Angelina Jolie (37) has revealed today that she has undergone a double mastectomy. Writing in the The New York Times, in a piece called "My Medical Choice", Jolie said it was a preventative measure. Her doctors had estimated she had an 87% chance risk of breast cancer and 50% risk of ovarian cancer. "Once I knew this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much as I could. I made a decision to have a preventative double mastectomy" Jolie wrote.Jolie lost her mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand to cancer in 2007 - when Bertrand was only 56.... More »

It seemed to me that Jeanne Cooper was just always there. She's always been around - at least for as long as I've lived in North America. So when I heard today that she had died, it was almost as if someone I knew had passed away. I first saw Jeanne Cooper as "Katherine Chancellor" on The Young and The Restless when I was eleven years old. I had not been in Canada long and didn't speak the language particularly well. Home from school, I would count on our TV as a way of passively listening to the English language while trying to absorb all the... More »

"My mothering style? A great pair of New Balance sneakers and a perpetual awareness of my weaknesses. They're gonna bite me in the butt at any given moment!!! It's a minefield out here in parenthood."  says Chantal Kreviazuk (38), a week before celebrating Mother's Day. She is best known as a talented Canadian singer and songwriter with hit albums and Juno Awards under her belt. Yet Kreviazuk is also a mom to three boys: Rowan (9), Lucca (8) and Salvador (5) with husband Raine Maida, the lead singer of Our Lady Peace. Now Kreviazuk is adding the role of "Mom Ambassador" to her list of accomplishments. She is one... More »

Is there anything more spectacular than having Dame Helen Mirren (67) swear at you - while dressed as The Queen? A troupe of drummers outside the John Gielgud Theatre found out firsthand on Saturday when they got a royal telling-off - thanks to Mirren. According to The London Telegraph, the actress was on stage in the award-winning play The Audience portraying Queen Elizabeth II, when a group of drummers made so much noise outside the theatre that it was getting hard to ignore. What's a Dame to do? Address them of course - in full costume, complete with a tiara: "I was so upset from struggling... More »

Reese Witherspoon's arrest video has surfaced on TMZ and what can I say? I enjoyed watching it!  Witherspoon has issued an apology and admitted to having one too many glasses of wine. That's pretty clear, because you'd have to be pretty drunk to mouth off to an officer when he is just doing his job.  Until now, I thought the "Don't you know who I AM?" line was the best. But the Academy-Award winner can be heard saying typical things you'd hear in movies such as: "I'm an American citizen... I'm allowed to stand on American ground!" and  "You're saying I'm obstructing... More »

Chris Kelly, one half of the 90's boy-rapper band Kris Kross was found "unresponsive" in his Atlanta home and pronounced dead after 8pm yesterday.So far, no further details have been released.You may remember this band from the early 1990s as two cute boy rappers who wore their clothes backwards..Along with Chris "Daddy Mac" Smith, Kelly was discovered at a mall as a thirteen year-old by music mogul Jermaine Dupri.In 1992, the duo became famous after releasing Kris Kross' multi-platinum album Totally Krossed Out. That album spawned the hit "Jump" - arguably the duo's most famous song.Kris Kross made some recordings since 1992,... More »

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for US Documentary at Sundance, Blood Brother is a deeply moving film about how one person with steely determination and limitless love truly  can make a difference in the lives of others. The film tells the story of Rocky Braat who decided to go to India on a journey of self-discovery. In what proves to be a life-transforming encounter, he visited a care centre for women and children living with HIV and AIDS. Despite never really liking children, Braat returns home to Pittsburgh announcing he'll be moving to India to work at the centre. His best friend... More »

It's the middle of the night. Hundreds of people have traveled for days to wait in line for basic medical treatment from a Remote Area Medical clinic (RAM). Many huddle in pop-up tents and some sleep on the ground. Some have never been to the dentist. Others are in desperate need of glasses. Most are poor and have no medical coverage or easy access to doctors.This is not Africa, Guatemala or a remote part of the Amazon.This is Bristol, Tennessee.There are 44 million Americans who do not have medical coverage, leaving many of them to rely on pop-up clinics like... More »

Gwyneth Paltrow, aka People Magazine's "Most Beautiful Woman", attended the premiere of her movie Iron Man 3 and revealed quite a bit of herself. The 40 year-old showed up on the red carpet of El Capitan Theatre wearing a floor-length Antonio Berardi gown and seemed to forget to wear any underwear. The result? She revealed a view of her naked side bum for everyone in attendance. Of course, this was not an accident. The design of the dress has sheer side panelling which doesn't allow for any panties to be worn. She chose the dress knowing this and also knowing that it would create... More »

Say what??? Yes, what I am about to tell you is a true story. This is what went down. On Friday, Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon (37) was driving with her husband CAA agent Jim Toth (42)  in Atlanta, Georgia where she is currently filming a movie. His car was pulled over by police after it was spotted driving in the wrong lane. As the officers were about to arrest him for driving under the influence (DUI) and failure to maintain a lane while driving, Witherspoon did not sit by quietly. Instead, she got into a war of words with the... More »