Several celebrities attended the dinner including Maria Bello, Odette Yusman, Rose McGowan, Rachel Bilson, James Van Der Beek, Dave Annable and Balthazar Getty. The dinner featured Maestro Dobel Tequila, which was used for the toast, and raised money and awareness for GiveLove. GiveLove’s goal is to “rebuild communities, homes and livelihoods for displaced Haitian earthquake survivors.”

Van Der Beek, Annable and Getty all wore a special H.E.L.P. bracelet designed and made by artisans in Haiti. The proceeds from the sale of the bracelets will go to GiveLove and Haiti relief efforts. To purchase a bracelet, visit www.BlanketAmerica.com.

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100521005963&newsLang=en         ]]> http://patricia-arquette.com/2010/05/patricia-to-visit-students-helping-to-rebuild-haiti/feed/ 2 http://patricia-arquette.com/2010/05/patricia-attends-white-house-correspondents-dinner/ http://patricia-arquette.com/2010/05/patricia-attends-white-house-correspondents-dinner/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 17:05:41 +0000 Mediumfan http://patricia-arquette.com/?p=203 Patricia Arquette has been extremely busy the last couple of weeks promoting both her television show and her charity project for Haiti. As part of her efforts to spread the word, she was in Washington, DC recently where she attended the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which was also attended by many other celebrities, as well as President Obama.

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PATRICIA ARQUETTE, the star of “Medium,” said she was going through heaping stacks of papers. She has four siblings, all performers. A documentary about her sibling Alexis’ gender transition, “Alexis Arquette: She’s My Brother,” was released last year. Her daughter Harlow, with her husband, actor Thomas Jane, is 5.

What have you been up to? Is that too vague?
I’ve been really busy since the strike. I’m working on this 12-year-long project with Richard Linklater. We shoot a week a year. I had actually been planning for a year to go to a very dear friend’s wedding in India so I went for an extra week to Egypt. It’s always been a big dream of mine. . .
It was really incredible. Even overrun with tourists and the craziness. I found myself weeping in front of the Sphinx.

How hippie-dippy are you in real life?
You mean, like, spiritual? I think I probably more tend to be hippie-dippier than most people, because I grew up in a hippie commune for two years. So I have a different perception — the place I grew up in wasn’t free drugs, free sex — it was married people with families. [Interrupting herself] What the hell is going on here? Part of my wall is peeling off!
My parents were creatures of the ’40s and they were supposed to be married in their same religion, and my mom was supposed to go to school to find someone to marry. But they were interested in the way other people thought, and in other cultures. . . . So I think I’m a little more open-minded than the average person.

And yet the fears that people had for our generation, who grew up in this fashion, didn’t come to pass. Our lives aren’t insane and reckless.
No, not in general. Unless you get strung out on drugs or something. But there’s still people waging that same battle. What if gay people get married? Oh, it’s going to destroy the world! Somehow that’s terrifying to them. When I was born, in ’68, it was during the civil rights movement. It wasn’t, you know, a standard way we live today.
I think we’ll look back on the way that homosexuals are dealt with in our culture today, that it was almost barbaric and bizarre that we were so backwards-thinking. If that makes me hippie-dippy then sign me up!

So! You came into a new sister!
Oh, Alexis, yeah! Alexis is amazing. It’s been amazing growing up with Alexis. It hasn’t been all easy. It’s been quite a soul-searching journey for everybody. . . . I remember Alexis growing up, and we’d be in school in kindergarten, and they’d say, “Get in line, boys here, girls here.” Alexis would always get in the girls’ line. And I remember Alexis getting dressed in drag at 4. And he was so effeminate, they all started calling Alexis “fag” and “queer” and so on. And of course I started fighting people.
Alexis thought: “That must be what it is . . .” only to come and realize later, “That’s not what’s different about me, it’s not that I’m a gay man. It’s that I’m in the wrong body: I am a woman.”
I had all the questions at first: Do you love yourself? Is it something that you want to change about the way you look? I get concerned when anybody I love wants to do any change to the way they look — where’s this coming from and why?
She was like, “What difference does it make what container we’re in? Am I who I am because I’m a woman? Or does it matter? Am I who I am regardless of whether I’m a woman or a man? My package was born with blue eyes — my package has a penis, or a vagina. Is that what it’s about?”

