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Dodgers Opening Day with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

read about it in Kareem’s blog!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/kareem/2008/04/nostalgia-and-d.html

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Superhero Premiere

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Ban Seal Hunt Press Conference Paris Video

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Pamela Anderson, Geoff Courtnall partners in housing project at Ladysmith

Pamela Anderson, Geoff Courtnall partners in housing project at Ladysmith

Carla Wilson
Times Colonist

Thursday, March 06, 2008

CREDIT: Times Colonist file
Pamela Anderson has teamed up with Geoff Courtnall for charity events. Now, they’re working on a residential development in Ladysmith, Anderson’s home town.
Celebrity friends Pamela Anderson and Geoff Courtnall have teamed up at plenty of charity events over the years. Now they’re working together to develop a residential project on Anderson’s grandparents’ property in Ladysmith.

“It is something that Pamela is going to get very involved in - in the promotion and marketing of the project,” Courtnall said yesterday.

When news of plans for the 83-unit, condominium-townhouse development appeared on Anderson’s website last year, 150 calls of interest poured in, he said.

Movie and television star, sex symbol and animal-rights advocate Anderson was raised in the historic community of close to 7,000, between Duncan and Nanaimo.

Victoria native Geoff Courtnall coaches the Victoria Grizzlies, following a career as a professional hockey player with the National Hockey League.

Their friendship is long-standing. “We have met over the years while I was playing hockey…. We have done different charity events together.”

U.S. resident Anderson has returned to the Island to support charities. For example, she was a celebrity guest here in 2004 at the Courtnall Celebrity Classic golf tournament, aimed at raising funds for mental-health support. “She does a lot of charity events,” Courtnall said.

A development permit application from Anderson and Courtnall’s company, Frontrow Developments, has been submitted to Ladysmith …

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On The Set of Superhero Movie

February 25, 2008 - “Look, there’s Pam. There she is!”

On the set of Superhero Movie, the latest parody from the guys that brought us Naked Gun and Airplane, in the midst of hoodied production assistants and Blackberry-ing publicists, those six whisper-yelled words put everything to a record-screeching hault. All guys want to hear those words but very few actually get to see what they are referring to. Not only did IGN hear them, we also saw ‘em… er, her — Pam. Pamela Anderson. She passed by us with a nod and a smile, and we instantly needed a cold shower.

And as the actress walked (strut and entourage free) onto the set, the crew and onlookers not so much parted but rather accepted her entrance as though she had always been welcome, like she was just one of the guys.

Or perhaps it had something to do with Pam’s cleavage-redefining, Sue Storm-inspired outfit she barely wore that day — Pam’s first day of shooting, on what is sure to be a comedy that goes nicely with a double screening of Scary Movie. The makers of the hit Scary Movie franchise are behind the latest installment of pop-culture parodies, this time setting their sights on the world and tropes of superhero films, everything from Spider-Man to Batman Begins. The comic-book movie genre is ripe for some fun poked at its expense, and who better to do it than the creators of …

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Pamela A Fine Antidote For Canadian Greyness-

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Girl from Ladysmith makes powerful impression as defender of animals
Ian HaysomCanwest News Service
Saturday, February 23, 2008
CREDIT: ReutersPamela Anderson: During a recent visit to Paris, she delivered a letter from Brigitte Bardot to the Canadian ambassador.

I have been cruel to, and taken predictable cheap shots at, Pamela Anderson many times over the years. She has been an easy target: Big hair, big lips and big babooms. Jiggling all the way to the bank. And that barbed wire tattoo is a sad cliché.

The girl from Ladysmith is 40 years old now, has two kids, three former husbands (if you count the one she married after she offered him sex to settle a gambling debt and is now divorcing), at least two successful TV series under her belt and is still successfully strutting her stuff.

Earlier this month she was in Paris where she appeared at the Le Crazy Horse, the famous burlesque club, and stripped for an appreciative audience.

Le Crazy Horse was the scene of one of my favourite lines in a movie — What’s New Pussycat — where Woody Allen works as a dresser for the strippers. Peter O’Toole asks what the pay’s like. Woody replies, “Twenty dollars …

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Wall Street Journal: The Power of Pam

When the commercial history of the Internet is written, whose names will appear among the chief catalysts?

Beyond cybervisionaries such as America Online founder Steve Case, you could also make a powerful argument for including Pamela Anderson Lee, actress, chronic centerfold and star of what is now perhaps the world’s best-known home movie.

Ms. Lee, owing in part to a naughty self-made honeymoon video and its strange route onto the Web, owns the hottest name on the Internet. All across the Web, sites use the name of the former “”Baywatch”" star and estranged wife of rock drummer Tommy Lee to attract visitors to their pages. From Ms. Lee’s own official site to thousands of X-rated sites to random outposts like Expert Bathtub Liners, a plumbing-supply company in Ann Arbor, Mich., she’s the Web’s top drawing card.

By some calculations, there are more than 145,000 pages citing Ms. Lee — most of them hawking products or services. That works out to about 0.1% of the 150 million Web pages indexed by the AltaVista search engine, which is owned by Compaq Computer Corp. As a percentage, that doesn’t sound like much. But it is the equivalent of walking into the New York Public Library and finding that 13,300 of the volumes there are written about her.

Her name has become a brand to rival Coke or Pepsi; on the AltaVista search site …