Thursday, August 21, 2008
Host / Co-Host Reception: 5:00 PM
General Reception: 6:00 PM
At the Home of Dave Gass & Don Karl
1724 W Steinway Drive - Phoenix, AZ 85041

Actress Scarlett Johansson will visit the Valley Thursday for a reception benefiting the Obama Victory Fund.

The actress, known for her roles in The Other Boleyn Girl, Match point, and Lost in Translation has long expressed her support for Democratic presidential candidate Barrack Obama.

The three-hour fundraiser will be hosted by supporters of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) community beginning at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 21st at a Phoenix home.

Ticket packages range from $250 to $5,000.

Source & further details: BarackObama.com

Thanks to Louise Bury for the following information regarding a new auction of Scarlett’s:

Here at handbag.com we are working on a campaign with Cancer Research UK called handbag amnesty. The aim of this project is help raise money to fight breast cancer. In order to do this we are asking a number of celebrities to donate a handbag that we can auction off.

All bags donated to the Handbag Amnesty will be auctioned on eBay from Friday 3rd - Sunday 12th of October to tie in with Breast Cancer Awareness month. Open to everyone, all proceeds will go to Cancer Research UK, the largest single funder of research into breast cancer, one of the most common cancers in the UK.

We a have a host of celebrities involved both here in the UK and from America, including a signed handbag from Scarlett.

Thanks to Elena Bush of First Book for passing on information about a fun campaign Scarlett is participating in - “What Book Got You Hooked?” (www.firstbook.org/whatbook) - a book lovers’ campaign from First Book that will bring thousands of new books to kids in need.

Now through September 15, readers everywhere are invited to share the first book that made reading fun for them and then help get more kids hooked by voting for the state to receive 50,000 new books for low-income youth.

Please click here to read Scarlett’s quote about the book that got her hooked, “The Fantastic Mr. Fox”, and learn more about this project.

Scarlett Johansson can laugh about it now, but the actress says she was embarrassed by the media coverage of her so-called “e-mail relationship” with Barack Obama.

“It seemed to me to be like a product of extreme sexism, and I kept thinking to myself, ‘God, if this was just, like, Kal Penn or George Clooney or any of the other (Obama) surrogates or supporters … there wouldn’t be (any) question about it. Nobody would even talk about it,” she said.

Johansson, a vocal supporter of Obama, told the Web site Politico.com in June that she and the Democratic presidential hopeful had been trading e-mails. Obama later told reporters that Johansson doesn’t have his personal e-mail address, and that his assistant forwarded one message from Johansson to which he replied.

“I was merely trying to express my delight at Obama’s commitment to his campaign in every aspect and his interest and his support (in) his surrogates and his staff and his fellows, and how wonderful and refreshing that is. And it was manipulated into such an unfortunate media frenzy of kind of a nonstory,” the 23-year-old actress said Tuesday in an interview from Los Angeles, where she was promoting her new Woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

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Jennifer Aniston, Scarlett Johansson and Charlize Theron are among the A-listers who signed on for the Stand Up To Cancer telethon in September.

American Idol David Cook, Christina Applegate, Meryl Streep and Sally Field also will appear on the Sept. 5 broadcast, which will be simultaneously aired on ABC, CBS and NBC to raise money for cancer research and treatment.

Dozens of other celebrities and sports figures will also be appearing on the program.

Source: People

I missed a tasty treat whilst moving… Scarlett recorded a live session for Rhapsody and it is really good. You can check out five videos as well as a nice interview over here and order the MP3s here. The gallery has been updated with related photos.

Enjoy!

GALLERY LINKS:
- Rhapsody: Stills
- Rhapsody: Interview

Right this instant, should you choose to, you can flip on over to the iTunes music store and get yourself the seven song iTunes Live Session EP from noted actress and Tom Waits aficionado Scarlett Johansson.

On the EP, Johansson runs through five of her familiar Waits covers from the recent “Anywhere I Lay My Head” LP, a take on Franks Wild Years’ Innocent When You Dream (which does not appear anywhere on “Anywhere”), and a typically woozy spin on the Cure’s immortal Boys Don’t Cry.

Live Session EP:
01 Anywhere I Lay My Head
02 Innocent When You Dream
03 Falling Down
04 I Wish I Was in New Orleans
05 Green Grass
06 Who Are You?
07 Boys Don’t Cry

Source: Pitchfork Media

Scarlett is expected to attend the Democratic National Convention in Denver on August 25.

First up, the Democratic National Convention in Denver, which begins, Monday, Aug. 25. Among the big-name performers likely to make a splash in the Mile High City are hip-hop king Kanye West, reggae/hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean and the rap/rock fusion band N.E.R.D.

A host of silver-screen and TV actors are also expected to be in Denver, according to convention sources, including: the ubiquitous Ben Affleck, Scarlett Johansson, Warren Beatty and wife Annette Bening, Forrest Whitaker, Maggie Gyllenhaal (who stars with the late Heath Ledger and Sen. Patrick Leahy in the new Batman movie The Dark Knight), Cheryl Hines (of Curb Your Enthusiasm, a Sleuth fave) and Ed Norton Jr.

Source: Washinton Post Blog (thanks ScarlettSkies!)