Loving Fans Donate to Actress' Favorite Charity

Fans of actress Laurel Holloman, who has starred in 5 seasons of Showtime's The L Word, are working on a unique birthday gift to present to her. Through numerous online chat rooms and message boards, fans of the actress are working together to "present" Ms. Holloman with a substantial donation to her favorite charity, Doctors Without Borders. Donations are fast closing in on the $6,000 mark. Each time a target (set in $2000 increments) is reached, a new target is set at $2,000 more.

Donation site is http://www.firstgiving.com/laurelhollomanonline.

Doctors Without Borders Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries. A private, nonprofit organization, Doctors Without Borders was founded in 1971 as the first non-governmental organization to both provide emergency medical assistance and bear witness publicly to the plight of people it assists.

Online donors can leave a message along with their contribution if they wish. Organizers of this fundraising drive hope to see the donations continue to come in after the actress' birthday on March 23rd, but are definitely excited about this generous way of letting their favorite performer know how she has impacted their lives through her work while benefitting the lives of others.

More information is available at http://www.ourchart.com/node/380458 and http://www.laurelhollomanonline.com/.

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Remember TV Series CAGNEY AND LACEY? Vote by Oct 26th

Okay Friends, Admittedly this isn't about global warming or a burning social issue, HOWEVER, it is about a TV Series that was gutsy and outrageously pioneering in its day, and still relevant to this day: Cagney and Lacey.

Released earlier this year as a DVD Series, the complete set of 125 episodes, and the first season as a separate release, it seems that just like the TV show itself, which resurrected itself from cancellation with the help of ardent viewer support in a write-in campaign, so this DVD Release has met with some opposition. Source of the resistance? Would you believe the parent company that released it? Fox Entertainment.

Although both the 1st Season and the Complete 125-Episode sets are available on line, there has been little to no push to get these into major outlets like Blockbuster and other retail venues. Call me an old-fashioned militant feminist, if you will (I will actually feel complemented), but I think there's something more afoot here. This series kicked out a whole new view of women on TV. It addressed controversial social issues in a prime-time drama that provided depth and pathos, not just "sensationalism."

So here's my request. There's an online vote coming up for an annual TV DVD Awards. Cagney and Lacey are nominated for the 1980's category. The url is below. If you can't get to it by clicking, just copy and paste into your browser. Go there and vote for the Gals. Okay?

And if that gets your "activist juices" going again, after all these years, then write me back and I can refer you to some other places you can write. There's a few of us who would like to see the other seasons produced and released as originally promised by Fox Entertainment.

Visit www.cagneyandlacey.com for more info.

Thanks,
Deb

HERE'S THE AWARDS VOTING INFORMATION:
CAGNEY & LACEY is among the DVDs nominated in the fourth annual TV DVD Awards. The public can vote on their favorite DVD releases of TV show by going to: http://reg.itworld.com/servlet/Frs.frs?Script=/LP/80196486/reg&Context=START

CAGNEY & LACEY is nominated in the 1980s series. SO VOTE! Voting ends Oct. 26. Winners will be announced Monday, Nov. 12, during a gala dinner and cocktail reception at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, CA.


MORE ABOUT THE TV SERIES "CAGNEY AND LACEY"
Christine Cagney and Mary Beth Lacey, in the 1980's TV Series CAGNEY AND LACEY "did everything their male counterparts did, but they did it like women (talking incessantly and supporting each other through everything from bad dates to alcoholism to rape to breast cancer).

"Lacey had a very complex and involving marriage, while Cagney was a career-driven woman with no desire to settle down. They were friends because they admired each other's honesty and competence, and because they could rely on each other in a dangerous job that they both loved."
[Excerpt from: http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/cops/cagneylacey.htm 6/7/2007]


From an article by Beth Corbin, appearing in National NOW Times, January 1995
Cagney & Lacey was a solid hit with the critics and viewers, winning virtually every important industry award possible, including 14 Emmys, a Golden Globe and Directors and Writers Guild awards. The series concerned the lives of two dedicated policewomen who were partners and fast friends, determined to break the stereotypes often ascribed to women in jobs not traditionally associated with them. They fought criminals, the chauvinism of their male fellow officers, the ignorance of their friends and sometimes each other.

In an article appearing in the May, 1983 National NOW Times, then-editor Toni Carabillo described the program as "not the formula cops and robbers routine -- but one of the few shows on television depicting credible women whose lives, though dramatically suspenseful and entertaining, also had some grounding in reality."

"Cagney & Lacey brought honesty about women's lives to television viewing. We saw smart, tough, determined women who now serve as role models for how life changes." - Former NOW President Patricia Ireland

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