Carter special envoy for Year of the Dolphin
Nick Carter of the pop band Backstreet Boys has been appointed as a U.N. special ambassador of the Year of the Dolphin.
“I was shocked. And happy at the exact same time because I really felt like it was an honor,” he told AP Radio News on Thursday.
The Year of the Dolphin campaign is aimed at raising awareness of dolphins in the wild, the threats they face to their survival and actions that could help their wild conservation.
Carter, who starred on the E! Entertainment reality show “House of Carters” with his siblings, said he's still a student of the campaign.
“The issues involved with the dolphins are things that I am learning,” the 27-year-old singer said. “I don't want to be this person to come across and say, `Why, I know what's going on' and shove it down people's throats. (Because) I don't know everything.”
Carter said he'll expand on the same feelings he expressed in a song he wrote called “Believe” in order to write a new anthem about the plight of dolphins.
“I am probably going to go back to the drawing board and try to outdo myself and write an even better song,” Carter said.
Lopez faces legal action in idea-theft case
Lawyers fighting over whether Jennifer Lopez knows anything about the origination of a television series about Miami's modeling and nightclub scene may hear from the actress within weeks, though one lawyer promised: “I will not ask for her autograph.”
U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry Pitman has ordered the actress to submit to a deposition by June 11 to answer questions posed in a lawsuit brought last year by a television writer who says the actress, UPN and CBS Television stole his idea and created “South Beach.”
Writer Jack Bunick claimed in a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that the television series that debuted in January 2006 was too similar to a plot he described in 1999 for a pilot episode of a show that would have been called “South Beach Miami.”
Chavez government to finance Glover film
Venezuela's Congress says it has approved financing for two films by actor Danny Glover, a close supporter of President Hugo Chavez.
The lawmaking body, which is closely allied with Chavez, said in a statement on its Web site that it approved $20 million for two Glover productions.
They include “The General in His Labyrinth,” which deals with the life of South American liberator Simon Bolivar.
The other is “Toussaint,” which the statement said Glover plans to direct documenting the life of Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture.
- From wire reports
“I was shocked. And happy at the exact same time because I really felt like it was an honor,” he told AP Radio News on Thursday.
The Year of the Dolphin campaign is aimed at raising awareness of dolphins in the wild, the threats they face to their survival and actions that could help their wild conservation.
Carter, who starred on the E! Entertainment reality show “House of Carters” with his siblings, said he's still a student of the campaign.
“The issues involved with the dolphins are things that I am learning,” the 27-year-old singer said. “I don't want to be this person to come across and say, `Why, I know what's going on' and shove it down people's throats. (Because) I don't know everything.”
Carter said he'll expand on the same feelings he expressed in a song he wrote called “Believe” in order to write a new anthem about the plight of dolphins.
“I am probably going to go back to the drawing board and try to outdo myself and write an even better song,” Carter said.
Lopez faces legal action in idea-theft case
Lawyers fighting over whether Jennifer Lopez knows anything about the origination of a television series about Miami's modeling and nightclub scene may hear from the actress within weeks, though one lawyer promised: “I will not ask for her autograph.”
U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry Pitman has ordered the actress to submit to a deposition by June 11 to answer questions posed in a lawsuit brought last year by a television writer who says the actress, UPN and CBS Television stole his idea and created “South Beach.”
Writer Jack Bunick claimed in a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that the television series that debuted in January 2006 was too similar to a plot he described in 1999 for a pilot episode of a show that would have been called “South Beach Miami.”
Chavez government to finance Glover film
Venezuela's Congress says it has approved financing for two films by actor Danny Glover, a close supporter of President Hugo Chavez.
The lawmaking body, which is closely allied with Chavez, said in a statement on its Web site that it approved $20 million for two Glover productions.
They include “The General in His Labyrinth,” which deals with the life of South American liberator Simon Bolivar.
The other is “Toussaint,” which the statement said Glover plans to direct documenting the life of Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture.
- From wire reports
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