With Election Day only 8 days away, a lovely list of celebrities have joined a major nonpartisan education effort to protect citizens exercising their right to vote in this year’s election. Ashanti, Samuel L. Jackson, Tyler Perry, Whoopi Goldberg, Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Williams, Tichina Arnold, Ana Ortiz, Blair Underwood, Vanessa L. Williams and Rex Lee recorded PSAs to remind voters of their rights as citizens and direct them to a hotline and website where they can turn for impartial advice and report problems: 866-OUR-VOTE (687-8683) and www.866ourvote.org. The PSAs are airing on TV, cable and radio stations nationwide and prominently on the E! Entertainment Television through Election Day.
Listen to some PSA:
It was Heath Ledger’s decision to join The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus that gave director Terry Gilliam both the green light and his budget. So when Ledger passed in the middle of filming Parnassus, the fate of the movie didn’t look so great.
When I heard the news about Heath Ledger yesterday I was sad in a way that I didn’t expect. It got me to thinking about why I was so sad. I can’t but wonder if it has something to do with my age and his age. There have been sad and unexpected deaths throughout my life - John F Kennedy Jr., Kurt Cobain, Chris Farley, Princess Diana (forgive me if I am forgetting some) but for the most part I had no real connection with these folks or was too young to really process it.