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...Media Contacts: Ty Trippet, TIME 212-522-3640, Kim Noel -3651 or Jen Zawadzinski...
...gooder hit Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Oprah's giveaways and crusades was Three Wishes, in which Christian-rock singer Amy Grant bestows largesse on needy people every week. Time was, the occasional celebrity like Audrey Hepburn would lend her profile to a cause. But Grant and Makeover's Ty Pennington are a distinct kind of charitainment star, celebrities whose good deeds are their chief claim to fame. Their shows aim not just to solve personal problems (help autistic kids, build a school library) but also to salve the nation's wounds (build houses for soldiers in Iraq, give...
...thing of all: one of their own. Five days after New Orleans' levees collapsed, flooding the city, Natrena, a home health aide who had stayed behind to help a patient get into a shelter, was stranded on the rooftop of a motel along with her two young boys. When Ty'iyr, 22 months, had an asthma attack, he was airlifted to a hospital, but there was no room in the helicopter for his mom or brother Telly, 5. A few days later, Natrena and Telly were rescued and eventually reunited with the rest of the family in Houston, but they...
...First Lady Laura Bush is going to guest-star on a special edition of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. She'll be helping rebuild a shelter in Biloxi, Mississippi, and applying oils to [host] Ty Pennington's chest...
...Recalls Tyson Bromell II, her rural-development director: "She pulled me to the side, and asked me, 'Where are all the buses?' I said, 'We've been told not to send them, that there were already enough buses.' And she just looked at me and said, 'Get those buses, Ty.'" But the Governor acknowledges she made mistakes. "I'd have had more helicopters standing by. More resources standing by. We didn't expect the water," she says. "I would have wanted a faster response. We have to have a better communications network...