with a [Read more →]

GBK luxury lounge gift suite celebrates the Golden Globes while supporting Donate Life, GLAAD, City of Hope, Broadway in the Hood, Truth-It! and Okobos.

By Gabrielle Pantera

DJ Shy

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 1/31/2010 – Whether it’s George Clooney producing Hope for Haiti Now that raised $57 million for charities including Oxfam America or Brad Pitt founding the Make It Right Foundation to rebuild New Orleans, celebrities play a significant role in supporting charities. GBK, honoring the 2010 Golden Globe Awards nominees and presenters with a luxury lounge gift suite, introduced a new way to give.

Celebrities can choose one of many participating charities to receive a donation in their name, thanks to co-presenting sponsor Truth-It!. The 2010 Golden Globe nominees and presenters received more than $40,000 in luxury gifts, including 5-star vacations, electronics, lifestyle products and luxury goods.

DJ Shy was on the turntables providing sounds.  DJ Shy was the first female mixer at KIIS-FM Los Angeles 102.7, the #1 top 40 radio station in America with over 2.6 million listeners each week. The Clear Channel station features Ryan Seacrest as morning host.

www.dj-shy.com

Novero’s “The First One” premium Bluetooth earpieces are modern technology and fashion statement. Available in Lily white or black. Novero offers a line of Bluetooth items to make your life easier. Innovative products for your mobile phone or device.

http://www.novero.com

Patty’s Royal Dandie Miniature Pet Pigs really are pigs and make adorable pets. The cute little piglets were [Read more →]

TV series Seducing Cindy premieres on Fox Reality tonight at 9p/8c or catch the sneak peak online now *** 3 Stars

By Robin Rowe

Cindy Margolis, premiering in Seducing Cindy tonight

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 1/30/2010 – “I’m a hopeless romantic,” says Seducing Cindy star Cindy Margolis. “On the show I fall in love with more than one person, which I never would have thought possible. Every date was something out of a fairy tale. Everything was so beautiful…waterfalls and roses and chocolate fountains and candles, date after date. I never wanted to leave.”

In Seducing Cindy, 25 men are faced with a series of challenges to compete for Cindy’s heart. Margolis is the spokesperson for the charity Resolve, the national fertility association. “I did a challenge with the guys right off the bat,” says Margolis. “I had them give me their sperm samples. You want to see shock on a person’s face? ‘Hi. How are you? Here’s my Playboy and here’s a cup. I want your sperm sample.’ I had my [Read more →]

Novel about Samson and Delilah brings new light to characters from the Bible *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 1/29/2010 – “Delilah’s been a favorite of mine ever since I saw Cecil B. DeMille’s 1949 Samson & Delilah at an impressionable age,” says Delilah author India Edghill. “The color! The glamour! The passion! The peacock feather dress! So when St. Martin’s wanted another biblical woman novel from me after Queenmaker and Wisdom’s Daughter, I naturally thought of Delilah.”

As a young child, Delilah is given to temple of Atargatis so she may become a priestess to the Five Cities that rule Canaan. She is trusting. When Aylah, a young girl purchased at the slave auction, comes to the temple, Delilah is [Read more →]

Michael Jackson stage show documentary one of the best films of the year **** 4 stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

Michael Jackson, a thriller on stage in This Is It

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 1/26/2010 – “This is it is the telling of Michael Jackson’s last great creative process,” says This Is It choreographer Travis Payne. “We cut together a piece for the fans,” says This Is It director Kenny Ortega.

This Is It doesn’t glamorize Jackson’s life. You get to see how hard he worked and how focused he was at rehearsals. Ortega edited 120 hours of rehearsal footage into the 111-minute documentary. Jackson performs material that [Read more →]

Emily Blunt’s 2010 Golden Globes red carpet dress and other celebrity items raising money for charity

By Gabrielle Pantera

Emily Blunt Golden Globes dress on auction online, other celebrity gifts by Madison & Mulholland

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 1/25/2010 – Despite being caught in the rain, Emily Blunt looked fantastic in a Dolce & Gabbana gown on the red carpet at the 2010 Golden Globe Awards. The Clothes Off Our Back Foundation charity auction website is now offering that dress for sale and other celebrity items to raise money for charities including Haiti disaster relief.

