Salma Hayek Wet-Nurses in Africa

Actress Salma Hayek nursed a starving baby in front of an ABC News crew while on a trip to Sierra Leone in support of a tetanus vaccination project. She did this, she told the camera crew, in compassion for a starving child, but also to help lift a breastfeeding stigma in Africa, where men think that women cannot have sex while still nursing. "So the husbands, of course, of these women are really encouraging them to stop," Hayek said.

The mother of this baby boy is an obvious victim of this stigma. Hayek intervened with her emergency nursing because the mother simply had no milk. While the child, who was born the same day as Hayek's own daughter, will need a lot more nursing to make it safely out of infancy, Hayek's gesture could help relieve the African situation.

For those in the United States, Hayek has crossed many stigma lines as well. Cross-nursing or wet-nursing, in which one woman occasionally suckles another's baby, has long been considered a taboo in America. The later even denotes classism. Despite the taboo, cross-nursing has been on the rise. Nadya Suleman, mother of the octuplets, has been receiving breast milk donations to help feed her newborns.

Experts say that the cross-nursing taboo has nothing to do with class, but the safety of the mother and child. Even organizations that support sharing of breast milk do so conditionally, through the intermediary breast-pump. The Human Milk Banking Association of North America, which screens and distributes donated milk to hospitals across the U.S. and Canada, requires that its milk be pasteurized before distribution. The child Hayek nursed was reportedly healthy, and Hayek is reported to show no signs of illness.

No matter the outcome of Hayek's actions, the video has become an overnight internet sensation, reaching record views on YouTube. EW.com gave the clip its "biggest eyebrow-raiser" of the day award.

Sigourney Weaver Performs Live Basic Instinct Show

There is nothing like a bunch of women sitting around gossiping. But often it's not what they say but what they do that is more interesting. If you missed The View on ABC today you did yourself a favor. You will sleep well tonight.

You'd hope a woman of 59 would have the whole 'class' thing down by now but Sigourney Weaver's upskirt flash on live TV startled everyone who had their eyes open. I may have nightmares just thinking about it. I'm certain this is the View's plan in attempting to force men not to tune in during the day.

The incident occurred when Sigourney went for a couch hug with Joy Behar the show's resident angry woman - outlasting Rosie O'Donnell in the shows dual angry woman phase. So offering Joy a little love made perfect sense as angry women need love too. It seems that Sigourney wanted to make the most of the moment.

I'll try not to close my eyes tonight when I sleep. Unfortunately now you may have a hard time sleeping tonight too.

Diane Sawyer Lowers the Bar on Journalism!

This montage is priceless! ABC's shrill and haughty Diane Sawyer showed up to work today at ABC drunk as a skunk! What's better is the dumb azzes at ABC put her on the air! She didn't sober up throughout the telecast.

Sing it with me!

What do you do with a drunken Sawyer?
What do you do with a drunken Sawyer?
What do you do with a drunken Sawyer --Early in the morning!

Her description of the children as "some very teeny teeny citizens..." is to die for!


This couldn't have been any better if someone asked her what she thought of the Roman Empire? and she said.. 'Fug it' She was that drunk!

One more time from Diane.... "You wook absowootly bwootiful!"

Have a Date? Can't Cook? Let "The Bachelor" Help!

You’re a single guy and you’ve just met a great girl. So far, so good.

You take her out a few times… For drinks, dinner, a movie… Things are going really well and now you’d like to “seal the deal”, so you invite her over to your place for a romantic dinner. But the problem is, you can’t cook to save your life. And you may not be a genius, but you’re smart enough to know that pouring a can of tomato sauce over some pasta isn’t going to impress the pants (or dress) off anyone.
Good news.

“Cooking To Get Lucky” is a half hour cooking show that will serve as your step by step guide through the entire romantic evening…for everything but the sex. Planning a menu, shopping, cooking, setting the table, serving the meal, flowers, candles, and even a few extra touches to make your date feel so special, she’ll sneak off to text her friends that you’re awesome and they shouldn’t wait up.

And the best part is, it’s totally easy. Each of the dinner plans is specially designed to be incredibly fast and easy to prepare, while looking unbelievably impressive.

Hosting is Eden Riegel, Emmy Award winning actress from “All My Children” and “American Pie” and Bob Guiney from “The Bachelor”. In each episode, they’ll check out a video plea from a desperate viewer explaining the desperation of his situation. The date’s a vegetarian, or really loves fish, or thinks Greek food is really sexy.

Eden knows what it takes to impress a hot chick, because she is a hot chick. But she’s also an amazing cook. Bob’s bachelor days are legendary (and were broadcast coast to coast). They’ll use their own experiences to figure out the guy’s optimum approach to the perfect night, then Eden will choose the easiest, tastiest, coolest looking recipes she can think of, take Bob to the kitchen and show him (and us) how to make everything - from appetizer to dessert. No fancy ingredients, no weird pots or pans, no directions that require a mastery of a foreign language to understand. And seriously, if Bob can do it ANYONE can.


