Looking at the relationships of the last 13 Academy Award Best Actress winners, only Helen Mirren has escaped unscathed

By Robin Rowe

Post Oscar bombshell, Michelle McGee, how should I know Sandra Bullock's husband is married?

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 3/17/2010 – “I would never have hooked up with him if I thought he was a married man,” said tattoo model Michelle McGee in a tabloid interview spilling the details of her steamy affair with Sandra Bullock’s husband Jesse James. Bullock won the Oscar for Best Actress for The Blind Side just ten days ago. The London premiere of The Blind Side has now been cancelled due to Sandra Bullock being unavailable for “unforeseen personal reasons.”

Is the ordeal of winning an Academy Award for Best Actress a relationship buster? Is there a Best Actress Oscar Curse?

Looking at the relationships of the last 13 Best Actress winners, only Helen Mirren has escaped unscathed. Marion Cotillard neatly avoided the curse by postponing her relationship by four years until after she won the award. Nicole Kidman and Gwyneth Paltrow were retroactively cursed, suffering [Read more →]

Greener Days are Coming

The Luck of a Irishman Conan O’Brien with his pot of gold he is banking on the green.

By Tom Wright

HOLLYWOOD,CA(Hollywood Today)3/17/2010–Here it is Saint Patrick’s Day, Conan O’Brien and Team Coco are in closed green door talks with Fox or just about any other person that will listen to his offer. You get the Redhead and his Team Coco staff including all the traction that he can muster up during his prohibited LIVE tour, including a film that is in the works of his shows about making fun of his ban from late night network television. Who could ask for anything more, Conan is ready with his non-stop 30 city LIVE shows; Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television road show which is selling out and looks to be steaming along keeping his name in front of his fans.

Conan is not seeing any money from his live road shows, he is doing the tour to keep is chops up and to give work too his Team Coco staff.

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Atlanta, GA (RPRN/Hollywood Today) 03/17/10 — The Year of the Placements continues with ATL BEAT BATTLE, on March 24, 2010 at D’Jangos, 495 Peach Street, Atlanta, Georgia, with featured guest panelist and judge Grammy-nominated Seth Firkins, from Five by Five Media Group, an audio engineering, mixdown, and mastering company.

Five by Five Media Group offers all professional post-production needs, from music mixdown and mastering, to foley sound stage additions to music, commercials, movies, and broadcast. As well, the company offers up-and-coming producers and artists consulting and tips that improve their chances to either get placements, or simply to take their production value to the next level of sonic quality. This month’s lucky winner of the ATL BEAT BATTLE will get to work with Firkins, who will be engineering the 4-hour block of studio time at Hot Beats Studio Atlanta, the same studio favored by artists such as Young Jeezy, and Lil Wayne.

Some of the music industry’s more famous and award-winning recording artists, such as Rocko da Don, Shanell Woods from Young Money, all the way to Atlanta’s favorite “down-south producer” Shawty Redd have trusted Seth Firkins and Five by Five Media Group with their sound, other big names include:

Jay-Z, Juvenile,Lil’ Wayne,Ludacris T.I.,  Big Kuntry King,Redd Nose, Hurricane Chris, Trina, Gucci Mane, Rick Ross Walka Flocka, Tiffany Evans, OJ da Juiceman, Fruit Man, and Marty Reid.

Firkins was chosen to be an industry-panelist at the ATL BEAT BATTLE due to his excellent reputation and work-ethic. Curtis McMurray, CEO of Money Tree Entertainment, known to his music fans as Fruit Man, famous for his first single “Man Down” and current smash record “Gangsta Rock”, said, “Seth Firkins work ethic, professional tact,and overall character are a few of the reasons that we continue to do business together – audio Engineering is Seth’s forte and I have never heard our music sound better.”

His hard work was recognized in 2008 when Firkins was nominated for a Grammy Award for engineering work done with Jay z, on the album “American Gangster” up for Rap Album of the Year in 2008. [Read more →]

The Year of the Tiger; Woods ready for the Masters.

Tiger Woods Looks At His Future

“I think it’s an honor to be a role model to one person or maybe more than that. If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do. That’s what it’s all about.” said Tiger

By Tom Wright

HOLLYWOOD,CA(Hollywood Today) 3-16-2010–He’s back,  Tiger is coming out swing for this year’s Masters. During his off time Tiger has been rehabbing in Mississippi this week leaving with Elin her wedding ring back on her finger, the two left under tight security they flew home to Florida were Tiger and Elin will continue with his in home treatments of repairing their marriage. For now she has called off the divorce from Tiger, giving him one more chance to mend his ways. The two children are their main concern as the two move into the next rounds.

