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Dancing With The Stars: American Idol Pia Toscano best singer on DWTS?

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Pia Toscano from American Idol the best guest singer ever?

[Apr. 26]

I will stand by you. That’s the song singer Pia Toscano knocked out of the ballpark during her live guest appearance on DWTS Tuesday April 26th, 2011. Tom asked the big question, “How the hell did you get voted off?” The new celebrity singer was ousted from American Idol in a freak vote, astonishing judges and fans. Proving her meddle on her live song, the gorgeous girl proved she already is a star celeb of note whose career people will want to follow from now on. Was her song the best on the ABC dance competition? Let’s put it this way… while the other celebrity guests singing were New Kids On The Block and Backstreet Boys — who were great individually and combined into the boy power band NKOTBSB — she truly was the one who rocked the house.

Pia Toscano is rumored to be dating professional dancer Mark Ballas, the outstanding choreographer who will sure take his dance partner Disney starlet Chelsea Kane to the finals. He has finally come into his own during the 2011 season as his best friend Derek Hough elected to sit this season out. The two are always vying for top spots, but Derek — the golden boy with a big smile and pretty blonde hair — has always managed to get the better celebrity dance partner. That is, up until now.

Chelsea Kane is as lovable as a golden girl as Derek was fun to watch, and she meets and exceeds every dance move challenge sweetie Mark Ballas dreams up. Fans are a bit disappointed to hear that the celebrity teen is not dating young Mark; they are happy to see Mark is dating the lovely brunette Pia Toscano on the other hand.

On the episode where wrestler Chris Jherico got voted off, while surprise dancer Kendra Wilkinson stayed on thanks to her risqué Rumba April 25th, the star of the night was Pia Toscano.

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Celebrity Kids: Youngest Kardashian sisters look like star celebs twins?

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Youngest Kardashian sisters look like star celebs twins?

[Apr. 26]

Do all the Kardashian sisters look the same? You betcha we say in our best Sarah Palin – Tina Fey impersonation voice! And the word on the street for that in Hollywood is HOT!

Last week, the two littlest Kardashian sisters showed up at the El Capitan looking like twins for the premiere of Prom by Disney pictures, reports PopEater. Kendall and Kylie (who would have thought their names would start with K?) were sporting slightly different cuts of dress, but with similar styles and in the same shade of blue. Of course, both sport the same long, dark locks that are practically synonymous with being a Kardashian.

So with all this Kardashian sisters goodness floating around carpets and red cameras, can we finally expect that Kim Kardashian and company will put the whole family together in a Kardashian film? It sounds like a great idea for the girls, but big sister Kim Kardashian says there’s nothing in the works.

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Green Celebrity Death: Who was Tim Hetherington, the dead Oscar nominee?

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Who was Tim Hetherington, the Oscar nominee killed in Lybia in 2011?

[Apr. 24]

Tim Hetherington was born in Liverpool, UK, on December 5, 1970. He originally studied literature at Oxford University, but he went back to school to get a degree in photojournalism. He had been living in New York, and had been sharing his time there with time in London. He maintained dual citizenship. He contributed regularly to Vanity Fair magazine, for which much of his photojournalism work in Afghanistan was done.

Over the course of his career, Tim Hetherington, a green celebrity player behind the camera, became active in humanitarian circles, using his skills with still frame photography and video camera equipment to capture the social and political impact that war had on regions abroad, including Afghanistan, Liberia, and most recently in Libya, where he was killed by shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade, fired by Qaddafi forces.

Tim Hetherington was best known for his work on Restrepo (2010), a documentary film covering a year with a platoon in one of the most dangerous areas in Afghanistan. Hetherington was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary this past January, but lost to Exit Through the Gift Shop with the notoriously world-renowned street artist, Banksy.

However, Tim Hetherington was the recipient of many awards, according to his website, prior to the hit Restrepo. He was a cameraman for Liberia: An Uncivil War (2004) and for The Devil Came on Horseback (2007). He also wrote two books — Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold, capturing the history of present-day Liberia, and Infidel (2010) about the soldiers in Aghanistan, studying the effects on conflict on the young men at the front. His most recent project, a short film called Diary he called highly experimental and it currently is being shown at multiple film festivals.

