Big Brothers Big Sisters to Honor Paula Wagner, Abigail Breslin & Michael Sitrick at 2008 Rising Stars Gala. Larry King, Alan Arkin & Cuba Gooding, Jr. to Present. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles will honor outstanding members of the Los Angeles community at its Rising Stars Gala, October 30, 2008 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel. The awards recognize individuals who are inspiring and positive role models for young people. Producer Paula Wagner, actress Abigail Breslin and publicist Michael Sitrick will be honored. Honorary gala co-chairs are Roy E. Disney and Sherry Lansing. Comic actor Fred Willard will host and the evening will feature entertainment by the cast of the movie musical, Forever Plaid as well as international singing sensation Charice Pempengco. ….
JoAnne Worley will open with a cabaret performance. Pam Dawber and Cynthia Garrett will conduct the “Make-a-Match” appeal. A fantastic opportunity drawing will be held and tickets are available at http://www.BBBSLA.org.
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Cuba Gooding, Jr. will present the “Sherry Lansing Award” to producer Paula Wagner. Wagner has worked in the highest ranks of the entertainment industry as a powerful talent agent at Creative Artists Agency, as a successful producer through Cruise/Wagner Productions, and as co-owner and CEO of United Artists Entertainment, LLC.
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Alan Arkin will present the “Young Heroes Award” to award-winning actress Abigail Breslin who serves as a positive role model to young people. Arkin co-starred with Abigail in her most memorable role in the critically-acclaimed movie Little Miss Sunshine.
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Larry King will present the “Walt Disney Man of the Year Award” to Michael Sitrick, Chairman and CEO of Sitrick And Company.” Sitrick has provided advice and counsel to more than 500 companies, including some of the nation’s largest corporations and high profile individuals.
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For more than 50 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles has been dedicated to empowering children who face economic, emotional and social challenges through a variety of programs, providing a professionally-supported, one-to-one mentoring relationship with a positive role model. Their work is as elementary as putting an adult friend in a child’s life, and as essential as putting hope into a child’s future. Big Brothers Big Sisters have proven successful in creating and nurturing relationships between adults and children. Mentoring works-one young person at a time. For information, please call 1-800-207-7567 or visit http://www.BBBSLA.org.
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SOURCE Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles
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more pictures of Charice during the 2008 Rising Stars Gala
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Hi KV,
When we have pictures of Charice how do we post it? I only know how to post the links.
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“But the real “Rising Star” of the night was Charice Pempengco, the 16-year-old Filipino singing sensation. The tiny gal with the huge voice wowed the audience with her astonishing rendition of “I Will Always Love You,” leading to wild cheers and a standing ovation.
Who needs Tom Cruise, anyway, when the next generation of superstar is in the house?”
HAH!!!
dhorskie, thanks for this!
KV
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Celebrating Big Brothers Big Sisters at The Big Bash!
Jenny Peters
October 31st, 2008 @ 10:30 AM – Beverly Hills, Calif.
Expectations ran high on Thursday night, Oct. 30, that superstar Tom Cruise would turn up at The Big Bash!, the annual Rising Stars Gala put on by the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles and the Inland Empire, despite the fact that he’s living in New York at the moment while his wife Katie Holmes stars in a Broadway show. But we all know that he has his own plane, and can fly off at a moment’s notice, which is why he was expected, since Paula Wagner, his long-time friend and producing partner, was being honored with the organization’s Sherry Lansing Award.
But Tom didn’t make the trip to honor Paula’s mentoring skills; instead, his “Jerry Maguire” co-star and Oscar-winning buddy Cuba Gooding, Jr., did the honors. But first, earlier in the evening, that raucous actor jumped on stage with Joanne Worley and Fred Willard to help them run the live auction when bidding began to sputter.
“Hey, you white people with money, quiet down!” he joked, then led the multiracial crowd that filled the Beverly Hilton Hotel in repeating his signature saying, “Show me the money!”
Plenty of money was eventually raised for the BBBS organization, which also honored publicist Michael S. Sitrick with the Walt Disney Man of the Year Award and 12-year-old actress Abigail Breslin with the Young Heroes Award as stars Alan Arkin, Doris Roberts, Pam Dawber, Sarah Purcell, Jodie Sweetin, Jennifer Freeman and Larry King looked on.
But the real “Rising Star” of the night was Charice Pempengco, the 16-year-old Filipino singing sensation. The tiny gal with the huge voice wowed the audience with her astonishing rendition of “I Will Always Love You,” leading to wild cheers and a standing ovation.
Who needs Tom Cruise, anyway, when the next generation of superstar is in the house?
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Charice is a very talented kid. She deserves all the success…. keep on singing….. youre making the world a better place!!!!
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Singer Charice Pempengco performs at the Big Brothers Big Sisters 2008 Rising Stars Benefit…
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Bon Appetit Supper Club Hosts David Foster Dinner
Charice’s Pictures:
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Mylongers, one of the YTubers watching Charice ‘Billie Jean’ performance, mentioned that Cha appeared the other night on NBC TV’s Dr. Phil and sang with Donald Trump present. anyone else heard about it? or have a video maybe we can watch later?
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my user name here was edysarmi
Re: The Most Talented Girl in the World
Oct 1, 2008 3:40 PM | In response to: harpobear
It would be nice if DF would reconsider the
option of recording her first album asap.