Tiger Woods announced Tuesday that he will begin his 2010 season at the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in April.

According to Tiger’s Official site he has posted that he will return to the Master .

Tiger said that he has miles to go and that the Masters is his focus now, one day at a time.

Year of The Tiger Woods Ready For Masters

“The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I’m ready to start my season at Augusta”.

“The major championships have always been a special focus in my career and, as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be, even though it’s been awhile since I last played”.

“I have undergone almost two months of inpatient therapy, and I am continuing my treatment. Although I’m returning to competition, I still have a lot of work to do in my personal life” said Tiger.

In a tiger hunt the beaters are sent out first to scare up and provoke the tiger into exposing it’s self, so that the great hunters can get a cheap shot at this rare tiger.

I can only hope that the PGA will keep a tight control on any of the golf fan beaters, or stop any one that is there to take a cheap shot or try and make light of this event this is golf’s holly grounds.

All In The Family

While he is expected to return for the prestigious Masters in April, Tiger noted last month that his career hinges largely on his family.

“That takes precedent over anything I do golf-wise,” he said.

Hollywood Today wishes Tiger, Elin, Sam and Charlie all the best and we look forward to Tiger winning  this year’s  Masters.

By Karen Ostlund

HOLLYWOOD CA (Hollywood Today) 03/05/2010 — Andaz Hotel celebrated one year as West Hollywood Hotel on the strip this week.

“Never celebrate alone was their motto when they brought in their partners “French Tuesdays” (frenchtuesdays.com) and charity  The Art Of Elysium .

LA Entertainment presented futuristic dancers, violinists and saxophonist on Andaz three floors,  and the sundeck served panorama kitchen with charcuterie, braised beef, chicken and sautéed shrimp.

The one-year celebration followed with a 2 day Haven 360 Celebrity Retreat produced by Backstage Creations.

Backstage Creations was created in 2000 by Karen Wood, formerly known as a talent coordinator for many award shows including: Teen Choice Awards, MTV Awards, Kids Choice Awards, People’s Choice Awards, BET Awards and Billboard Music Awards. [Read more →]

Jessica Simpson’s The Price of Beauty premieres on Monday, March 15 at 10/9c on VH1 *** Three Stars

By Robin Rowe

Jessica Simpson in The Price of Beauty

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 3/15/2010 – “Beauty is an easy thing to become obsessed with,” says VH1 The Price of Beauty star Jessica Simpson. “People put so much pressure on women to be beautiful. There’s always a new diet to follow, a new beauty product to use, but is that really what defines beauty? I’m going to travel the world and see what makes a woman in different cultures feel beautiful.”

The Price of Beauty is part beauty guide, part travelogue, as Jessica Simpson and her peeps (stylist Ken Paves and friend CaCee Cobb) travel to sample beauty in a different culture each week. In each country a “beauty ambassador” shows Simpson the goals and consequences of the local quest for beauty. The first episode, premiering tonight, travels to Thailand. Upcoming episodes will go to France, Uganda, Japan, Brazil, Moroco, and India.

“The Price of Beauty is a show I’ve inherited, but I’m very happy to have inherited it,” says RDF USA CEO Grant Mansfield. “It’s great to have Jessica Simpson in a show like this on VH1.” (For more about RDF USA, see this story.)

“The Price of Beauty was an internally generated idea here at RDF and we immediately wanted to [Read more →]

RDF, with TV shows VH1 The Price of Beauty premiering tonight and ABC Wife Swap having its season premiere April 2nd, is combining with mega-TV European producer Zodiak to become the third largest TV production company in the world

By Robin Rowe

RDF produces The Price of Beauty starring Jessica Simpson

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 3/15/2010 – “The Zodiak deal for us is potentially transformational,” says RDF USA CEO Grant Mansfield. “It gives us access to a huge catalog of successful formats in Europe, rather than just in the UK.”

Mansfield has only been at RDF USA for about four weeks, but has worked at RDF in London for about seven years and is a significant shareholder. Besides being the U.S. CEO, he’s group director of factual entertainment and comedy, overseeing most of the production out of the UK. He sees vast untapped potential for RDF in the U.S.

