7 posts tagged “charity”

This Ali G interview for Red Nose Day with David and Victoria Beckham is a laugh—and in many cases, very clever. I keep thinking this was the funniest—especially as the Beckhams know what he’s like, unlike many of his other subjects.
   As many of you know, wankster Ali G is played by Sacha Baron Cohen, and was far more famous than his other characters, Borat Sagdiyev and Bruno, on his old TV show.

From this month’s Children in Need fund-raiser on the BBC. The other video has been removed by the BBC from YouTube so enjoy this while it’s still there. Not as funny as the Dr Who ones in the past.
   I think this is the first time we have seen Ashes to Ashes’ 1982 hairstyles on telly. Chris looks more 1980s now but also a little strange.

[Cross-posted] With less on the newswires today except for more Sarko and Bruni, we thought we’d put up a few of the unpublished images from the Lucire server. Here are two that didn’t make publication for one reason or another: American Idol’s Katharine McPhee (mentioned by Summer Rayne Oakes in Lucire 20) at a skin cancer benefit hosted by Too Faced Cosmetics in May 2007; and, in the same month, two models at a Diesel function in the same area. These were from Lucire’s west coast editor Elyse Glickman.

This might not be the first ever, but it’s the first I’ve seen. It’s a charity promo starring the main cast members of Ashes to Ashes, the Life on Mars spin-off, wearing their 1980s (not 1970s) gear. The Austin Mæstro is a C reg, which from my memory puts this at 1986, a tad later than the 1981 setting the new series is meant to have.

Unless, of course, the young lady in the passenger seat has gone back to 1986 and has seen the Gene Genie as everyone seems to do …
   It’s good seeing Phil, Dean and Marshall, and note the name of the driving school on top of the Mæstro!

This Canadian campaign has caused people to be up in arms—well, those who didn’t see that it is a satirical campaign raising awareness of the use of child soldiers in war zones all over the world.
   It was sent to me by Helen Cameron, a long-time reader of my blog. She sent one link which showed that there were members of the public so incensed by this that they tore down posters advertising Camp Okutta.
   But that is perhaps the reaction that the producers of the ad, WarChild Canada, a registered charity, wanted.
   When we are confronted by images of kids with AK-47s—and, let’s be frank, they are usually African kids in an African jungle—we find that there is some distance between us and them. WarChild Canada has been clever by setting Camp Okutta in Canada itself, using kids of different races in a local setting. It brings home the message far more effectively than a street campaign or one founded in reality.
   Have a glance: it certainly made me think about the issue in a different way.

[Cross-posted] John Mennell at the Magazine Publishers’ Family Literacy Project, with which Lucire is affiliated, told me today that his organization now has s. 501(c)(3) status, which means more and better fund-raising options. You’re free to help this literacy programme to help kids read by visiting this page and downloading an appropriate badge.
   In John’s words, the Project is ‘the first and only national, magazine industry-wide literacy effort for children and families,’ and it’s our pleasure to support it.
   John and I began working together in 2005 and met that year. Through a Lucire event, he met Stacie Jones Upchurch (The Apprentice), who wound up supporting John’s group through her Harlem store.