Majority of Charice fans are adults. It’s her
advantage too while she’s young, it will attrack
younger audience.
I already pre-order both DF/hitman cd/dvd,
can’t even wait for that.
Just my opinion.
Thanks Oprah and DF and everybody else out there,
you know who you are….
Great Voice, Charice
right on ebjohns prayers been….answered
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im soooo happy for Charice!
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Is there really a post c0ncert interview of cha and ms.Celine on oprah? I cant view it here c0z im only using my celf0ne and i cant find it on youtube.Can u please send me those videos?Here’s my email. ms_j24get@yahoo.com…Tnx!
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This is my first time 2 c0mment here. But im always reading and visiting charicemania.Im 0ne of her fans. Gudluck cha! Stay humble.
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Yes!, surely charice will top among these rising stars. Lets get started!
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Someone said in the chatroom that shes going back to California after Macy’s so this is it!!! Wow – more HOLLYWOOD people for Charice to see. Larry KIng is there, wow!!!Her Life is like a soap opera that we always wait for whats going to happen next.
heyaaahhh!!! OMG — we dont have to wait for 2010. They are going to make an album before she turns 17!!! You are so Blessed Charice!!!
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To All! I always visit this site and Charicediva. I do not post comments or chat all the time. But i make sure i copy all the links and post them to the Charice’s Thread I Started last June in Female Netwrok just to make people be updated of Charice’s performances and let them know what is the Latest Happening on Charice.I often see Miyam210 and Clotheswhore there. They posted some links and comments too.
The Network is not just a Charice forum unlike this site. That is why it is not always busy comparing to Charicediva and Charicemania.My goal is to make all Filipinos or Foreigners( yes Foreigners because i have so many friends abroad)to love Charice. I always update the thread with links and News, I send personal messages or emails to my friends and people i know all about Charice once i got the latest infos.
We need to Promote Charice everywhere so her success will really Push Through!
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For me, it’s a good news if she’s no longer with ABS-CBN. She shouldn’t tie herself (like exclusive)in any network in the Philippines. That’s at least when she goes back there, she can guest in any of them.
Like Lea Salonga, she appears and guests in any TV network in the Philippines because she’s not tied to ABS-CBN, GMA or whatever. She can promote her shows in whichever network.
In the Philippines, if you are kapuso fanatic, you only know most of Kapuso artists. If you are Kapamilya, you only know most of Kapamilya artists. I bet, those who are kapuso fanatics know only a little about Charice or.. “could be” know nothing at all about her”.
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Cizcan, ha ha ha you are funny but it is really a possibility. Why not? At the moment, it seems like the sky is the limit for our Princess.
Right now, I feel like I am a kid on a roller coaster, Weeeeeeeeee ….
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Guys, let us just look forward to all the positive things that has come Cha’s way and be thankful to the Lord above for it. ABS-CBN is unpleasant history for everybody. Kudos to Cha for maintaining her professional composure despite all the boo-boos she had experienced working with these people. Oprah and David Foster showed not only to us but to ABS-CBN how a shining star of Cha’s brilliance should be nurtured and handled not only at the local level(US) but at the international level (Canada,etc) as well. And if ABS-CBN have an iota of humility in them, they should radically mend their ways of handling homegrown talents. I believe Filipino artists can hold their own anywhere in the world given the opportunity and a capable organization or individuals to support them. At the moment, ABS-CBN’s performance in showcasing Filipino talents is not something to be admired about; not even in Asia and to the rest of the world for that matter.
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Wow!Exposure to more movie moguls especially Ms.Paula Wagner, CEO of United Artist. Can a movie soundtract featuring the magnificient voice of our CHARICE not far behind??VERY EXCITED TOO ABOUT HER FIRST ALBUM TO BE LAUNCHED BEFORE HER 17 BIRTHDAY!!!WE LOVE YOU CHA-YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!
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Cool Charice!!! Woww you’ll meet Larry King too!
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WOW CHARICE!MORE AND MORE SHOWS! I’M REALLY HAPPY FOR YOU.
I NOTICE IT TOO LEO, I GUESS ABS-CBN DOESN’T WANT TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH CHARICE NOW. WELL, THEY’RE NOT MAKING ANY MONEY OUT OF HER SO WHY SHOW HER ON THEIR NEWS RIGHT? REALLY BAD.
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i think Charice has no more ties/contract with ABS-CBN i think i might be wrong,
someone correct me if im wrong.
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soar high charice. we are here right behind you…
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Can someone explain the deafening silence of ABS-CBN News on Charice? Would you believe this, they would rather feature something insignificant like “the dancing policeman” and you could even get the latest news about Charice on Oprah and in France but not on her mother studio!…There’s really something wrong in the way and the manner they treated and handled Charice and i think we deserve to get some explanations from them!
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So THIS is the event she was going back to LA for! Wow! For sure there will be TV coverage on this one, right? I hope anyway!
Hang on to your seats, guys & gals! The Charice! Nozomi (Shinkansen) Express has officially taken off!! And if you know anything about Shinkansen trains, they don’t wait for ANYONE!
KV
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WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!
you are so super busy now our princess. make sure to take care of your health, your voice specially. stay healty OK?
we want MORE, & MORE & MORE of you CHARICE…
love,
PHX
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