The holidays are full of heartwarming tales about good deeds. AOL and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital® have partnered to bring you Nice One -- a collection of our favorite true stories. You can also read about the lifesaving work taking place at St. Jude, how you can participate in the St. Jude Thanks and Giving® campaign and the many ways you can donate if these stories leave you feeling inspired. They can't not;)

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nd - of course - you can give to St Jude through their charitable retail partners, just look for the Thanks & Giving magnifying glass at participating retailers.

This package features exclusive quotes from everybody from Smokey Robinson to Will.I,A, (via text from Paris) to Sheryl Crow to Lenny Kravitz to Russell Simmons and on & on ...

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Here's a fun one ... If you (or your kids) dream of stardom, here's your chance to shine on the silver screen... well, sort of. Web site BeInAMovie.com, drums up throngs of extras for films shot on location – from LA to New York and all places in between. Extras are most often needed for crowd, stadium or action scenes. You might find yourself in the stands watching a wild football game or cheering on a horse race – think The Longest Yard & Seabiscuit – just two of the many movies the site has supplied extras for. Signing up to put your name in the virtual hat is free. If you're chosen, you won't be paid for your time, but the site promises "great prizes" to be given away on set, as well as free food and snacks. Plus, you'll have a great story to share with friends and family. Movie fans, also check out: UNSCRIPTED to see real celebs in unique interview setting.

The Academy Awards only comes around once a year, but film buffs can get their fill all day, every day on Cinematical.com ... a one stop shop for movie news, reviews, clips, interviews, casting rumors and a lot more. Cinematical specializes in reliable early buzz on films now shooting or about to release. One of the latest nuggets from the site says there's talk that Axel Foley may die in Beverly Hills Cop 4 .... No word what Eddie Murphy has to say about that, but you can bet Cinematical.com will be on it. With the movie industry setting all kinds of records as affordable entertainment in tough economic times, this may be just the time to buff your movie buffness.

The Academy Awards only comes around once a year, but "the industry" is colorful every day & covered 24X7 on Cinematical.com ... a one stop shop for movie news, reviews, clips, interviews, casting rumors and a lot more. Cinematical specializes in reliable early buzz on films now shooting or about to release. In other words, you'll impress your friends who simply read "Us" magazine;) With the movie industry setting all kinds of records as affordable entertainment in tough economic times, this may be just the time to get "Cinematical."

The award-winning BLACK VOICES website is the #1 African American site for a reason .... Their content. They're covering the Inaugural non-stop with compelling takes on this historic day. Worth a look.

One of the sites we'll be talking about on-air throughout the country today is www.BlackVoices.com. They've got an ongoing "Obama Watch" feature & have added an "Inaugural Ball Crawl" highlighting 20 stops, complete with prices & the odds of getting a ticket.

Purchased Oprah coffee tale book as holiday gift & picked up her magazine this week ... The content is exceptional, brave & just spot on ....

It has also come way down in price (hence, magazine sales up more than 40% online as mentioned in several TV interviews).

Just signed up for OPRAH & MORE (no, am not quite that old, but like to be prepared) ... Here are links (click on pics), if you're up for $1+ a month for you or someone you care about: Other fave: REAL SIMPLE & DOMINO. Plus, THE WEEK.

We'll be talking about this video on the radio this morning. Must say, it's an absolute CLASSIC. If you have, ever will have, or have ever known a pre-teen girl, you'll almost certainly get a kick out of it. Remember David Archuleta ... the runner-up from this year's American Idol? His new album dropped this week and someone uncovered this gem.

My father initially brought this video to our attention & we're talking about it on Wall Street Journal This Morning ... Genius marketing for what's sure to be a hot-seller this holiday season. Lesson learned from previous seasons ... If this is on your shopping list, don't wait. Amazon has them available now. See: Amazon.com: Guitar Hero 4

"Guitar Hero" already has a gigantic worldwide following. This press video explains the phenomenon. Having Sports Gods who could do anything & go anywhere they want hang out around the house & pretend they're rock stars (a la Tom Cruise in Risky Business), drives home just how contagious these games are. I know successful, grown men who say they would have failed out of college if this game was around twenty years ago.

Check out the quick 30 sec. ad featuring Kobe Bryant as lead singer with Phelps, A-Rod & Tony Hawk backing him up ...

AOL Television's newly launched web series "Outside the Box," is an irreverent format giving fans a chance to submit questions to cast members from popular television's shows. Cast members interview one another using the fan-submitted questions, like "How much do you get to improvise?" The debut episode features Kate Walsh, Taye Diggs, Audra McDonald and Tim Daly from the ABC series "Private Practice."

Upcoming episodes of "Outside the Box" feature cast members from "Desperate Housewives," "Dirty Sexy Money" with Lucy Liu and Peter Krause, "Life on Mars" with Michael Imperioli and Jason O'Mara and "Scrubs" with Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke and Donald Faison. If this format continues to take off, you could see further consolidation in talk show host jobs:)

Carrie Underwood, Trace Adkins and Tim McGraw ... if these are household names to you, then mosey on over to TheBoot.com for a perfect fit of 24x7 country music, news and gossip. Check out new video releases, learn the stories behind the songs, catch up with country music's up-and-coming stars and a few of its legendary crooners.

If you frequently turn to the web to keep tabs on your favorite celebrities, popeater.com could be a blog worth bookmarking. Popeater keeps you current with up-to-date music, TV and movie news and it's full of juicy tidbits – from Hollywood's latest flings and falling outs, to celeb cat fights, baby booms and Tinsel Town trouble makers ... it's all here waiting for you.

We have Olympic Fever in our house & this Medal Tracker is a neat thing to "snag" and put on your site or social networking page. It's exciting to see the numbers change throughout the day. There's also an Olympic ToolBar you can download in a matter of seconds. It'll rest right up at the top of your screen & you can glance at it throughout the day.

Olympic Fever is alive and well online & American marketing is on display for the world to see. This controversial "In Your Own Skin" PETA ad debuted this week. Galleries of the always-eye-opening PETA ads + photos of Athletes who have appeared in Playboy are getting a lot of clicks today. Go figure;)

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