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This will be the first time the press and industry affiliates will have an opportunity to preview the exclusive line before it premieres during the JCK trade show in Las Vegas, June 3rd-June 6th. Joining Dawson as she launches Love Universe are Supermodel Linda Vojtova and iconic Jewelry Designer Genevieve Jones, who will debut their Signature Love Universe Collections at the cocktail party.

The SAG Awards® nominations in five film and eight television categories will be revealed on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010 in the SilverScreen Theater at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. The announcement will be telecast live on TNT and webcast live on tnt.tv and tbs.com at 9 a.m. (ET) / 6 a.m. (PT). Nominations for the SAG Honors for film and television stunt ensembles will also be announced on Dec. 16 by JoBeth Williams and SAG Awards Committee Vice Chair Daryl Anderson, webcast live at 8:50 a.m. (ET) / 5:50 a.m. (PT) on tnt.tv and tbs.com.

One of the awards season’s premier events, the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be simulcast live coast to-coast on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011, at 8 p.m. (ET), 7 p.m. (CT), 6 p.m. (MT) and 5 p.m. (PT) from the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles. An encore presentation will air on TNT at 10 p.m. (ET), 9 p.m. (CT), 8 p.m. (MT) and 7 p.m. (PT). The ceremony will also be telecast internationally.

Rosario Dawson has been a critically-acclaimed actress since her debut in the film “Kids” when she was just 14 years old. She has consistently worked with top directors and actors such as Spike Lee in “He Got Game” and “25th Hour” opposite Edward Norton; director Robert Rodriguez in “Sin City;” “Seven Pounds” opposite Will Smith. She had a star-making turn with her depiction of iconic character Mimi Marquez in the film adaptation of “Rent.” She will next be seen starring in the Sony summer comedy “Zookeeper” for Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions, which opens July 8, 2011.

In addition to starring Boston detective Jane Rizzoli on top-rated TNT series “Rizzoli & Isles,” Angie Harmon is taking on an entirely new role in which she’ll debut nominations morning: that of social network ambassador for the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Through posts on Twitter and Facebook, Harmon will serve as the online face for the awards, giving viewers unprecedented access to behind-the-scenes moments from the red carpet and during the show. Throughout the weeks leading up to the SAG Awards, she’ll be posting inside information about presenters, fashion, preparing for the big night and more. Harmon’s social-network messages will go out simultaneously via TNT, TBS, SAG and PEOPLE Magazine Twitter and Facebook outlets. Harmon’s SAG Awards® history includes four consecutive Actor® nominations as a member of the “Law & Order” ensemble from 1999 to 2002.

The 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be produced by Jeff Margolis Productions in association with Screen Actors Guild Awards®, LLC. For more information about the SAG Awards, SAG, TNT and TBS, visit sagawards.org/about.

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The show will recognize four teens for their philanthropic leadership in their respective communities. Each honoree recently was treated to a surprise visit from host and executive producer Nick Cannon and will receive a grant from the Entertainment Industry Foundation.

The winners and matched celebs:

Herold Charles, 18, of Miami, moved to Haiti five years ago, and after last year’s devastating earthquake, he dedicated his time to help 25 families in the U.S. locate their loved ones. His match: Jean, who provides scholarships to Haitian children through his Yéle Haiti Foundation.

Joshua Hall, 17, of New York, became an advocate to eradicate child slavery. He’s been paired with Kutcher, who started the DNA Foundation to raise awareness about child sex slavery.

Jordan Somer, 16, of Papillion, Neb., created Miss Amazing, a pageant for girls and women aged 5 to 35 with physical and mental disabilities. Her match: Dawson, who’s as a board member of V-Day, a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls.

Lauren Huichan, 18, of Albuquerque, N.M., who was a troubled foster kid for years before getting her life together. She’s now the president of the youth advocate group Adelante and works with the New Mexico foster care system. She’s been paired with Carey, who works with the Fresh Air Fund, which helps disadvantaged urban youth.

The 2010 Halo Awards air Friday, Dec. 10 at 8/7c, on TeenNick.

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If “great” implies “large,” he was wrong: We live in a golden age of poetry in which there is hardly any audience for it. And when big crowds do gather for poetry, the results are not always pretty.

Saturday night’s “Brave New Voices 2010″ on HBO is a one-hour follow-up to last year’s seven-part series “Russell Simmons Presents Brave New Voices,” which chronicled the efforts of contestants in the 2008 National Youth Poetry Slam. “Brave New Voices 2010″ skips the reality-show lead-up of the original series and jumps straight to the climax: the grand slam finals that took place this summer in Los Angeles with teams from New York, Denver, Albuquerque and the Bay Area.

The show, co-hosted by Common and Rosario Dawson, is a slightly awkward mix of showbiz glitz and adolescent literary angst. But then again, slam poetry has always occupied an unusual position, having more in common with rap music and stand-up comedy than with literature. For the most part, it’s loud, fast and emotionally simple. It emphasizes the performance over the text, and seeks the strongest possible audience reaction, often at the expense of subtlety and complexity. It’s sometimes delivered so quickly that you can’t even make out the actual words, which doesn’t really matter because it isn’t the words so much as the feeling conveyed that signals the poem’s success.

We know what we are in for, then, when Dawson immediately asks the crowd, “You all ready to cry tonight?” And the answer is yes! Many in the audience — and many of the poets — are ready to cry, and to laugh, and to jump out of their chairs, and to loudly let it be known when they like what they hear. The illusionist Penn Jillette, who serves as one of the judges, observes that slam poetry blurs the distinction between liking a poem because it’s well written and liking a poem because you agree with its message. And the messages of these poems are, of course, uniformly unobjectionable: There should be peace; human beings should stop destroying the planet; blood relatives should love one another; sexism and racism are bad. Who could possibly demur?

But by the same token, who could possibly get excited about such sentiments? Well, this auditorium full of teenagers could. But viewers will hear some flat lines, some predictable lines and, well, some memorably awful lines, such as “Music is magic and magic music” or “You were so young then, mischievously playing in my puddles” or — brace yourself — “See their songs suckle on society like the stained lips of rape children to their wavering mother’s breast.”

Still, these young poets have worked hard — more on their delivery than on their literary skills, perhaps, but the performances are energetic, heartfelt and frequently impressive. And even if the poetry is not, for the most part, very good, it is encouraging to see several hundred young people gathered to hear and appreciate poetry of any quality.

But it’s impossible to watch “Brave New Voices 2010″ without mixed feelings. This is particularly true near the end, when the night’s highest scores are bestowed on a young woman who is so eager to start crying that she does so before she begins reading her piece — indeed, her face is streaked with tears even before she makes it onto the stage.

Dawson does all she can to enforce the feel-good atmosphere, at one point describing the gathering as a “sea of poets, who are just loving each other and supporting each other.” As the evening moves along, she encourages higher and higher scores from the judges, more than once making comments like “We got a garbage 8.9 — we’re going to throw that out.” She shakes her head disdainfully at any judge who dares to deliver anything less than an out-and-out rave.

But viewers who persevere will see something rather wonderful. The Denver team, in the evening’s final performance, changes the emotional tone of the evening radically by delivering a poem called “Score,” which directly confronts the problem of insisting that every poem be recognized as a masterpiece. “I dare you to give this poem a 7,” they shout at the judges. “I would rather have your respect than your applause.” And to the audience: “If you weren’t cheering so loud then you would hear the point behind the poetry.”

At that moment, for the first time all evening, I felt like jumping out of my chair and cheering.

Brave New Voices 2010 (one hour) airs Saturday at 11 p.m. on HBO.

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