Madison & Mulholland hosted a gift suite where Golden Globe nominees and celebrities were invited to create a gift bag for charity. Celebrities signed and personalized the items to be sold online at The Clothes Off Our Back. Let’s take a look at what’s in these gift bags [Read more →]

Johnson’s biography of Winston Churchill looks at a life that became an emblem of democracy *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

Churchill by Paul Johnson

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 1/23/2010 – “It is a joy to write his life,” says Churchill author Paul Johnson. “Of all the towering figures of the twentieth century, Winston Churchill was the most valuable to humanity and also the most likable. No man did more to preserve freedom and democracy and the values we hold dear in the West. None provided more public entertainment with his dramatic ups and downs, his noble oratory, his powerful writings and sayings, his flashes of rage, and his sunbeams of wit.”

Churchill never wavered, although he [Read more →]

Lifetime movie fails to address boys’ responsibilities in teen pregnancy ** Two Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

Camryn Manheim in The Pregnancy Pact

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 1/23/2010 – “Almost one in three girls become pregnant before they’re twenty,” says Cameron Manheim. “One in six girls in the U.S. will become teen mothers.”

The Lifetime TV movie The Pregnancy Pact is inspired by a true story. Time Magazine created a media frenzy when it reported that the rise in the number of pregnancies at a high school was the result of a “pregnancy pact”, that unmarried teenage girls were trying to get pregnant.

Thora Birch stars at Sidney Bloom, an on-line journalist who returns to her hometown to investigate the sudden spike in teenage pregnancies at her old high school. The teen pregnancies in this small town rise to 18. Lorraine Dougan stars as Nancy Travis, the head of a local “conservative values” group and mother to one of the girls who’s under 16 and pregnant.

Camryn Manheim, as school nurse Kim Daly, tries to [Read more →]

George Clooney asks a billion TV viewers to help, reaches worldwide and across all major U.S. networks to broadcast the benefit tonight at 8pm

By Robin Rowe

Beyonce to sing from London in Hope for Haiti, Madonna will sing from NY

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 1/22/2010 – George Clooney, who’d organized the widely televised benefit for victims of the 2004 Indonesian tsunami, was in New York when news reports came in of a devastating earthquake in Haiti. “The next morning I called Judy MacGrath at MTV,” says George Clooney. “She said, ‘We’re thinking about doing something, too. Let’s do it.’ By the time I flew back to L.A., the other networks had signed on. Every single network. At some point, it got to be you couldn’t be the network that didn’t.”

Clooney’s mission is to raise as much money as possible for the victims. “First and foremost, raise a lot of money,” says Clooney. “If we could pick up shovels and go, without being in the way, a lot of us would do that.”

“I think music a strong way to help people begin the healing process,” says Hope for Haiti producer Joel Gallen. “Artists have deep feelings that we all share. This is a way to express themselves through songs, many of which are doing songs they didn’t even [Read more →]

Winnie-the-Pooh DVD animation and songs delight children **** 4 Stars

By Gabrielle Panera

Tigger in a Valentine's Day moment

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 1/22/2010 – Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has re-released a special edition of Winnie-the-Pooh, A Valentine for You.

A Valentine For You is the story of Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends who see Christopher Robin write a Valentine’s Day card to someone named Winifred. Owl explains that Winifred must be a girl, a creature that’s just like boys but completely different. Owl says Christopher Robin is smitten. The gang think Robin’s been bitten by a bug called Smitten. They go in search of a cure to help Christopher Robins get better.

Un-Valentine’s Day and Three Piglets were both part of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh animated TV show. In Un-Valentine’s Day, Rabbit declares that [Read more →]