Variety. She most recently appeared in Locked Down (2021), The Last Thing He Wanted (2020) and Serenity (2019) and The Hustle (2019).
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Sarah McLachlan’s SPCA ad about the plight of animals is the stuff of legend and countless tears. Now, Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Effort ad agency is teaming up with checkout tech company Bolt for a new ad. In the spot, McLachlan cheekily pays homage to the original PSA, which raised over $30 million for the animal welfare group.
Unlike the original SPCA ad, the Bolt ad is “a very unimportant message about online shopping from Sarah McLachlan,” Maximum Effort jokes.
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McLachlan’s new ad is raising awareness for the 70 per cent of online shopping carts that are abandoned in the checkout process. McLachlan explains Bolt’s one-click checkout technology rescues those abandoned carts by making the sales process simple, forgoing the usual assortment of forms required for purchases.
But it’s not all jokes: Bolt has made a $50,000 donation to the ASPCA and has launched Bolt.com/carts, where animal lovers can buy discounted “Rescue Cart“ merchandise, including pet toys and T-shirts. Every item is under a dollar with discount code “ABANDONEDCARTS”. For each item purchased, Bolt will donate $10 to the ASPCA, up to an additional $50,000.
If you need a tear-jerking reminder, check out McLachlan’s original SPCA ad below.
Variety. She most recently appeared in Locked Down (2021), The Last Thing He Wanted (2020) and Serenity (2019) and The Hustle (2019).
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had their pet name questioned by Romanian Twitter users when they announced the name for their new addition.The couple called their dog Pula, after the currency in Botswana, the country in Africa where Harry took Meghan on their first few dates. However, around the world the word has many other meanings and in Romania, Pula is a slang term for a penis.The amusing double meaning was pointed out by some Twitter users who felt some research ought to have gone in naming the Royal pet. One tweeted Prince Harry, 37 and Meghan, 40, "should have Googled their dog's rude name".
Zara and Mike Tindall have been celebrating Valentine's Day in Italy.The former rugby player, 43, posted a sweet snap of the couple on Instagram as they enjoyed a romantic dinner ahead of the Six Nations match between England and Italy on Sunday 13 February. Mike, who recently shared rare details about the royal family's WhatsApp group, was in Rome for work.
There is a deep sadness and mourning a woman goes through when she is told she has little or no chance to have her own children. In the meantime, friends that never wanted kids get pregnant with the blink of an eye, celebrities get pregnant at the age of 50, people who don’t even want kids get pregnant — in short, it feels like everyone can get pregnant but you. This kind of sadness can keep you up at night, crying and angry at God, wondering what you did wrong in life to deserve this.
Tom Holland hangs out with director Francesco Totti for an interview in Rome, Italy on Thursday afternoon (February 10).
Tom Holland looks so handsome while stepping out for an Uncharted photo call!
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAward winning film director and historian Mark Cousins (“The Story of Film: A New Generation”) is at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios making a doc titled “March on Rome” that will explore the roots of fascism by analyzing films, photographs, and other documents found in Italian archives.The high-profile documentary — pegged to the centennial of the infamous late October 1922 insurrection by which Benito Mussolini came to power in Italy — will take its cue from the Fascist propaganda film “A Noi” by director Umberto Paradisi, produced in 1923 as an official Fascist party document celebrating the March on Rome.Italian writer and director Tony Saccucci (“The Duce’s Boxer”), who originated the project and did meticulous research for it, serves as a co-writer with Cousins. Saccuci cross-checked Paradisi’s film with other sources of the time to reveal details of the pic that provide a completely new take on the history of those dramatic days, according to the synopsis.
J. Kim Murphy The Roku Channel released a trailer on Wednesday morning for “Reno 911″ Defunded,” its upcoming revival series of the long-running “Reno 911!” sitcom.The trailer shows both new faces and old ones hard at work in the Reno Police Department.
EXCLUSIVE: Bernd Schlotterer’s German outfit Palatin Media is launching world sales on Richard Armitage thriller The Man From Rome. Moonstone Entertainment’s Etchie Stroh is serving as a sales consultant.
BUCHAREST, Romania -- Maksim Goldenshteyn recounts a story his grandmother once told him about how, as a 4-year-old child, she snuck out of a Jewish ghetto during World War II to retrieve her favorite dolls that had been left behind when her family was forcibly evicted from their home in occupied Soviet Ukraine.“She knew, even at that age, that because she had lighter hair and blue eyes, she could pass for a local Ukrainian girl,” said Goldenshteyn. “She put on a kerchief and slipped out of the ghetto.”It's one of the stories that Seattle native Goldenshteyn tells in his book, “ So They Remember,” which recounts — with a blend of intimate family memoir and historical research — the Holocaust in Transnistria, a territory in occupied southern Ukraine that was controlled by Romania, a close ally to Nazi Germany for most of the war.In that territory, where around 150 camps and ghettos operated, there played out a lesser-known but equally sinister chapter of the Holocaust, where hundreds of thousands of Jews were brutalized, exploited, and murdered.