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GBK, the luxury lifestyle gift lounge and special events company, along with BOP & Tiger Beat, the industrys leading teen entertainment magazines, honor the 2012 Kids Choice Awards Nominees and Presenters at their annual Gift Lounge. The gifting lounge will take place March 29th and 30th at the SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills from 11am 6pm. GBK, the recipient of multiple BizBashs Award for Best Gift Bag, will offer its exclusive list of invited celebrities, VIPs, and media an opportunity to enjoy an exciting environment with gifts, refreshments and a charitable focus. Known for their creative, cause-driven events, this years GBK, BOP & Tiger Beat Lounge will be a birthday bash supporting the American Cancer Society and cancer survivors everywhere. A variety of activities are planned for the event including a mobile animated flipbook studio station with staff that will allow guests to create their own custom animated video flipbooks to take home by Action Flipbooks, a candy buffet, birthday presents and an opportunity to sign a birthday card or tape a special message for patients at a local hospital. Master cake creator, Bread Basket Cake Company, prepared special birthday cupcake invitations for the celebrity and honored guests, and has teamed up with GBK to design a 14 foot Birthday Cake Press Wall! This wall will be an unforgettable centerpiece to the event and a fun photo opportunity for all.

An array of fun products and trendy gifts will fill the lounge and contribute to the birthday fun. MGA Entertainment, known for their award-winning brands such as Little Tikes®, Lalaloopsy, Bratz®, and Moxie Girls will be on site gifting their Bratz dolls one packed doll of choice and an invitation to receive the new Bratz True Hope dolls when they arrive in stores in June; Coby Electronics will be gifting their spunky new Attitudz earphones which match consumers ever-changing style and attitudes with eight fun colors and designs that reflect a range of personalities; Welchs® Fruit Snacks – taste delicious Welchs® Fruit Snacks, Juicefulls Juice-filled Fruit Snacks, Sun Maid® Milk Chocolate Raisins, My M&MS® Brand Chocolate Candies and more; and SPIN MASTER, a multi-category childrens entertainment company, will be onsite gifting their Appfinity AppBlaster! Using dual triggers, trigger-tap technology and augmented reality applications, the AppBlaster turns any environment into a virtual gaming experience and connects securely with your iPhone/iPod Touch.

Celebrity-favorite, RevitaLash ADVANCED, will be on site gifting their eyelash conditioner that lengthens and thickens eyelashes, Hair by RevitaLash and RevitaLash Mascara and Perfect Primer; Ematic, a superior technology company featuring groundbreaking innovations in portable media, is providing Tablet PCs and MP3 Video players; Toy State, an innovator and industry leader in the manufacture of licensed and highly-stylized lights and sound toy vehicles, is gifting DUB DJz custom vehicles with dual mixing decks; Mama Earth Rocks Publishing – Pinky the Star- motivational illustrated childrens book, Sweet Potato Mama Cookbook and Angels for Everyday Living; Moshi Monsters, providing gift packs including Bobble Bots, Moshi Monsters from Innovation First International, 6 Moshi plush from Spin Master and Moshi trading cards from Topps; imPRESS Press-On Manicure by Broadway Nails the revolutionary way to apply polish; and Sweet Dream Girlz, providing their naturally made face, body and hair products made especially for girls; clothing from American Apparel; jewelry from RockaBella Jewels; and artistic decals for iPhones, iPads and MAC computers by MacSlaps.

As always, giving charities an opportunity to share their cause and draw attention to the work they are doing is a major focus with GBK Gift Lounges. The GBK, BOP & Tiger Beat Gift Lounge will also support the following charities:

Dream Center For the past 17 years, The Dream Center has been combating the issues that afflict Los Angeles communities, rescuing people from poverty, homelessness, hunger and substance abuse, and it is now leading the fight against human trafficking by opening the nations largest shelter for victims of human trafficking. For more information about Dream Center, please visit dreamcenter.org.

