Moonlightaholics

wpgrace wrote:

willing freshie wrote:OK. Well, if she continues to get out there promoting it all during the next year, then fine. I know I seem like a B**TCH but I have just lost a dear friend and fellow teacher to cancer last night (at 49) so that may color my views a bit.

I am sorry WF... that would put anyone on edge... we have a friend struggling for life right now and my husband is a survivor...

Celebrities often adopt causes because it has some connection to someone they know too... In one of the interviews in which JLo appeared this week, she did note that the Latino community has been particularly plagued with the return of the Whooping Cough... which would make sense, as there are some within the very large Latino community in America who are poor and/or uninsured and/or illegal and thus don't seek medical help or get vaccinated. If the Latino community is particularly hard hit by the disease... JLo would be an appropriate spokesperson for it... and would likely feel a sense of responsibility to add her influence to getting vaccinated...

Thanks, Grace! She was healthy in Sept., teaching first grade, then she thought she had the flu, then she thought she had walking pneumonia, and,finally, in December, when she couldn't breathe on her own, they found she had lymphoma. They treated her, but she died last night. She left 3 teenage sons.


That may be true. The school where I taught until last year here in the LA area is very high in poor Latinos. I am a bilingual teacher and we have not heard a thing about this in the elementary schools. I would think if it was so prominent, we would be sending home flyers to the parents.

Unfortunately, many of these illegal immigrants do not vaccinate. They will not go to the doctors until they are actually sick. Socialized medicine in Mexico is not preventive; you go when you are ill. J Lo will have great trouble reaching these people.

Right now, we need to watch out for the swine flu, which is killing many in Mexico City and is beginning to show up here. It originates from pigs. I would be more worried about that spreading than the very off-chance your child gets WC. This is much more serious and widespread. Besides, unless J Lo is doing these interviews on Spanish TV, she is not aiming at the right community. They don't watch RR or Regis or any of those. She may be doing that although my husband watches a lot of TV in Spanish,( being from Mexico City) and we haven't seen her there. If promotion is not her aim, than she should be on the stations to reach the more highly affected populace. (She may be; if anyone here finds out she did that, please correct me.) She has the Latino influence for it, after all.
Otherwise, well, you decide where her motivation was.



ETA: Gracie, my husband is also a survivor (prostate cancer). 8 years cured!

I really don't want to get into a big debate about this sicne we're already waaaay off topic, but J-Lo did shoot a PSA for this. Where that PSA is airing, I don't know. I would assume in areas where her name would mean much more. Perhaps the bigger cities? I don't know.

I see her participation in this as I saw Alex's participation with the Red Cross. I'm sure it was something he cared about, but I'm sure it was also started as PR both for the Red Cross and for him. Little difference between what he did and what she's currently doing, IMO.

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Now....back on topic.....in the movie there is an older woman who is Zoe's Nana. Has anyone heard who might have been cast in that role? It's a pretty substantial role, so I hope it goes to someone with real acting chops and funny to boot. For some reason Rita Moreno springs to mind. I'll be interested to see who gets the role.

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SirenSong wrote: Now....back on topic.....in the movie there is an older woman who is Zoe's Nana. Has anyone heard who might have been cast in that role? It's a pretty substantial role, so I hope it goes to someone with real acting chops and funny to boot. For some reason Rita Moreno springs to mind. I'll be interested to see who gets the role.

I would love to see Rita Moreno in this. What a great thought, SS!

Rita Moreno would be perfect casting. See, we are once again doing all the difficult work for the Hollywood hot-shots!

I love the Rita Moreno idea!

So who's got Les Moonves' cell number? Maybe we should call and pass along the idea. Or maybe use that suspicious e-mail address that CBS supposedly put out for Alex fans and put that to good use.

SirenSong wrote:So who's got Les Moonves' cell number? Maybe we should call and pass along the idea. Or maybe use that suspicious e-mail address that CBS supposedly put out for Alex fans and put that to good use.

If I had Les's #, I would have called him last year to "chat"!!

Fleur de Lisa wrote: If I had Les's #, I would have called him last year to "chat"!!

Can't imagine what you had on your mind last year to talk about??

I like that idea and Rita Moreno is one of Jennifer's idol so i bet she'd be thrilled.

Jade wrote:I like that idea and Rita Moreno is one of Jennifer's idol so i bet she'd be thrilled.

And the 2 of them look similar, so, that would work.

Off to check out who Rita Moreno is on IMDB as she's not a familiar name to me. Looks like she may be busy anyway as 4Chosen is in pre-production right now too.

MSJ_sunglasses wrote:Off to check out who Rita Moreno is on IMDB as she's not a familiar name to me. Looks like she may be busy anyway as 4Chosen is in pre-production right now too.

She's a singer/actress/dancer who has been around a long time. I am guessing that she has to be in her 70's.
(wasn't she in West Side Story?)

Fleur de Lisa wrote:

MSJ_sunglasses wrote:Off to check out who Rita Moreno is on IMDB as she's not a familiar name to me. Looks like she may be busy anyway as 4Chosen is in pre-production right now too.

She's a singer/actress/dancer who has been around a long time. I am guessing that she has to be in her 70's.
(wasn't she in West Side Story?)

She was indeed (she was Anita). She's 77. She was also fabulous in Marlowe (the James Garner movie incarnation) and had a longstanding role in Oz as Sr. Peter Marie. Her CV is massive - hundreds of film and TV roles.

Red

redwinter101 wrote:

Fleur de Lisa wrote:

MSJ_sunglasses wrote:Off to check out who Rita Moreno is on IMDB as she's not a familiar name to me. Looks like she may be busy anyway as 4Chosen is in pre-production right now too.

She's a singer/actress/dancer who has been around a long time. I am guessing that she has to be in her 70's.
(wasn't she in West Side Story?)

She was indeed (she was Anita). She's 77. She was also fabulous in Marlowe (the James Garner movie incarnation) and had a longstanding role in Oz as Sr. Peter Marie. Her CV is massive - hundreds of film and TV roles.

Red

Oooh, now I know who you mean. I've seen her in Oz! Wow, is she 77? Okay, just realised that Oz is probably 10 years old right?, so she'd probably look older now...