Introduced to America on ABC's hugely popular hit The Bachelor, America's favorite "Ex-Bachelor" Bob Guiney has been in our living rooms ever since.

Bob is the host of all of ABC's comedic interstitial programming, while maintaining the spot as the primary field correspondent for daytime chatfest, The View. He also serves as co-host of WE's 3 Men & a Chick Flick, as well as co-hosting Bravo's Battle of the Network Stars, ABC Super Bowl coverage and countless specials for E! and TV Guide Channel. Bob has a recurring guest spot on Hollywood Residential on Starz and has hosted weekly makeover series Trick My Trucker on CMT and Date My House on TLC.

While enjoying the opportunities he has had with television, Bob still plays with his longtime band Fat Amy, and also performs with his celebrity Band, "Band from TV, which includes of Heroes' Greg Grunberg, Desperate Housewives' James Denton, Hugh Laurie of House, and Bonnie Somerville of Cashmere Mafia. Proceeds from the bad go to the members’ respective charities. In addition, they also contributed two tracks for the "House, MD: Season 3" Soundtrack.

Bob and his wife of 3 years, actress Rebecca Budig (All My Children, Out of Practice), currently split time together between New York and Los Angeles.


In 2005, Eden Riegel received a Daytime Emmy Award for her work as Susan Lucci’s daughter, Bianca Montgomery on ABC’s All My Children. She became a part of television history when she participated in Daytime's first lesbian kiss and her sensitive portrayal of a gay heroine won AMC four consecutive GLAAD Awards for Outstanding Daytime Drama. Her work also garnered Eden two Soap Opera Digest Awards, four Emmy Nominations, and GLAAD’S first ever “Out Image Of The Year” Award. Other television appearances include Law and Order, American Dreams, and New York Undercover. She has a memorable role in Universal’s American Pie.

Eden made her Broadway debut at age seven as Young Cosette in Les Misérables. Other theater credits include Broadway’s Will Rogers Follies, Nine Armenians at the Manhattan Theater Club, the world premiere of Arthur Laurents’ My Good Name at the Bay Street Theater and the title roles in Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Reagle Players and opposite Meredith Baxter and Jo Beth Williams in Agnes of God at Pasadena’s Boston Court Theater. Eden attended Harvard University as an undergraduate concentrating in Social Studies.

Recently, Eden completed production on the new Jack Black comedy, Year One, directed by Harold Ramis, produced by Judd Apatow and starring alongside Michael Cera and Paul Rudd.

Scrubs moving to ABC

Perez Hilton has posted a MySpace bulletin from 'Scrubs' star Zach Braff, that confirms the show will be moving from NBC to ABC, a move Variety called "one of the worst-kept secrets in town."

"Many of you have been understandably confused by the Fairy Tale episode of Scrubs serving as the series finale. It was not. I was not allowed to say it until today, but Scrubs will be moving to ABC for its final season," Braff confirmed on MySpace. "We are currently filming the 8th and final season. The true finale of the show will air on ABC in the fall. NBC merely promoted the Fairy Tale episode as the finale, as it was the last episode they owned."

The offbeat comedy has aired on NBC since 2001. It stars Braff, Sarah Chalke and Donald Faison. ABC has not yet announced when it plans to air it.

Taylor Dayne News!

Taylor Dayne’s latest single “Crash” featured
on the ABC Spring promos

FANS NOW HAVE A CHANCE TO SUBMIT THEIR IDEAS FOR
THE CONCEPT OF THE “CRASH” VIDEO

LOS ANGELES, CA- Taylor Dayne’s highly anticipated album, “Satisfied,” was released on February 5th and just over two weeks after its arrival, “Crash” has been selected as the featured song in ABC’s spring promo campaign. The song is heard playing over highlights of the network’s hottest shows, placing Taylor’s powerful voice over images of Grey’s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Ugly Betty, and Oprah Winfrey’s The Big Give, among other shows. To create the perfect blend for its promos, ABC has chosen a unique voice that is recognized by its audience and millions across the world. The spot premiered during the 2008 Academy Awards broadcast, and will run through mid-March.

Additionally, Taylor has invited her loyal fans to submit their ideas for the concept of the forthcoming “Crash” video. This is an opportunity for fans to show what this song means to them through a video that could be seen by millions. Fans can submit their video treatment or ideas to video@taylordayne.com and it could become the brand new "Crash" video!

Furthermore, fans can create their own video for the song, post it on YouTube, and send the link to Taylor. The creator of the best video will receive a phone call from Taylor and will have the opportunity to personally share their idea with her. Fans can hear the song and copy the “Crash” lyrics at www.myspace.com/taylordayne.

Click here to read PCM's interview with the lovely Miss Taylor Dayne!

Lost in 8 minutes 15 seconds!

If you have been living in the caves and not watched ABC's hit show Lost, you don't know what you are missing. This clever video can bring you up to speed with what has been going on with our castways in 8 minutes 15 seconds.




Get ready, Season 4 premieres on Jan 31st on ABC