Model Citizen Fund, LLC – a charity that fills backpacks with 150 emergency supply items for the homeless. For more information on Model Citizen Fund, please visit modelcitizenfund.com

The American Cancer Society – combines an unyielding passion with nearly a century of experience to save lives and end suffering from cancer. As a global grassroots force of more than three million volunteers, we fight for every birthday threatened by every cancer in every community. We save lives by helping people stay well by preventing cancer or detecting it early; helping people get well by being there for them during and after a cancer diagnosis; by finding cures through investment in groundbreaking discovery; and by fighting back by rallying lawmakers to pass laws to defeat cancer and by rallying communities worldwide to join the fight. As the nations largest non-governmental investor in cancer research, contributing about $ 3.4 billion, we turn what we know about cancer into what we do. As a result, about 11 million people in America who have had cancer and countless more who have avoided it will be celebrating birthdays this year. To learn more about us or to get help, call us any time, day or night, at 1-800-227-2345 or visit cancer.org.

ABOUT GBK:

GBK, formerly GBK Productions, is a luxury lifestyle gifting and special events company, specializing in entertainment marketing integration. Formed in 2000 by Gavin Keilly, the companys Founder and CEO, GBK consists of five divisions: GBK Celebrity Gifting, GBK Special Events, GBK Weddings, GBK Charitable Consulting and GBK Marketing/Public Relations. Widely known in the entertainment industry for bringing that little extra something into the Gifting Lounge environment, GBK offers its clients a full range of marketing services. For more information on Gavin B. Keilly (CEO), Carla Domen (VP) or GBK, please go to gbkproductions.com.

The 20th Century was the period when the celebrity culture took off, especially from the 1940s onwards. There were people who enjoyed celebrity status before then, such as Lord Byron and some music hall stars, but they were the exception. The more mass media there is, the more celebrities we seem to acquire. There are many reasons for the advent of the celebrity century and sociologists have studied the subject in depth.

The 1920s and 1930s were the decades of the silent film and stars like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy were stars. There was glamour too, with Fay Wray and Lillian Gish. Hollywood’s biggest contribution to the celebrity century was movie icon Valentino. He was charismatic and handsome, and mobbed wherever he went. Women wept uncontrollably when he died. He was probably the first celebrity as we think of them today.

Movies also dominated in the 1940s, with male stars such as John Wayne, Clarke Gable and Robert Mitchum. The ladies were represented by Greta Garbo, Rita Hayworth and Lana Turner. Sometimes the pressure of the celebrity century and the fame it brought was too much. Garbo famously withdrew from the limelight, saying that she wanted to be left alone.

Movie stars were the royalty of America and people couldn’t get enough of them. Scandal was rare then, as they were under the protection of the studios, but if it did break loose then they were finished. It was different then, you’d never see Bette Davis with no make up and her hair undone. They were on duty all the time and they always looked gorgeous. The most exciting celebrity century sensations were the celebrity couples, like Gable and Jean Harlow. All the world loves a lover.

By the late 1950s, the anti hero was in vogue and the celebrity culture was changing. James Dean and Marlon Brando had a bad boy image, which the ladies loved. That led on to the counter culture of the 1960s and

Having just returned from our first Celebrity Cruise aboard the Celebrity Century and I wanted to post a Celebrity Century review that hopefully others can benefit from it.

Some background on our cruising experience. This is our 6th cruise we have taken in the last 20 years so by no means are we what you would call experts. Nor would you call us rookies either. In the past 20 years we have cruised with Royal Caribbean, Disney, Carnival and Holland (twice). We have been also fortunate enough to attain a financial level where the last 3 cruises have been at the Suite level.

We booked the Celebrity Century out of Miami Florida, as we wanted to take a New Years Eve Cruise. A word of caution if you are looking to take a cruise over any New Year you will want to book very early. For example, the first week of October there were several options on several cruise lines. In the second week of October most all of these choices we gone.

We left the port of Miami on December 30th 2009 and returned January 4th, 2010.

The Good:

In November of 2009, Celebrity launched several all you can drink options. These include:

-Water

-Beer

-Frozen Drinks (margaritas; daiquiris, etc)

-Alcohol (house alcohol)

There were four of us in our party and we purchased one water card and one beer card for the four of us. I cannot recommend these cards enough. On the water you get your choice of Evian stilled and Perrigrino Sparkling. You get bottled water at no charge at every bar, every restaurant and all day everyday. These are not the small bottles either these are the large bottles of water all the way to the 1.5 liter size. During dinner we easily went through 5 bottles a night.

The same goes for the beer card. The beer card gives you

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