Look To The Stars News: Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis Joins Celebrity Platform For Healthier Lifestyles

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:35:00 +0000

GoodChime!, a new consumer social platform dedicated to leveraging the power of social networking for healthy lifestyles, launched its platform today to bring celebrities and individuals together for health and wellness.

GoodChime!‘s inaugural stars includes a "Who’s Who" of athletes seeking to do social good through social media, and include the L.A. Angels newest superstar, Albert Pujols, as well as tennis legend Andrea Jaeger, basketball great Isiah Thomas, award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis. GoodChime! will be announcing dozens of additional celebrity stars who have joined the social network site over the coming weeks.

Jennifer Aniston Narrates Charity Audio Book

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Earlier this year, Look To The Stars brought you the story of Jennifer Aniston’s newest charity project: narrating a children’s audio book. We can now reveal that the book will be released on October 24 – National Make A Difference Day.

The story – written by Nick Katsoris – is called Loukoumi’s Good Deeds, the third release in an ongoing series about doing nice things for other people. The stories feature Loukoumi the lamb and her friends Gus the Bear, Fistiki the Cat, Dean the Dog and Marika the Monkey – a group of characters that like doing good deeds. Among the actors voicing characters for ’Loukoumi’s Good Deeds’ are Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis, Gloria Gaynor and US news presenter Alexis Christoforous.

The actress has promised that $2 from every purchase of the audio book will go to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and to celebrate the release, the book’s author will hold a special reading of the book at the hospital on October 20.

Olympia Dukakis Supports Diabetes Initiative

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:30:00 +0000

Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis and her husband, actor Louis Zorich, have partnered with Novo Nordisk, a world leader in diabetes care, to urge at-risk adults 65 and older to get screened for diabetes. The educational program, called Ask.Screen.Know., launched today to encourage people enrolled in Medicare to ask their healthcare provider for a free diabetes screening and to know their blood sugar numbers and what actions to take.

Diabetes is an epidemic, and older adults are particularly affected. Approximately seven out of 10 adults age 65 and older have diabetes or pre-diabetes; and of those people with diabetes, almost half don’t know it. The good news is that with early detection and treatment, the serious health consequences of diabetes can be prevented or delayed.

Since 2005, Medicare has offered free diabetes screening services to those at-risk for diabetes; however, utilization has been low and many older adults are undiagnosed.

Jennifer Aniston Helps Out With Children's Charity Audio Book

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000

Jennifer Aniston is to narrate a new children’s book with her father for charity.

Along with John Aniston, the 40-year-old actress and star of Marley And Me will lend her voice to an audio CD version of Nick Katsoris’ Loukoumi’s Good Deeds, the third release in an ongoing series about doing nice things for other people.

“Jennifer was wonderful, they were so easy to work with and it was the first time they had done something together,” Katsoris told RadarOnline.com. “They recorded in L.A. last fall and she was just a joy to work with… All the proceeds go to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and Jennifer is a big fan of them.”

'Growing Up With Loukoumi' Author Grants 3 Dream Days

Fri, 16 May 2008 10:58:19 +0000

When children’s book author Nick Katsoris released his book Growing Up With Loukoumi he also launched a national contest where kids were given the chance to win a day in their dream career. Based on his award-winning children’s book and celebrity-narrated CD, the ‘Growing Up With Loukoumi Dream Day’ recipients have been named.

The book, which teaches children they can be anything when they grow up if they believe in themselves, held over national 200 Dream Day events at schools, libraries and bookstores where thousands of children entered the contest by drawing themselves in their dream career

The first winner is a 9-year-old girl from Long Island who wants to be a Mars Rover Engineer. Thanks to the contest, on May 25th she’ll visit NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA to witness the Phoenix spacecraft actually land on Mars, tour the facility and meet a Rover engineer.

Making Friends With 3 Needles

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:31:49 +0000

Award-winning independent film director & writer Thom Fitzgerald graciously took the time to share with Look to the Stars his thoughts about his new movie 3 Needles. The film tells three stories from the global AIDS crisis. Like a good friend, he helped me to see movies, storytelling, AIDS and myself differently — much as he hopes his movie 3 Needles will do for you.

The on-line promotion for the new film 3 Needles, written & directed by Thom Fitzgerald and starring Lucy Liu, Chloë Sevigny, Shawn Ashmore, Sandra Oh, Stockard Channing, Olympia Dukakis and Tanabadee Chokpikultong, is reminiscent of gathering ‘round the fireplace to socialize on a winter’s eve – with a few thousand of your friends.