Wow.
You have to imagine you’re wearing a costume, or some kind of outfit that indicates who you are all the time. And everyone responds to that and you can never take that costume off. . . . Accepting as I am, I didn’t really understand and I can’t say I really do understand it. But I did feel a sadness. Like, there’s a loss. Am I going to lose my brother? I have memories of growing up: little faces we made, getting dressed up for Halloween.

Were there ways in which this called things into question about your identity?
Yes, I always imagined myself to be a very open-minded person. So when I was feeling a level of judgment . . . I really had to think about myself. I think it’s an important question to ask in a society that is so much about the way you look. People take such extreme measures about the way you look.

And for the 5-year-olds in the family, it’s probably not a big deal at all.
They love Alexis because they know who Alexis is. They don’t like people because of the way they look — they like people because of who they are. My daughter is very into princesses and she’s very ultra-femme. I was not like that! So she just adores Alexis. . . . And Alexis came over once with not as much makeup on. And Harlow said, “I don’t want that, I want you to have more makeup on! Next time have more.”

She is girly!
People are like, “Oh it’s so weird.” And people say, like, “God what do you guys do for holidays, it must be so weird!” My reaction inside is: It must be so weird for you! That you grew up in a family that wouldn’t be loving and accepting. That’s the sad thing. So don’t worry about how weird things are for us, because I’m worried about how weird things are for you. You know what I’m saying? Because that sounds like a nightmare.

On Thanksgiving in Los Angeles, it is a pretty good bet that you will find Jennifer Love Hewitt, the star of “The Ghost Whisperer”, at a mission helping out with serving a turkey dinner to those in need.  The gracious star is also taking the lead on another worthwhile project according to a press release.  She and a whole bunch of Hollywood types are banding together to raise awareness and try to put an end to puppy mills.

The Humane Society of the United States has issued a press release that notes that these stars are not putting puppy mill cruelty on their holiday gift list.  Besides Jennifer Love Hewitt, Kelly Ripa and Nathan Lane are pitching in as well.

Also others from Hollywood like Molly Shannon, and Patricia Arquette, are among the stars supporting efforts by The Humane Society of the United States to stop puppy mills and encouraging people to take part in Puppy Mill Action Week, Nov. 25 to Dec. 1.

The campaign was designed by The HSUS to educate the public about the cruelties of puppy mills during the height of holiday shopping season, and to inform consumers that they CAN put an end to puppy mills by refusing to buy a dog from a pet store or over the Internet, both of which largely sell dogs from mills. 

Wayne Pacelle, the President and CEO of The HSUS said, “The puppy mill business does harm to countless dogs, and we are grateful that these compassionate celebrities are lending their voices and shining a spotlight on this cruelty.” 

Universal Studios Hollywood kicks off its Halloween Horror Nights with the 5th Annual “Eyegore” Awards “Scaremony” (you gotta love the puns and their quotation marks) on Friday, October 5th. The event will honor stars from the world of horror for imagining the unimaginable and for unleashing their creative sprits in the field of horror to bring our most indelible and terrifying moments to life.

Those receiving kudos this year include genre legend Roger Corman, Shawnee Smith (of the Saw films), Patricia Arquette (“Medium”), Don Mancini (creator of the Child’s Play series), Corey Feldman (The Lost Boys 2: The Tribe), Sherri Moon Zombie (Halloween) and Michael Berryman (the original The Hills Have Eyes) who will also serve as the night’s master of ceremonies. The kick-off is not available to the public, but the park’s Horror Nights will most certainly be!