Recently I had gone through a news item featured with our beautiful star-Hilary Duff. The news in site InsideBayArea.com had remarked Hilary as the multimedia Tycoon.
So what, it made me recall why she had to be said so. First the famous POP Star, a good and INSPIRATIONAL Celeb and next the CEO of her own lifestyle company, which makes her the second richest teen for 2007 with an annual income of $12 million.
So, isn't see the MULTIMEDIA TYCOON? I aggred.
After the Friday's performance it was at Victoria this Saturday. Some great videos of the live performance in front of the roaring crowd are to be followed below...
Play with Fire:
The Getaway:
It has already been mentioned that Hilary Duff's latest Album 'Dignity' will be re-released. Read the previous post...
This time the date of Re-releasing has been declared.
Dignity is going to be re-released at 25th of September.
WOW!
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Hilary Duff will rendezvous with fans before her Aug. 25 concert at the Louisville Palace.
But she's asking for something in return: If you want to meet 'n' greet the 19-year-old singer, you'll need to help collect 1,000 cans for U.S.A. Harvest. The Louisville-based charity donates food to the hungry.
Thus far Duff's fans have helped her raise more than 4 million pounds of food.
Call (502) 894-9999 for more information.
Here is Hilary Duff’s latest podcast, which includes a look at her many adorable pets! From Jack to Lola to Bentley to Gloomy - and a first look at Mouse, Hilary’s newest kitten!
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Review: Hilary Duff concert was a night for the girls
| CREDIT: Times Colonist | Hilary Duff performs Saturday night at Victoria's Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre. |
There are many ways to describe Hilary Duff. She's nice: encouraging each of her fans last night at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre to bring canned goods for charity. Her last two Canadian tours have collected more than 57,000 kilograms of food for the hungry. She even tried on a hairnet last week in Edmonton to serve meals to the homeless.
She's sweet -- as hockey star boyfriend Mike Comrie would likely agree (no sighting of him last night). As she told Seventeen magazine last fall, there's nothing she wants more than "the cookie-cutter American Dream. To get married, have kids and have a house with a picket fence." She's polite: thanking the crowd for picking up those $45 and up T-shirts sold at the doors.
She doesn't party, she doesn't drive drunk on the wrong side of a freeway, she doesn't flash paparazzi.
She is also the idol of millions of little girls who've wanted her to be their big sister since catching their first episode of Lizzie Maguire on the Disney Channel.
All these things make the thought of a Hilary Duff show mildly heartwarming. Because it's stating the obvious to mention this show was for the girls. For hundreds of them, dressed up in their own pop-star finery, this was a rite of passage.
Before things started, they were squealing, some bouncing over their seats so much their watchful moms had to anchor them back to their seats. But when Duff appeared, there was one more way to describe her, and considering her effect on the fans it's a little heartbreaking to admit it: She's totally bland.
The electroclash-y Play With Fire was how she made her entrance, strutting down a staircase, flanked by four dancers in a silver short-short jumpsuit, drenched in ghetto-fab jewelry. The outfit sparkled more than poor Duff, though. The number was for dancing, but all she could muster was a few little struts around the stage, occasionally shaking a hip should she feel steady enough on those strappy stilettos. The pop princesses in the stands would probably have more pizazz in their mommies' heels.
The flash carried things along as hit bled into hit. Little fists were pumping along to Come Clean and Getaway while Duff ducked backstage for possibly the most anemic costume change in pop concert history: switching stiletto sandals for black patent pumps. The set stuck closely to Duff's latest record, Dignity, a dancefloor-engineered collection with a debt to pay to the godmothers of the arena pop show -- Madonna, Kylie Minogue -- though amusingly she has been paying closer attention to the work of Pat Benatar; a to-the-note cover of Love Is a Battlefield was probably Duff's most dedicated dance performance, recreating the classic video's shimmying dance-off. The few older, frothier E-Z rock hits included in the 90-minute set got slight retoolings to match the show's dance-y vibe.