While this green celebrity author, photojournalist, and filmmaker was not beholden to one side or the other, he did work hard as a humanitarian to expose the effects of war and conflict on societies and individuals alike, and he has received numerous awards for his efforts. He had a Fellowship from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts from 2000 to 2004. He received a grant from the Hasselblad Foundation for photography in 2002. He received four awards from World Press Photo, which aims to promote excellence in photojournalism. Ultimately he won Photo of the Year from World Press Photo in 2007. From the Rory Peck Trust, named after an Irish freelance cameraman killed in Russia while covering the constitutional crisis there, Tim Hetherington won the Rory Peck Features (rather than shorts) award in 2008. And he won an Alfred I. Dupont award, recognizing excellence in broadcast journalism, in 2009.

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Growing Green: Buy hemp products, save the planet? (Green Products List)

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Buy hemp products, save the planet?

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[Apr. 24]

Hemp has got to be one of the most underrated and useful textile products in the world. Hemp, when grown and used to make actual industrial hemp products creates more eco-friendly and sustainable products than just about any other plant imaginable — and we are not just talking about growing marijuana for medicinal purposes. We are talking about really useful hemp products like:

* hemp fabric,
* hemp clothing,
* hemp oil,
* industrial hemp,
* organic cotton textile products fortified with organic hemp to increase durability
* hemp

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Election 2012: Jerry Springer thinks Donald Trump is next Sarah Palin?

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Jerry Springer thinks Donald Trump is next Sarah Palin?

[Apr. 23]

Jerry Springer, who once was the mayor of Cincinnati, was ousted from politics because of a relationship with a prostitute. He briefly considered a run for the Senate in 2003, but backed off because of the notoriety of his show, Jerry Springer, a television series which he readily admits is silly — but claims he totally does for the money. But Springer never is far from politics. He was asked recently about his feelings of real estate tycoon Donald Trump possibly running for president in 2012, and he is not exactly kind to the Donald.
PopEater reports:

“Remember when you were a little kid and a wise guy at the back of the class would shout things out?” Jerry asks. “That’s Trump. He makes you laugh and giggle.”

Those are some pretty harsh words about Donald Trump coming from a man like Jerry Springer, who has made his living the last 20 years shocking people and otherwise making people giggle over the antics on his television show, Jerry Springer. If anyone knows what it means to be a celebrity clown, Springer does.

Regarding his own show, Springer tells PopEater:

“It’s so stupid,” he says. “Our niche is outrageous, so we are not competing with anyone. We have cornered the market. It’s total escapism, where we never pretend to be anything we are not. It’s hard to find a job that is this much fun. It keeps me young.”

So what does he have to say about Donald Trump and his eligibility to run for president? He compares Donald Trump, who he calls “the flavor of the month” for Republicans, to the former Republican sweetheart Sarah Palin. Effectively, he has identified that Republicans are trying to paint a new face over the party.

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Lady Gaga apologizes to fans for retarded comment via Perez Hilton blog?

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Lady Gaga apologizes to fans for retarded comment via Perez Hilton blog?

[Apr. 22]

Lady Gaga told British music magazine NME that accusations of plagiarism are “retarded.” But almost immediately realizing her celebrity OOPS moment, she apologized for the use of that particular word. Saying the use of the comment goes against what she does to support causes that she associates with, including her outspoken support for the LGBT community, Lady Gaga ate crow with a seriously apologetic game face on. “I consider it part of my life’s work and music to push the boundaries of love and acceptance,” said Gaga in a statement released through celebrity blogger Perez Hilton. Yes, that is right. She used Perez Hilton to help her get the word out to Little Monsters and Critics everywhere that Lady Gaga did not mean to make a slur against the special needs community or to demean them. She readily admitted her words were chosen poorly.

The press release statement Lady Gaga issued about having used the word retarded inappropriately was written in such a way that is was very politically correct. She writes:

“To anyone that was hurt, please know that it was furiously unintentional.

Whether life’s disabilities left you outcast, bullied or teased, rejoice and love yourself today.”

TheSocialChallenge.org has demonstrated that when engaged, like Lady Gaga, users of the word “retard” are likely to apologize.

You can visit the site to see live streams of tweets using the word. Consider telling those who are using it to take it back and find a better word to discuss the situation. The way Lady Gaga used it demonstrates just how casual it can be, and how unfair it really is.

Says Holly Roos:

“It’s really unfortunate when someone with as much influence as Lady Gaga uses that word,” said Holly Roos, an advocate for TheSocialChallenge.org, and a mother of two children with Fragile-X syndrome.

“But through The Social Challenge, in just over a month, we’ve actually had hundreds of people tweet back with apologies, pledging not to use the word in the future. It’s a great opportunity to make a difference, and I’m really glad to see that Lady Gaga thought better of her words, too.”

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