Waterdog Films announced  plans to premiere the feature film “16 to Life”, written and directed by Emmy‐nominated director Becky Smith.

The award‐winning 16 to Life is a romantic comedy that puts a wry, witty and unpredictable ensemble cast in a small‐town locale reminiscent of a Capra comedy. Critics have often compared 16 to Life to the films Juno and Sixteen Candles. “16 to Life” follows Kate (Halle Hirsh), a teenager whose angst about her sexual inexperience fuels a comic quest for love and understanding on a birthday to end all birthdays.
Kate is turning Sweet 16 – and has never been kissed. … Read More »

ATO Pictures (co-founded by Dave Matthews) and Samuel Goldwyn Films are pleased to announce the release of MAO’s LAST DANCER, opening in 10 theatres across the US on Friday, August 20th.

From Academy Award® nominee Bruce Beresford (DRIVING MISS DAISY, TENDER MERCIES) comes MAO’S LAST DANCER, the inspiring true story of Li Cunxin and his extraordinary journey from a poor upbringing in rural China to international stardom as a world-class ballet dancer.

Based on the best selling autobiography, MAO’S LAST DANCER weaves a moving tale about the quest for freedom and the courage it takes to live your own life. The film … Read More »

Who says you can’t make a life changing connection on social media? A year or so ago, I met the fabulous Tory Johnson through Twitter. No, a tweet didn’t make the relationship. You can only develop a real connection through social media if you close the computer and actually talk with the person. (What a novel concept!!)

One look at Tory’s amazing bio.. and you know she’s the real deal.  While you may know her best as the Workplace Contributor for Good Morning America, she does so much more to empower women and help them turn their passion into … Read More »

The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex
By Kristen Schaal and Rich Blomquist

Welcome to a Sexy World of Sexy Sex

Sex is the most powerful and important thing in the universe, and if you aren’t instantly good at it you probably never will be and everyone will laugh at you. This is something you should know before even attempting sex.

Fortunately, you hold in your hands the ultimate guide to getting your rocks off, rigorously field tested by the authors. Every sexual technique they have tried. Every erogenous zone they have erogenated. Every STD they have suffered … Read More »

The Kitchen Shrink: A Psychiatrist’s Reflections on Healing in a Changing World

Dora Calott Wang is a Yale-trained psychiatrist who began her career as a doctor with great enthusiasm. But after less than a decade of her practicing medicine, that enthusiasm was shattered by the seismic shifts that shook the entire medical profession.

Once a cherished, even sacred, vocation, medicine has become a business driven by profit. What made medicine turn its back on its central tenets? In The Kitchen Shrink, Wang explores what happened, through the prism of her own research and experience. In these pages we watch as she struggles … Read More »

Academy award winner and activist Susan Sarandon is lending a hand to help children trafficked for sex with the launch of The Body Shop®, the Somaly Mam Foundation and ECPAT USA Stop Sex Trafficking of Children and Young People Petition. The petition encourages Americans to lend their signatures to help lobby for ‘Safe Harbor” laws, protecting victims of sex trafficking from being arrested and prosecuted for prostitution. To help bring an end to sex trafficking, The Body Shop is asking customers and supporters to go to their local The Body Shop store or online at www.thebodyshop.com/stop to sign the petition … Read More »

I love airports. Perhaps not my small-city airport where all the planes depart and arrive at the same time every morning and evening, making for baggage claim chaos and a customs line that’s long and winding, but I do love me some big city airports. They’re like a city within themselves. Nay, a world within themselves, with every country and culture represented. There are bookstores and coffee shops, fashion purses and duty-free stores. There are women with tears in their eyes saying goodbye to lovers and men holding flowers as they wait for … Read More »

On July 22, 2010, I attended the book signing for Real Housewives of New Jersey, Teresa Guidice.  She happens to be one of my favorite housewives on the show and when I heard she was signing books near my office I had to try and go. Although that show is filled with drama, it does have its family moments.

The family moments I love the most are the ones with Teresa. In the Season 2 premiere, we saw Teresa cutting tomatoes and making sauce while teaching her kids in hopes to continue that tradition. As an Italian-American, my mother did the … Read More »

After a couple days of traveling through Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, I realized that something was missing in my life.  It was something that I take for granted, don’t always appreciate when it’s around, and often expect, but am let down…it was courtesy and friendliness, helpfulness.  I truly think that the one exception I observed was a person not ignoring me, but a man that was actually quite deaf, and once I realized that, then “voila”, he joined the troup of the affable.

It started with basics – I heard “please” and “thank you” and “excuse me” from young and old; … Read More »

James Bond 007: Blood Stone Delivers Intrigue and Explosive Third-Person Action for the Xbox 360®, PlayStation®3 system, Windows PC and Nintendo DS™ This Holiday Season

Award winning artist Joss Stone is set to debut as the newest Bond girl in Activision Publishing, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: ATVI) James Bond 007: Blood Stone, an original Bond experience from legendary screenwriter  Bruce Feirstein.  In addition to stepping into a leading role, Grammy and BRIT Award winner Joss Stone will create original music for the game, luring players into an explosive third-person action adventure where they will unravel an international conspiracy across exotic locales. Players will … Read More »

Looking for a wet and wild time this summer?  How about white water rafting?

Growing up in Jacksonville Florida my family and I would go camping in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Georgia.  One year when I was approximately 8 years old we tried white water rafting on the Nantahala River.  Honestly I don’t remember much of the trip except for that at the very end was a class 3 rapid called Nantahala Falls.  The reason I remember that is the river guide said it was not a good spot to fall out.  Well guess what I did?  I fell … Read More »