So Yesterday turned reggae, complete with a shout-out to Bob Marley. She could have done the song to a polka beat, for all the kids cared, though.
What they got out of the show, never mind how good it was, were some skills they'll carry with them for years. They learned that it's OK to dance like a maniac to your favourite song, to raise a lighter -- ok, maybe a $10 glowstick -- when things shifted into power-ballad mode and to scream like mad when they hear the words, "Good night, Victoria!"
See the great videos of Hilary Duff performing at Vancouver
Our Lips Are Sealed:
"As much as I complain about it, because you’re doing the same thing every day, I love it,"the singer-actress says of the tour, which stops tomorrow in Vancouver at Pacific Coliseum and Saturday in Victoria at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre.
"There’s nothing you can compare to this. It’s excitement every single night, and a challenge to get better and do something new and inspire people."…the peppy performer — who entered the North American spotlight in 2001 as the titular character in Disney’s Lizzie McGuire franchise — appears at ease with the pace.
"I have learned to deal with it since my TV show. That’s my life and this is how it’s going to be for me. When I was younger it was harder to deal with."
"I was telling John (Cusack) that I was nervous," she says. "And he said, ‘If this record sells 10,000 copies or three million copies is it going to make a difference? Would you change it?’ And I said no. I was just happy to have been able to have the experience, because it totally changed me."…
"It was such a relief. For the first time, I was so happy and so relieved. You set yourself up for failure because I’m Top 40 and sing pop music and it’s not cool. But there’s a market for everything. Just because (a magazine) has a certain taste doesn’t mean they have everyone’s taste."…
"I’m not the celebrity who likes to be photographed. But I have gotten more at peace with it."…
"Paparazzi know where my home is and they wait outside on the weekends. But I definitely am not the celebrity that does tonnes of controversial things, so I don’t get it as bad as other people, I don’t think. When you’re walking into a club — yeah, they are going to be there. But if you go to a restaurant that’s low-key, they are probably not going to be there. Lots of celebrities complain about it, but they love it."
"I work so hard, so when I have time off, the last thing I want to do is feel like I have to look a certain way or watch what I do."Courtesy: Victoria Times
Hilary Duff encouraging food donations to The Salvation Army
VANCOUVER, Aug. 3 /CNW/ - Recording artist Hilary Duff is asking fans to bring canned goods to her concert in support of The Salvation Army and Canadian Harvest. Duff's Dignity Tour lands at Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum on Friday, August 3 and at the Save-On Foods Centre in Victoria on Saturday, August 4. Her last two Canadian tours have raised more than 125,000 pounds of
food.
"Working with Canadian Harvest is a way for me to give something back to the community," said Duff. "The last two times I toured Canada, my fans did an amazing job of providing canned goods and I'm certain this time they can do even better!"The partnership between Duff, The Salvation Army and Canadian Harvest launched this summer in Winnipeg on July 28, with the kick-off of Duff's six-week North American tour. Food donations will be collected at 12 shows across Canada. Food will be collected at concert gates by Salvation Army volunteers and will be distributed in the communities where it was collected. Duff is encouraging fans to bring as much as they can carry.
24 seconds with Hilary Duff
By BUZZ BISHOP
Courtesy:24 hours
She has sold more than 13 million CDs, made movies, and created a perfume and clothing line. Tonight she brings her tour to the Pacific Coliseum. Buzz Bishop spent 24 seconds with Hilary Duff on the phone from Edmonton.
24hrs: What's it like being young in Hollywood? Are there people dragging you into trouble, or do you have to go and find it? Hilary: It's everywhere, it's really easy to find it. I love L.A. I live there, it's my home, but it's really easy to lose yourself in that town. You have to really know what you believe in and stick with it and have good friends.
24hrs: So being focused on yourself and what you want to put out there has kept your head above it? Hilary: That and my family. I don't like to live very publicly, like so many people do. I feel like I've worked so much as it is, I want privacy.
