| | | Pilot Role Accepted | | | | Bell signs up for Lifetime "Wives" pilot
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Former "JAG" star Catherine Bell has joined the cast of Lifetime's ensemble drama pilot "Army Wives."
Sally Pressman stars as a sassy woman from the wrong side of the tracks who marries a soldier, moves her kids to a military base and becomes friends with a diverse group of Army wives, three of them played by Bell, Kim Delaney and Brigid Brannagh.
In a departure from the headstrong Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie she portrayed on CBS' "JAG," on "Army Wives" Bell will play the wife of a major -- a devoted homemaker who is enduring physical abuse at the hands of her teenage son.
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| | | | | Catherine Bell - Thyoid Cancer Survivor | | | | ThyCa’s Thyroid Cancer Awareness Brochure featuring actress Catherine Bell, co-star of the hit TV series J.A.G. and thyroid cancer survivor.
This free brochure presents information about thyroid cancer types, signs to discuss with the physician, as well as ThyCa’s free support services and education available worldwide. Thyroid Cancer Survivors Association
You can read about Catherine's experiences with thyroid cancer, and read her story in the brochure.
The American Cancer Society and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimate that there will be about 30,180 new cases of thyroid cancer in the United States in 2006. Of these new cases, about 22,590 will occur in women and about 7,590 will occur in men. About 1,500 people (870 women and 630 men) will die of thyroid cancer in 2006.
Free copies of the brochure are available by sending an e-mail with your mailing address to thyca@thyca.org or writing to ThyCa Brochures, PO Box 1545, New York, NY 10159-1545. |
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| | | Update Update Update Update Update Update | | | | Having starred in “The Triangle,” the Sci-Fi Channel’s Bermuda Triangle-themed miniseries, last December, Bell went on to make a major CBS pilot called “Company Town,” dealing with the lives of government agents, with a cast including Sherry Stringfield, Michael Michele, Gary Cole, Ian Anthony Dale, Esai Morales and Blair Underwood.
Directed by Thomas Carter, it looked like a hot bet for a while — but did not make the cut for fall. |
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| | | | | Support A Worthy Fundraising Effort | | | | Catherine is a member of the honorary committee for the 13th annual Uncork A Wish Wine Tasting and Auction. This is a great cause! Other celebrity committee members include, Kelly Preston, Halle Berry, Antonio Banderas, Luc Robitaille and Noah Wyle.
Conceived as a Valentine's Day celebration at the Santa Monica Airport's Museum of Flying in 1993, the wine tasting and auction fundraiser quickly outgrew that location and was moved into the Airport's Barker Hangar four years later, where it remained until the decision was made to move to the more centrally located Pacific Design Center this year. Attended by approximately 1,500 people annually, the funds raised have been used to fulfill hundreds of wishes for children with life-threatening medical conditions.
The Pacific Design Center is located at 8687 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, California 90069-5701. General Admission tickets are $125 in advance and $150 at the door. Wine and food tasting is included in the price of admission. Guests must be 21 or older to be admitted into the event. For more information, visit http://www.wishla.org or call 310-899-9191. |
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| | | | | A Piece of Memorabilia | | | | If you are a fan of Catherine Bell who likes to clip articles and collect memorabilia, then maybe this is for you.
In celebration of Catherine's birthday and success in her profession, last August the UK Office for births, marriages and deaths made available Catherine's birth certificate for general purchase.
http://www.bmd-certificates.co.uk/catherine_bell.html
For something slightly novel, check it out! |
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| | | Catherine's Humanitarian Efforts | | | | Catherine's supportive efforts of the organisation CCHR, citizenscommissiononhumanrights should be applauded.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- On Feb. 25, Kelly Preston, Jenna Elfman (Courting Alex), Anne Archer, Catherine Bell (JAG), Marisol Nichols and Jennifer Aspen (Rodney) joined hundreds of human rights activists including medical doctors, psychologists, and parents on the forefront of exposing psychiatric drug risks at the annual awards banquet of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a psychiatric watchdog established by the Church of Scientology.
With more than 8 million American children being prescribed psychiatric drugs with serious and life-threatening side effects, and new reports of ADHD drugs causing heart attacks, strokes and death, children’s advocates say government drug regulators must stop listening to psychiatrists who vehemently promote such drugs as safe and effective, and issue "black box" warnings labels on all ADHD drugs, CCHR said.
The psychiatric drug industry’s influence over the FDA has long been a subject of criticism, said CCHR, citing the amount of FDA psychiatrists receiving pharmaceutical funding who are allowed to participate in drug review processes. Reflecting such concerns, U.S. Senator Charles Grassley asked for a complete list of conflict disclosures before an advisory panel to the FDA reviewed the risks of ADHD drugs on Feb. 9, 2006.
Perhaps due to the senator spotlighting conflicts of interest, the advisory committee urged the FDA to issue its most serious warning label -– the black box -- for all ADHD drugs due to 51 deaths linked to the drugs. However, the actual death toll appears to be much higher, as documents on record with the FDA, and obtained through Freedom of Information Act by Pediatric Neurologist Fred Baughman Jr., uncovered an additional 160 deaths from ADHD drugs between 1990-1997.
Earlier this year the FDA said it would review the same ADHD drugs for potential to cause hostility, psychosis, mania, hallucinations and suicide, prompting celebrities Kelly Preston and Kirstie Alley to join 100 medical doctors in a joint letter to the FDA demanding it take quick action to warn the general public. A joint statement from the actors stated, "We can no longer sit back and let the clock tick, waiting for more deaths, suicides or people driven to violent acts by psychotropic drugs. The FDA must continue to be vigilant, to root out other substances that have -— one way or the other -— slipped under the radar screen, and are now wreaking havoc with the nation’s youth."
Critics say the multi billion dollar psychiatric drug industry is fighting against further warnings that could plummet drug sales -– following a 25 percent decrease in antidepressant sales for under 18-year-olds after the FDA finally issued black box warnings of suicidal reactions.
CCHR says that psychiatrists have created the multi-billion dollar child drugging industry, putting children’s lives at risk, by fraudulently promoting mental "disorders" such as ADHD as medical conditions requiring dangerous and life-threatening drugs, despite the fact that there are no brain scans, "chemical imbalance" tests, X-Rays or any medical/ scientific evidence to substantiate psychiatric disorders as an illness or disease.
For outstanding achievement in exposing psychiatric abuses of human rights, CCHR's annual human rights awards were presented to psychologist and professor of Law, Justice and Society, Dr. Jeffrey Schaler; Dr. Julian Whitaker, founder of the Whitaker Wellness Clinic; Harvard attorney and psychologist Christopher Barden, and social activist Kim Witzcak.
For more information, contact Marla Filidei at 323-467-4242 or log onto http://www.cchr.org to read the Report on Escalating International Warnings on Psychiatric Drugs.
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