This Saturday is A Sister's Gift, a 2K walk/run sponsored by a foundation that tests, identifies and provides HIV positive women with resources to enhance and prolong their lives. You could participate in the walk/run, which starts at 9 a.m. at Reverchon Park in Dallas, but the event is also looking for volunteers to help with registration, setup, cleanup, decorations and logistics. Contact Cheryl Edwards at 214-421-4274 or at cledwards@asistersgift.org for more information.
Bill Murray has offered an explanation for his recent golf cart/drunken driving incident in Sweden: He was just giving people a ride home from a party. He says he had six people loaded onto the cart, circus clown-style, before he began making his rounds. He dropped one couple off at a 7-Eleven.
I had the same reaction upon reading this as Murray: "I didn't know they had 7-Elevens in Stockholm."
It's last week's news, but it's so totally wrong that I've GOT to mention it: Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan will star in the film version of Mamma Mia!, quite possibly the most pointless musical ever created. So plug your ears and get ready for some ABBA sung by people old enough to remember when it was first released. Ugh.
And in other pop news....I got to dance to the new Britney on Sunday at a club (Rich's) in San Diego. And though I was sweating to death -- imagine an entire city that somehow never learned to properly use air conditioning -- it was still spectacular. Almost made me forget about that Mamma Mia! thing. Almost.
Let's all shake what our mamas gave us a few times to honor the birthday of Young B, a.k.a. Beyonce Knowles. Though she's had quite a life already (the first Destiny's Child CD dropped when she was 17), there are only 26 candles on her diamond-encrusted cake. Both the ice and the icing are deserved, for she's brought us much joy over the years with her bootylicious bubblegum pop, her Dreamgirls divadom and her arm-rasing paparazzi poses. Jay-Z ought to use this occasion to go ahead and get on one knee, or else his bird might follow through on the words of her annoyingly ubiquitous hit single, "Irreplaceable." Wouldn't that have him looking so crazy (right now)?
Other birthday wishes go out to Wes Bentley (Look! A floating grocery bag!), Shar Jackson (officially K-Fed's coolest ex) and Damon Wayans (Was he the one in Mo' Money?).
You gotta listen to Britney's new song, "Gimme More." I'm not that fond of the recycled dance beats and breathy "I used to be able to sing" vocals. Check it out for yourself.
People reports Brit-Brit will perform it "live" at the VMAs. Getting ready for the performance it what first linked her to Mind Freak Criss Angel. But they're just friends, right?
The Colombian pop star's new single "Me Enamora" (loosely translated, "I'm in love") was released worldwide today. Listen to it here. He's not exactly treading new ground -- it's got the same bouncy pop hook as his previous hits -- but the song's catchy. Plus it's Juanes, and I will listen to anything the man records.
Yet another new book about President Bush is out and hits bookshelves today, and in it, journalist Robert Draper writes that the prez has shed tears many times during his presidency.
Yes, we are familiar. We have, too.
In Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush, Draper quotes W as saying, "I've got God's shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job. I'll bet I've shed more tears than you can count, as president."
Not only that, Bush mentions he'd like to build a "Fantastic Freedom Institute" in Dallas once he leaves office.
According to one of Bush's imaginary friends, early blueprints have this fantastical place looking something like this.
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