24hrs: For most of us, running into an ex at the mall would be painful. How is it for you to see your ex (Joel Madden with new girlfriend Nicole Richie) paraded across the tvs and tabloids this week?Hilary: It's not really a problem for me to deal with it. I want them to be happy. Joel and I ended on very good terms and we ended knowing that it was the right thing to do and it made us both happy. So it's not hard for me to see it.
24hrs: You still balance music and movies very well. You've got three more movie projects coming down the line, including War Inc (with Ben Kingsley and John Cusack) set to debut at the Toronto Film Festival. You've said this role is controversial. What's it all about?Hilary: It's a dark comedy. It's about war and how Americans go into a place and blow it up and take it over and try to act like heroes. It's pretty messed up. I play this over-sexed pop star that has a big spark, but not much to back it up. One thing that was so much fun about doing this movie, is that it's nothing like who I am. It's nothing like my music, I look totally different in it. It's an artsy independent movie and getting to work with all those people was a treat.
24hrs: When did you become a hockey fan? Hilary: I don't know anything about hockey.
24hrs: Well, with Mike Comrie (NY Islanders) on your arm in some photos, you're going to have to learn something. Hilary: Do you want to give me a crash course?
24hrs: Get down to Vancouver and get a good Canucks jersey on your back!Hilary: (laughs) Okay.
edmontonjournal.com
Elizabeth Withey
Wednesday, August 01, 2007Hilary Duff helps serve lunch at the Hope Mission at the Herb Jamieson Centre.
CREDIT: Bruce Edwards/Edmonton Journal
Hilary Duff helps serve lunch at the Hope Mission at the Herb Jamieson Centre.
EDMONTON -Pop singer Hilary Duff dished up chicken stew for hundreds of homeless men at the Herb Jamieson Centre today as part of her personal campaign to raise awareness about poverty and hunger.
The teen celebrity served the hot lunch and dessert for an hour at the downtown emergency shelter, and also visited Hope Mission's nearby headquarters.
"The Hope Mission was a priority and we wanted to lend a hand," she said after completing her kitchen shift. "It's so rewarding for me. I love to get down and dirty and help out."
Duff, who performs at Rexall Place tonight, kicked off the Canadian leg of her North American Dignity tour in Winnipeg Saturday.
She is soliciting non-perishable food donations from Edmonton concert-goers, which will be distributed in the city through food-raising charity Alberta Harvest.
The singer often collaborates with lead organization Canadian Harvest, and has raised more than 125,000 pounds of food on her past two Canadian tours. Founder Stan Curtis said each concert can bring in as many as 3,000 cans of food, enough for 6,000 meals.
Hope Mission spokeswoman Janelle Aker said Duff's efforts will help raise awareness with a younger demographic that might not be aware of the emergency shelter. Many of Duff's fans are children.
"She stayed for the whole lunch," Aker said. "Until the last man received his food."
Duff's appearance also brought smiles to the faces of men who live on the streets of Edmonton, Aker said. Many were surprised to see Duff handing them their meal.
"It's nice when someone who makes a lot of money will look you in the eye and treat you like a real person," Aker said.
Hunger and homelessness are intertwined and deceptively simple problems to solve, Duff said, and compassion is key.
"A big misconception of charity work and celebrities is that it takes a lot of money," she said. "It doesn't take a lot of money. Your time is the best thing you can give."
At the mention of star chatter that Duff is dating former Oiler Mike Comrie, the 19-year-old singer's face brightened with a girlish grin, calling it a funny coincidence to be performing in Comrie's hometown.
"I'm in Edmonton, he's from Edmonton," she said, squirming in her chair. "Some of the guys (at the shelter) asked me about him, about hockey."
ewithey@thejournal.canwest.com
The Edmonton Concert Vidoes of Hilary Duff. Thanks to deesweetescape for the videos and Hilarynews.com for the update.
The videos,
Dreamer:
Dignity:
Come Clean:
Wake Up:
Beat of my Heart:
Danger:
With Love:
Why Not:
Play with Fire:
Stranger:
Gypsy Woman:
Out Lips are Sealed:
Fly:
