A Letter From Nick Lea:

Hi Everyone!

Myself and some other friends have a very close compadre that is
suffering through a life threatening bout of cancer. She was
diagnosed with breast cancer 2 years ago and it has now spread to her
liver. Our friend Babz Chula is a widely unique and wonderful person.
She is a highly respected and talented actor. She has a heart the
size of Texas.

She has chosen a particular course of treatment that is not covered
by our medical system in Canada and we, her community, have gathered
in an attempt to help her through a very scary part of her life. To
this end we have organized a number of fund raising events to help
cover the cost of this very expensive undertaking.
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Oscar singing Kermit’s song, “Not that easy bein’ green?”

No hoopla planned for a green carpet at this Sunday’s upcoming Academy Awards. Perhaps show business folks grew wary of the flack last year for eco inconsistencies with flight patterns. Or maybe more focus was put on ending the writer’s strike.

While Vanity Fair canceled their legendary after-party bash in sympathy with the writers, Global Green plans to celebrate again with their 5th Annual Pre-Oscar Party this Wednesday night. Tix range from $250 to $5,000, with proceeds going to the non-profit’s green houses in New Orleans and more.

Stars attending the gala include Adrien Grenier (between Entourage and prepping his show for Discovery Channel’s Planet Green), Alicia Silverstone, Val Kilmer, Dana Delany, Chris Kattan, Big Love’s Ginnifer Goodwin, Brothers and Sisters’ Balthazar Getty, and Pirates of the Caribbean’s Vanessa Branch. Also Salma Hayek and Josie Maran of the org’s committee of luminaries, which also includes Orlando Bloom, David Duchovny, Charlize Theron, Kate Bosworth, Ed Norton, and Leo D.

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On TV and online, in print and at retail, Pedigree’s brand is puppy powered

Pedigree makes an emotional appeal for dog adoption in its new campaign.

On a rainy Saturday morning, dog lovers from around the country have lined up inside the Pedigree Dogstore in Times Square to get a first look at the dogs available for adoption. A sleepy beagle named Rex lies against a wall, nonchalantly lifting his head once in a while to check out the commotion brewing around him. A hound named Cherokee wags a tail and sniffs at every leg that passes. And volunteers from New York no-kill shelter Animal Haven cradle puppies from a Labrador-mix litter. Downstairs, a black puppy sitting on a woman’s lap in a street-level store window draws in pedestrians bustling along the busy midtown Manhattan street.

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After trying for weeks to salvage the high-luster Golden Globe Awards
ceremony, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. is set to announce today
that it will forgo the annually televised black-tie event scheduled for
Sunday in favor of a scaled-down press conference broadcast on NBC.

The compromise would allow the winners to receive their awards but
would cut out the lavish dinner and ceremony, an event the Writers
Guild of America had vowed to picket.

The extended press conference would be covered by NBC News, which,
though part of NBC Universal, is not a division affected by the ongoing
writers strike.

The 9 p.m. press conference would be preceded by a “Dateline” special
on the nominees and a clip show and would be followed by an hour-long
“Access Hollywood-style” program covering the Golden Globes parties
around town, according to what NBC has told the studios.

According to an email sent to the movie studios by NBC on Monday, the Golden Globes broadcast would proceed as follows:

At 7pm NBC will air Dateline with clips and interviews with nominees.
(Currently scheduled to air for two hours on Saturday night.)

At 8pm, NBC is in talks with Dick Clark Enterprises for a one-hour retrospective/clip show.

At 9pm there will be a press conference covered by NBC News announcing the Golden Globe winners. (9pm-10pm)

At 10pm NBC will broadcast an “Access Hollywood” style, Golden Globes party show… visiting the various parties in Hollywood.

Courtesy: GoldDerby.com

David Duchovny to star in Showtime series
The actor, whose last regular TV gig was The X-Files, will be the lead in the cable net’s new comedy, which is expected to debut this summer (paired with new episodes of Weeds).
Duchovny’s character, divorced writer Hank Moody, is addicted to women
and has complicated relationships with two ladies he loves: his
16-year-old daughter and his ex-girlfriend (Natascha McElhone).

David directed an episode of the Fox TV series Bones that will air in 2 weeks on Wednesday, December 13 called Judas on a Pole:

Booth and Brennan learn that a dead FBI agent was working on a case of corrupt members of a bank robbery task force that decided to frame civil rights activity Bobby Page in the 70s. They ask that the agent’s remains be recovered from his grave as they believe the Bobby Page case was manufactured. Is Booth ready to deal with the consequences of him investigating the death of a former FBI agent? Russ, Brennan’s brother, introduced to her and Booth Father Toby Coulter (played by Ryan O’Neil). The latter claims he has been given a message for her by her father: “Back off.” Zack has to defend a dissertation he wrote in front of a judgmental professor and his colleague. You can download the zipped MPEG trailer here. (30 Mb.)

I actually watch this show on a regular basis and enjoy it very much. If you’d like to play catch-up in the next 2 weeks, you can download episodes for free from Fox’s My Space. There’s even a Mulder and Scully reference in the pilot!

Some nice Bones sites:

• The Official Fox Website
• David Boreanaz’s Blog actor’s official blog
• Beyond Bickering shipper site
• Books and Bones fan and screen cap site
• david boreanaz web lead actor fan site
• emilydeschanel.com lead actress fan site
• bones-forum.com discussion board
• Devoted to Bones fan news site

At this point I have no idea if David will do any promoting for this episode, so if you have any news, please write me at gertie@duchovny.net and I will post it here.