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Still, some viral stars, like Tsui, are proceeding with caution. ("I would like to eventually be known as more than just that guy on YouTube," he says.) For two years, Irena Schulz has been fielding media offers for Snowball the cockatoo, whose Backstreet Boys dance has been seen nearly 3.3 million times. The former molecular biologist in Dyer, Ind., chooses shows for her bird carefully and has drafted legal agreements to make sure he'll be portrayed in a positive light. But despite appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman and Good Morning America, she says viral videos aren...
...local time on June 25, and the awful news raced quickly from the ER through the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Even veteran nurses reacted like many of his fans soon would. "They were hysterical. They're going, 'Michael Jackson is dead, he's dead!' They were catatonic," Irena Medavoy, wife of studio chief Mike Medavoy and a junior high school friend of Jackson's, told People. She was arriving for an appointment when the ambulance bearing Jackson pulled up. "I was there for about an hour and a half, and by the time I got out, people outside...
...oblivious to much that is happening in the world outside the theater. Even the season's hit political satire, Will Ferrell's You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush, is one Administration - and what seems a whole political era - out of date. Dan Gordon's Irena's Vow, starring Tovah Feldshuh as a Polish-Catholic woman who saves a dozen Jews from the Nazis by hiding them in the cellar of the SS officer's house where she works as a housekeeper, seems just as old hat: an earnest but clumsily staged Holocaust melodrama...
...Some 2,500 Jewish children in Warsaw were spared death at the hands of the Nazis from 1940 to 1943 thanks to the efforts of Polish social worker Irena Sendlerowa. Through a variety of means--smuggling children through sewers, hiding them in suitcases or even in her clothing--Sendlerowa brought young Jews to safety while German forces razed the Warsaw ghetto. Later, when captured and tortured, she never gave up their names. Though honored by her country and nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, Sendlerowa did not consider herself a hero...
...News Vice President for Media Relations Irena Briganti declined to comment on the record for this story...