Just a few hours after the end of their 20-year marriage became public knowledge, Jane Seymour and James Keach hosted their 3rd Annual Open Hearts Foundation event, a non-profit charity organization, which donates funds to other groups doing important philanthropic work in the areas of health, sports, arts...

The murderous shooting rampage in July of last year at a crowded Aurora, Colorado movie theater forced Warner Brothers to immediately pull the trailer running in theaters depicting an eerily similar scene from the upcoming film Gangster Squad. What I'm sure was a painful, expensive decision for Warner...

Jane Seymour's mom taught her that when you find yourself facing insurmountable challenges, if you help someone worse off than yourself, it will also help you. This simple, kind, philosophy is the root of the actress' "Open Hearts Foundation." Her nonprofit honored several charities last month at her...

Hal Holbrook was honored with the Julie Harris Award at the Actor's Fund 15th Annual Tony Award Viewing Party in Los Angeles on June 12, 2011. Previous recipients of the award have included Julie Harris, Rita Moreno, James Earl Jones, Lauren Bacall and Liza Minnelli.

The star-studded fundraising event was...

I knew seeing Sophia Loren on the red carpet at the Academy Tribute was going to be a great and fortunate moment in my life, but I had no idea this iconic role model could still inspire me to feel good about being a woman now, at my age, the...

I'm pretty sure that I'm the most cash-strapped person at the red carpet events I attend on a regular basis as a Los Angeles freelance reporter, but I do meet the coolest, most interesting people and once in awhile I even get dinner.

Such is the case when I was...

The nation's hopes soared for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords when President Barack Obama reported at a memorial for the victims of the Tucson rampage that she'd opened her eyes, and after Nancy Pelosi witnessed Giffords follow her husband's commands. But a top neuro-scientist whose miraculous recovery from her own brain trauma...

Seeing Arianna Huffington in Beverly Hills the other night was a full circle moment for me. A year ago a Huffington Post Technology Editor (Jose) asked me to blog about collective consciousness and that was the first step on a writer's journey that brought me to Los Angeles. I felt...

If you have to get something done with no time, money or concrete plan, there are two kinds of people you can always count on: chefs and video production pros. Throw in the latest technology and there is nothing they can't accomplish! Luckily for me I have solid roots and...

Are we becoming a nation of fearful sissies? If you watch the news, listen to talk radio, read viral emails and comments on YouTube or even Facebook, it sure seems like that might be true. And it makes me wonder if technology is the cause of keeping the fear level...

I'm the first to love technology when it brings us together, promoting understanding, lifting the level of our collective consciousness and helping us realize the best of our humanity. But in this era of instant communication, I'm still finding contact doesn't always equal connection.

Technology in the suburbs seems...

Twenty ten. It's grammatically correct and no doubt rolls off the tongue easily. If I wouldn't have read my friend Alastair's Facebook posting, I'd probably be saying it too, but I have decided unequivocally that from now on I'll be saying "two thousand ten" instead and here's why -- Alastair...

Are you tweeting your good cheer this year? Putting up Facebook photos for those long distance relatives? Are you sending email Christmas cards to save paper, postage, time, the world? I love to hear from friends, so thank you all for the cat playing jazz piano holiday tunes, really! Yes,...

What if Albert Einstein had a computer in elementary school? What if Ghandi had followers on Twitter throughout the world? What if Mozart had Garage Band on his Mac? What if Confucius had a blog? Imagine Leonardo Da Vinci with Photoshop? Or Socrates with a talk show? These brilliantly influential...