New Aids campaign focuses on joie de vivre
swissinfo.org
April 29, 2005

A new government-sponsored campaign, "Love Life – Stop Aids", is aiming to spread a positive message about sexuality.

Whereas previous campaigns concentrated on education, the new approach by the Federal Health Office and the Swiss Aids Federation also puts the stress on enjoying life.

Thomas Zeltner, director of the Federal Health Office, said on Friday that a "rethink" was necessary because of the need to make younger people pay more attention to an apparently familiar issue.

Zeltner said there was a growing indifference to HIV/Aids, as new treatments mean it is perceived as less of a threat nowadays.

"Many people think there’s a cure for HIV/Aids," he said. "That is a fatal mistake."

This year the campaign’s budget is SFr3 million ($2.5 million). This will cover television, cinema and radio adverts, posters and the new Love Life website.

The website gives advice and facts on HIV/Aids and provides further information about campaigns past and present.

The poster campaign, which starts on Monday, features Oscar-winning actress Renée Zellweger, whose father was born in Switzerland, and Marc Forster (director of the Oscar-nominated Finding Neverland), who grew up in Switzerland.

In the posters, the celebrities emphasize the campaign’s two central messages by giving the V for victory sign.

Click on picture to link with the website at  http://www.lovelife.ch/stopaids.php

ZELLWEGER HITS OUT AT EATING DISORDER REPORTS
contactmusic.com
April 28, 2005

Hollywood loves biographies -- and 2005 is no exception
canoe.ca
April 23, 2005

CINDERELLA MAN (June 3): Russell Crowe teams with A Beautiful Mind director Ron Howard to play Depression folk hero Jim Braddock, who defeated the legendary Max Baer to become heavyweight champion. Renee Zellweger plays Braddock's wife Mae. Crowe received Oscar nominations for playing real life cigarette industry whistle blower Jeffrey Wiggand in The Insider and tortured genius John Nash in A Beautiful Mind proving the Academy voters love him in biographies. Now if only he can refrain from a slug-fest or bar brawl during nomination and voting times, this one could bode well for him. Zellweger was nominated for Chicago and Bridget Jones's Diary before winning her Oscar for Cold Mountain proving her colleagues just love her.

OSCAR NOMINATION CHANCES: 10 to 1

Zellweger Voicing Seinfeld's Bee Movie
comingsoon.net
April 21, 2005

Cinderella Man star Renée Zellweger will voice a character in Jerry Seinfeld's Bee Movie this summer.

"It's an animated feature... [that] he wrote and will produce and star in. It's fantastic, so smart," says the Oscar winner. "I'm playing the florist,'' Zellweger adds. ''I'll pop in for a little while in June. I look forward to spending some time and bouncing ideas off the wall with him.''

The DreamWorks computer-animated feature will be set in an anthropomorphized world of bees.

"I have always been fascinated by bee society, the world's most harmoniously run organization, and now I finally am going to be in it," Seinfeld said when the project was announced. "The enthusiasm of Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg for this idea is the main reason I decided to do it."

"Bee Movie' follows a bee just out of college who sues humanity for mass theft of his winged species' honey.

Infinity Award Winners From ICP
artnet.com
April 19, 2005

The International Center of Photography has announced the winners of its 2005 ICP Infinity Awards. Susan Meiselas is the recipient of the 2005 Cornel Capa Award, and fashion photographer Bruce Weber is recipient of the Getty Images Lifetime Achievement Award. Other honorees are Tomás Munita, Vince Aletti, Loretta Lux, Deborah Turbeville, the New Yorker and Lodz Ghetto Album: Photographs of Henryk Ross. The gala award ceremony on May 10 -- a fund-raiser for the ICP -- is hosted by Renée Zellweger at the chic new Skylight party space in SoHo, and sponsored by Getty Images.

A biography of Renee Zellweger
London, England
April 16, 2005

At first glance: If it looks like an Oscar and smells like an Oscar … chances are Martin Scorsese isn't anywhere close to it.

Sorry, low blow. But seriously, tossing Crowe, Zellweger, Giamatti and Howard into the same bowl of cinematic chowder is at least a recipe for a Golden Globe or a People's Choice Award.

Crowe plays real-life boxer Jim Braddock, a down-on-his-luck fighter and family man trying to scrape by in the Great Depression. But then he's given another chance and an inspiring underdog story emerges.

Zellweger is skinny this time around; her stomach must be more confused than Richard Simmons' leg hair follicles.

Zellweger, publicist honored
usatoday.com
April 10, 2005

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood publicists wigging out on journalists is an everyday occurrence. Publicists wigging out on their own celebrity clients is another matter entirely.

But that's what happened to Renee Zellweger while she was promoting her film Nurse Betty back in 2000, the same year her publicist and close friend, Nanci Ryder, was battling breast cancer.

"I'll never forget we had an event to go to, and Nanci's wig wasn't fitting right," Zellweger recalled at Friday's What A Pair fundraiser, a benefit for the Revlon/UCLA Breast Center, honoring Zellweger and Ryder, who has recovered. "She grabbed that thing and tossed it across the room and said, 'Let's go.' Bald head and all.

"As crazy as it sounds, there was a lot of laughter. She was so brave and always had a joke."

Zellweger has weathered her own bad-hair days of late. After a long stint as a brunette for her upcoming role in Cinderella Man, the actress has returned to her blond roots. But the coloring process proved quite an ordeal.

"I've become very, very, very good friends with the girl who does my hair," said Zellweger, who turned cagey when asked about the status of her previously announced Janis Joplin biopic. "Who knows; we'll see" is all she'd say.

Zellweger wore a green Carolina Herrera gown with a diamond bracelet Christmas present given to her by "a very dear friend."

This was the third annual What A Pair event, a play on words that features duets by female stars.

STARS DUET FOR BREAST CANCER BENEFIT
contactmusic.com
April 6, 2005

Eighties chart-toppers DEBORAH GIBSON and TAYLOR DAYNE are among a host of celebrities set to perform duets for a breast cancer benefit show in Los Angeles.

On Friday (08APR05), a long list of women will take part in WHAT A PAIR, a celebration of women's duets to benefit the REVLON/UCLA Breast Center, which will take place at the University of California, Los Angeles.

OSCAR-winning actress RENEE ZELLWEGER has been chosen to receive a special honour for her efforts to eradicate breast cancer.

Renée ... Blonde again !!!
foxnews.com
April 05, 2005

[...] And a big hello out there to Renée Zellweger from your recent server at Starbucks on Ninth Avenue in Manhattan. I'm told that you and your companion — boyfriend maybe? — couldn't have been nicer.

Renée is blonde again. She and her friend made the server's day while she got them a triple-espresso something-or-other.

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