This year’s Grammy Awards will include a special tribute to the late King of Pop. People.com has reported that the star studded award show will feature a tribute to Michael Jackson, including a 3-D film clip that was made before his June 25th death. Viewers will need special 3-D glasses in order to view the clip, which will be for Jackson’s “Earth Song”, an integral part that was to be included in Jackson’s comeback concerts. This will be the first time the Grammy’s will have aired a 3-D clip. Jackson will also be honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy during the show.
Susan Boyle became an overnight sensation with her amazing singing talent, but her home country doesn’t seem to care. Shockingly, Boyle was passed by for the 2010 Brit Awards, not receiving any nominations for any categories. Boyle’s debut album, I Dreamed a Dream, topped both US and UK charts, but People.com is reporting that perhaps the Brits don’t think of the singer as “trendy or stylish enough.” For the category of Best British Female Solo Artist, the nominees are Bat for Lashes, Florence and the Machine, Lily Allen, Pixie Lott and Leona Lewis.
People.com has announced that Britney Spears is keeping her jobs with Candie’s, the brand available through Kohl’s. The pop star signed on to be the face of Candie’s last March, starring in multiple ad campaigns since. The brand has said that they are renewing Spear’s contract throughout 2010, and will continue to appear in their advertisements and marketing campaigns.
Lucy Lombard and her three friends are addicted. To chocolate. The foursome often meet up at their safe place, Chocolate Heaven, to divulge in chocolate and digest each other’s problems. Lucy has found her boyfriend cheating on her yet again, and has to decide if she can give him a second chance- for the fifth time. Nadia, who gave up her career to be a stay at home mom, is struggling with her husband’s own addiction- the much more dangerous addiction to gambling. She is watching their money dwindle down to nothing, and has to make the decision to stay with her husband or take their son and leave. Chantal is struggling through her marriage; even though the money that came with her husband is fabulous and keeps her bejeweled can’t make up for the complete lack of any sex life. She often enters into extramarital affairs, until one man steals $30,000 worth of her jewelry and an escort she was hiring turns out to be otherwise involved- with another friend. And do-gooder Autumn is having her peaceful life broken up by her drug abusing brother moving in with her. The Chocolate Lovers’ Club by Carole Matthews focuses on these four friends and the challenges they are facing in their lives. The usual Matthews humor is there, but I could also find a serious tone underneath all the chocolate talk. The plot centers around the friends and their addiction to chocolate, but if you look deeper, each friend is struggling through other addictions- Lucy’s addiction to a cheating boyfriend, Nadia’s husband’s gambling addiction, Chantal’s addiction to sex, and Autumn’s brother with a drug addiction. The Chocolate Lovers’ Club is a favorite of mine simply because of a well designed plot, enough humor to keep me laughing, yet enough real life drama’s to let me really take something away from the women’s stories.
J.L. Penn lives in the suburbs of Maryland with her husband and daughter. She has been an avid reader and writer all her life. Although writing a book is something she always wanted to do, it was not until a stroke of inspiration hit that she decided to seriously sit down and write. To her surprise, with a tiny kernel of truth and a lot of imagination, the words just flowed out and became Reunion. She is now actively working on an unrelated novel, and a sequel to Reunion is also in the works. J.L. (Jenn) enjoys cooking, scrapbooking, romantic comedies, and music when she's not reading or writing.
Under Mother's tutelage, Eva Pasco became a proficient typist by the age of nine and soon pounded chapter stories replete with dialogue on her girly-pink Tom Thumb typewriter. In high school she composed her first novella earning its own reserve shelf in the library. On the fast track of college, Ms. Pasco's penchant for writing deferred to churning out term papers. Throughout a rewarding teaching career she dedicated her craft to drafting curriculum, developing student proficiency in creative writing, and penning poignant notes to her charges. Undergoing a mid-life renaissance, Ms. Pasco rekindled her passion for storytelling by composing fiction that taps into significant issues affecting the lives of women. Eva Pasco resides in Rhode Island by the East Bay. She enjoys the splendor of sunset from a double-hung window in the office where her fingers dance over the keyboard whenever a notion pops into her head. Sometimes the cats allow her to work undisturbed. Life is good!
