I am so happy to be able to give away Hawthorne: The Complete First Season on DVD! I watched last season, and I absolutely LOVED the show. Jada Pinkett Smith is amazing as Christina Hawthorne, chief officer. My man Michael Vartan stars as Dr. Tom Wakefield. The show is gripping, and engrossing. Once you start watching, you won’t be able to stop!

This is why I’m so pleased to give away the complete first season! You can get caught up – and watch as Season 2 premieres at 9:00/8:00c on Tuesday, June 22nd on TNT!

Need a recap of Season 1? Go here!

HAWTHORNE: The Complete First Season DVD hits streets on June 15, 2010!

Synopsis: Juggling both family and career, recently-widowed nursing director and mother of a teenage girl, Christina Hawthorne (Jada Pinkett Smith) struggles to hold the middle ground in a battle between bureaucratic administrators, heartless doctors, and apathetic colleagues who are caught up in a system that’s forgotten whom it’s there to serve.

OWN Season 1 on DVD Go here!

DVD Special Features:
• All In A Day’s Work – A Conversation With Jada Pinkett Smith
• Inside Richmond Trinity
• Get To Know The Cast Of HawthoRNe
• HawthoRNe Medical School
• Male Nurses
• Shooting A Scene – Visual Effects
• HawthoRNe’s Heroes

Actors:
• Jada Pinkett-Smith
• Joanna Cassidy
• Michael Vartan
• Christina Moore
• David Julian Hirsh
• Suleka Mathew
• Hannah Hodson

“Engrossing! Ms. Pinkett Smith is quite convincing as a spitfire who tramples over rules and regulations to reach her goals.”
-The New York Times, Alessandra Stanley

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Here’s a sneak peek at the Season 2 premiere!

WINNERS:

• Laurel W.
• Kay A.
  

Willow Smith is quite the little diva! At 9 years old, she’s certainly making a statement with her mohawk! And Jada Pinkett-Smith sorta freaks me out! Her mouth does weird things.

The old Karate Kid Ralph Macchio showed up for the premiere as well. You’ll always be my Karate Kid, Ralph.

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According to NYDailyNews, there’s trouble behind the scenes of “HawthorRNe”, and sources say it’s being caused by star Jada Pinkett Smith’s husband, Will Smith.

The cast, which also includes Michael Vartan, just returned to the set this week after an unplanned, eight-day hiatus – and although one source says it was because of an illness in the Smith’s family, another
well-connected insider suggests it was imposed by the network to sort out all of the production’s complications.

The second snitch continues that TNT executives are blaming the show’s current issues on Smith – a co-producer on “HawthoRNe” – because he isn’t cooperating with the rest of the team.

“He is not currently shooting a movie, so he’s been a constant on the set in recent weeks,” the network source says. “He’s been inserting his input and requesting so many changes to the script that it pushed back the production schedule tremendously and caused everything to spiral out of control.”

Pinkett Smith plays a nurse on the hit show, which premiered last year to stellar ratings. But despite the first season’s success, our insider says her husband wants the dramatic scenes pushed to the limit – and he apparently submits pages of notes and rewrite requests to the show’s writers and producers each week.

A rep for TNT had “no comment” on the matter, and Smith’s flack said that this was “untrue.”

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It’s been a long-time rumor that Will Smith and wife, Jada are very open with their sex lives. So open that Will was said to be bisexual, having a number of male partners, while both were said to be swingers.

In a new radio interview, she defends herself and her husband against the rumors.

She says, “I’ve heard all the things — their marriage is not real, he’s gay, she’s gay, they swing. But at the end of the day, people have to believe what they have to believe.”

At this point, she says that they have no plans to try and convince people otherwise, they’re just trying to live their lives.

She says, “One thing Will and I are not here to do, is like, what’s real for us is what’s real for us, so you can either get on that bandwagon or not,” she says. “I’ll tell you what, it’s too hard to be in a pretend marriage. Life’s too short for that one.”

Agreed! Let it go already!

Source, Bauer-Griffin

What in the world is Fergie wearing?

Pictured: Will Smith and wife Jada with their children Willow and Jaden, Ben Stiller and wife Christine Taylor, David Schwimmer and girlfriend Zoe Buckman,  Fergie and Toni Braxton, Chris Rock and his daughter, Debi Mazar with husband Gabriele Corcos and thier children Evelyn Giulia.

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I need to read this book!  I have had it for a couple months, but I’m so behind on all my books, I haven’t gotten to it yet!  I keep picking up books that I want to read, and I have so many of them “to read” now, I feel like I’ll never reach the end!  I’m currently reading “Friday Night Knitting Club” (which makes me want to join a knitting club, btw) and next I’m going to read “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle”.  I’m DYING to read it. I bought it several months ago, then Oprah picked it as her book – for her book club.  She had the author on the show, and now I’m even more stoked to read it.

Here is the official site for “The Secret Life of Bees”.

Anyway, back to the post at hand.  Here are the celebrities at last night’s premiere of “The Secret Life of Bees”.  Stars include Jada Pinkett Smith (Executive Producer) and Will Smith, Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson (check out the closeup on her ring!) & Nia Long.

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