Haiti Relief: Tweet House Sets Up Shop At Sundance
Posted on Jan 18, 2010 @ 06:30PM - Add a comment
Telethons are so 2009. The Celebrity Tweetup for Haiti, a cause in which celebs rally their Twitter followers to make donations to earthquake relief efforts, is inviting everyone to visit their station, the Tweet House, in Park City, Utah during this month’s 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of this crisis," LeVar Burton (Reading Rainbow, Star Trek: The Next Generation) who is co-hosting the Tweet House, told RadarOnline.com exclusively. "I know from experience that members of the entertainment community can be counted on at times like this, and my partners and I are dedicated to doing what we can".
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW: Hero's Star Jimmy Jean-Louis Heads To Haiti: "I Need To Be With Them"
Posted on Jan 16, 2010 @ 09:25AM - 5 comments
Haitian born actor Jimmy Jean-Louis revealed to RadarOnline.com why he has decided to go to his earthquake damaged home. “It is important for me to go there and support not just my family but also the community,” he said in an exclusive interview. He spoke about the current dire situation: “The disaster just killed the island because everything was in Port-Au-Prince. People would come from all over the island from Port-Au-Prince, so if Port-Au-Prince disappears, the island disappears.”
Jean-Louis described his feelings of seeing the tragedy unfold in his home country, Haiti. “When I started to see the pictures that’s when I freaked out, because one of the first images that I saw was of the palace, the presidential palace and that’s a strong block of structure. If that goes down then everything else is probably down.”
VIDEO: Heroes Star, "There Is Nothing Left To Live For" In Haiti
He will be sending updates and blogs from Haiti to RadarOnline.com about his journey to the devastated area. “It’s difficult to know what you’re going to feel when you’re going to see hundreds of thousands of people who will end up dying in a city that is completely destroyed. We’ll see what kind of affect it will have on me when I get there.
Jean-Louis, a star on the television show Heroes, explained why he is making the trip. “I need to go down there, I need to at least be with them, touch them, speak to them, feel them just so I can give them a bit of strength just to keep living.”
The reunion with his family is going to be filled with sorrow too. “I’m going to be crossing dead people everywhere,” Jean-Louis said.
“It is important for me to go there and support not just my family, but also the community.”
Jean-Louis urges you to do your part to help. Please make donations to the Red Cross either on-line or via phone text "HAITI" TO 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross' efforts there and/or online to Hollywood Unites For Haiti
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Heroes Star Says His Dad In Haiti Cried "There's Nothing Left To Live For"
Posted on Jan 15, 2010 @ 05:32PM - 1 comment
Jimmy Jean-Louis spoke to RadarOnline.com exclusively about his upcoming trip back to his native Haiti where he will be reunited with his family. Speaking candidly about the devastation there, he opened up about what he expects to experience and the trials his family and countrymen are facing.
Watch the Video For the Full Interview
“My dad was crying for the past few days because he lost something that he’d worked for his whole life which was his house and that is something that he started more than 40 years ago building one room after another one after another one," the actor said. "When he learned that the house was down he said to himself there’s nothing else left to live for. He has his kids and his family but for him that was one thing that really meant a lot to him.... That was very difficult for him to digest.”
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Haitian Heroes Actor Jimmy Jean-Louis Reunited With Mom
Jean-Louis has been unable to sleep for the past three days and though he looks forward to going home and helping his family, he knows that the tragedy he will see first-hand will be unlike anything he's ever experienced.
"It is difficult to know you are going to see hundreds of thousands of people who will end up dying and a city that is completely destroyed. We’ll see what kind of affect it will have on me when I get there."
Jean-Louis will be sending exclusive updates and blogs from Haiti to RadarOnline.com about his journey home and his family and country's fight to recover.
Jean-Louis urges you to do your part to help. Please make donations to the Red Cross either on-line or via phone: text "HAITI" TO 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross' efforts there and/or online to Hollywood Unites For Haiti.