“Natalka Znak is a key part of our strategy going forward,” says Mansfield. “She’s going to join as chief creative officer. She’s the star producer of non-scripted programming in the UK at the moment. She’s created and produced three of the biggest hits in the UK and a lot more besides. She’s also made those shows for the U.S. market. She’s made I’m a Celebrity and Hell’s Kitchen over here.” Znak, who Mansfield hired four months ago, will serve as the creative head of the company when she arrives in May.

“We’re very keen to get back to [Read more →]

Dartmouth, NS (RPRN/Hollywood Today) 03/15/10 — – SimplyCast.com, a leading provider of multi-channel interactive marketing software and services, is pleased to announce the launch of the first and only 7-in-1 marketing platform in the world.

The solution is the first of its kind that combines seven marketing channels into one single and powerful interactive marketing platform. The platform is designed to simplify the management of multi-channel marketing for companies and non-profit organizations worldwide by eliminating the need to purchase and manage each channel separately. This approach optimizes the communication with customers, and results in a very efficient and cost effective marketing tool [Read more →]

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club has it Sex Appeal ,Swagger, Cool Songs

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Rebels with a cause Big Tour

By Big Vic Smith

San Francisco, CA(Hollywood Today)3/15/2010–Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (BRMC) has it. The swagger, sex appeal, cool songs–it’s all there.

All this with the added grooviness of coming from San Francisco. These things are appealing in rock ‘n roll. Their ‘home’ show at Slim’s on March 10th was packed with a cool ‘in’ crowd. [Read more →]

A look inside the 2010 “Everybody Wins at the Oscars” gift baskets sent to Oscar nominees the day after the Academy Awards

By Gabrielle Pantera

Bluefox.extreme headset

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 3/15/2010 – As she took home the Oscar for Best Actress at the 2010 Academy Awards, Sandra Bullock asked “Did I really win this or just wear you down?”. At the Razzie ceremony the night before, Bullock pointed out that more people must have seen All About Steve than was generally thought in order for her to “win” the Razzie Award for Worst Actress. Bullock won an Oscar and a Razzie, but what about the other nominees, what do they get?

This year’s Academy Award nominees who didn’t take home an Oscar received a consolation gift basket from Distinctive Assets the day after the ceremony. Valued at over $61,000, let’s take a look inside this post-awards gift basket.

BlueFox Extreme Bluetooth BF-301v headset is the first voice-controlled Bluetooth headset with Max 4x Noise-Canceling Technology and Microsoft BING search. Control most functions with the sound of your voice.  The headset speaks back to you, too.

www.bluefoxextreme.com/

Gourmet artisan chocolate creations from [Read more →]

By David Mirsky

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 3/155/10 — The much anticipated 2010 Formula 1 season has finally arrived, and did it ever.  The anticipation of this new season is just not hype as one might
think, this was the real deal.

There are newly arrived teams on the
grid such as the Virgin Racing team headed up by Virgin’s super star Sir Richard Branson.

Another new team is one of the older teams related to Formula 1,
Lotus, that British racing staple with their trademark British racing green cars.

There’s also another team, so new and so confused, they have no name
as yet.  The ink on their deals are most likely still wet.  There was
supposed to be an additional new team, US F1, based in the United States,
headed up by long time racing journalist, Peter Windsor, who, ironically is a Brit.

Unfortunately, their final funding never materialized, keeping them off the [Read more →]

Evan gold for USA and Hollywood

By Anita Talbert

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 3/15/10 —  It was a cool party, not because of the breezes atop the Petit Ermitage Hotel in West Hollywood, but because of gold, the gold in the Olympic Gold Medal won by party honoree, Evan Lysacek.

Slim, stylish in a black jacket and pants, Lysacek was too modest to wear the Olympic Gold Medal around his neck, but his IMG PR lady was carrying it in her purse for those desirous of holding this coveted medal. Surprisingly heavy, it is the type of weight that must have felt light around Lysacek’s neck when he won the Olympic Gold Medal Winner and World Figure Skating Champion in Vancouver. His win was the first in 22 years for an American male at the Olympics.

Touring as a member of the cast of Stars on Ice, for now Lysacek will have to trade in his ice skates for dancing shoes as this Olympic champ slides and glides onto [Read more →]