Sunday, January 25, 2009

News Round-up

Agoura Hills sisters are young stars on the rise
Three years separate sisters Vanessa (Eden, Y&R) and Laura Marano, and they don’t look remarkably alike. Still, if you didn’t know better, it would be easy to mistake them for twins.

They complete each other’s sentences. They talk zealously about each other’s work. They share equally high ambitions.

The Agoura Hills sisters are passionately pursuing the craft of acting that they have loved and studied for as long as they can remember.

HOME AND AWAY in LA
Former HOME AND AWAY stars like Tammin Sursok, Chris Egan, Justin Melvey and Chris Hemsworth are finding success in Hollywood.

Historic Wedding on ALL MY CHILDREN
Brides.com went on set to watch the taping of Bianca and Reese's wedding, which is scheduled to air on Feb. 16., to learn all the ceremony details. It's a winter wedding, so the floral decorations flanking the aisle were huge, standing cascades of white silk flowers. The brides carried identical red bouquets. Frosty snow flecked the chapel windows. Bianca's daughter was a flower girl dressed in a red velvet Lucy Sykes outfit.

A Soap Opera’s Sex Is All for a Good Cause
A soap-opera style film shot this month is not intended for entertainment — it’s part of a research project designed to change attitudes about safe sex among young women. And the finished product will be distributed via cellphone videos.

“The soap-opera format provides an opportunity to identify with the heroine and make more-powerful choices after they see her make more-powerful choices,” said Dr. Rachel Jones, who created the project.

Using entertainment to spread public health messages is not new. A pioneer in the field was Miguel Sabido, who created soap operas with messages about safe sex, family planning and education in Mexico in the 1970s.

Univision Sets 'Webnovela'
Univision Communications and programming partner and supplier Televisa may have settled their differences over royalty payments, but Univision has wasted no time in securing non-Televisa content for several of its media properties.

The latest is an unprecedented partnership with giant TV content producer Endemol and Amistad Productions to produce VIDAS CRUZADAS (Crossed Lives), an online telenovela (or Webnovela) scheduled to premiere in the second quarter on Univision.com.

Univision Online, which earlier this year was renamed Univision Interactive Media, is now under the helm of former AOL vice president Kevin Conroy, who took over the division Jan. 12.

The 15-episode Webnovela, still in pre-production, marks Univision's second incursion in the genre. (The first was the 2007 MI ADORADA MALENA, featuring Puerto Rican model Cynthia Olavarría, which was developed with Unilever.)

Goodbye to all that: DAYS OF OUR LIVES dumps John and Marlena
Entertainment Weekly's Nicholas Fonseca writes: "DAYS' sendoff for the pair was a rush job, a pathetic train wreck that all but wrapped up a year-long storyline in about 20 minutes, but I can’t say I was surprised. The series has always treated its departing cast members with astonishing flippancy, and we longtime fans have come to expect this sort of masochistic abuse each and every time."

This week's LA Canyon "Gold Standards"
Tommy Garrett writes: "This week’s soap gold standards were plentiful. Having to choose between them was really tough. But always trying to be fair, I narrowed it down to three soaps: THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, AS THE WORLD TURNS and GENERAL HOSPITAL."

LIPSTICK JUNGLE Clothes Stolen, eBayed By Stage Manager
A stage manager has been charged with stealing $30,000 of designer bags and clothing from the television show LIPSTICK JUNGLE and trying to sell them on eBay.

GH's Thompson scored four goals at celebrity hockey event
GENERAL HOSPITAL heart throb Jason Thompson led a star studded field of celebrities and NHL alumni with four goals at the 2nd Annual Luc Robitaille Celebrity Shoot Out Presented by D.I.S.C. Sports and Spine Center to benefit Echoes of Hope that was held Sunday to tie in with the Sundance Film Festival. Scott Wolf, formerly a star in PARTY OF FIVE notched three goals and ultimately helped lead Team Echoes to a one goal victory over Thompson and Team Hope 13-12. A 30-minute highlight show will run on the NHL network in the near future.

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