When Sandy Speaks People Listen
As if Sandra Bullock didn’t already have enough on her plate — new house, new baby, global super-stardom — now she’s taking on Congress and fighting to clean up the Gulf.
Bullock is just one of the celebrities putting her star power to good this week in a public service announcement for Restore the Gulf, which encourages folks to sign a petition demanding Congress provide long term funding to gulf states following the BP oil spill.
Bullock is joined by Dave Matthews, who says that this is “a national problem that requires a national solution,” Harry Shearer, Blake Lively, Eli and Peyton Manning and Emeril Lagasse.
The project was started by Women of the Storm, and organizers hope to collect one million signatures. Watch the video below and sign the petition here.
George Clooney To Get “Good Guy” Emmy
Clooney hasn’t been on television for ages (Oh, Dr. Ross how we do miss you on Thursday nights), but next month the actor will be honored with the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the Emmys for his work on the Hope For Haiti television special. George’s fundraising for victims of Hurricane Katrina and his efforts to raise awareness about the genocide in Darfur also contributed to the nomination.
John Shaffner, the chairman and chief executive of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, said Clooney was “an obvious choice” for the award because he used the power of television to move people to act.
The Humanitarian Award was established in 2002. Clooney is the fourth recipient of the honor and will receive the award at the Emmy ceremony on Aug. 29.
Former Teen Idol Debbie Gibson Credits Mom For Keeping Her From Lohan’s Fate
Debbie Gibson was the teen pop star all of us women of a certain age longed to be. The Anti-Gossip remembers some pretty inspired talent shows featuring a performance of Electric Youth. But unlike a lot of the troubled teen stars of today, Gibson was able to stay out of trouble and eventually evolve from Debbie to Deborah, to enjoy a successful career on Broadway.
How’d she do it?
In an appearance on FoxNews.com’s The Strategy Room, Gibson said she was able to stay grounded amid the “juggling act” of fame because she and her inner circle put her emotional well-being at the top of the priorities list.
“Luckily, my mom managed me and she always said ‘I want a sane, happy, healthy daughter who goes on to have a normal personal life and kids if you want and I don’t want you to be exhausted and burnt out by 25,’” she said. “The [paparazzi] would not have caught me stumbling out of a club drunk at two in the morning. They might have gotten me coming out of a bowling alley with a diet coke, if they were lucky.”
And we’re sure she was wearing her underwear.
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