4Moms Mamaroo

4Moms' award winning baby swing/bouncer, the Mamaroo will be hitting store shelves on 20 January 2010. The seat has five different motions and five different speeds. You can also plug your MP3 player into to swing. It will cost $199.95.

And that is the updated version of the Origami stroller in the background. No word on when it will be released.

Kendra Wilkinson's Hubby Fired In Favor Of Michael Vick

Update: Baskett will be going to the Indianapolis Colts

The good news for NFL star Hank Baskett is that now he can spend a lot more time with his pregnant wife Kendra Wilkinson.

The bad news? He's out of a job.

The Philadelphia Eagles announced on Tuesday they had cut Baskett, 27, from their 53-man roster, a move that makes room for controversial quarterback Michael Vick.

Reached by the Philadelphia Inquirer after the news broke, Baskett responded: "I'm not speaking about it."

Baskett was released despite having had his best season ever in 2008, with 33 catches and three touchdowns.

Vick, however, is considered a stronger offensive player. The star quarterback, 29, last played for the Atlanta Falcons in 2007, but was let go after he was sentenced to 18 months in a federal penitentiary for organizing a dogfighting ring. He is set to begin practicing with the team today.

Baskett and Wilkinson are expecting a boy on Christmas Day.

Poor thing now has to spend all his time with that annoying wife of his.
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Patrick Swayze

Full Name: Patrick Wayne Swayze
Born: Patrick Wayne Swayze on August 18, 1952 in Houston, Texas, USA
Job Titles: Actor, Dancer, Singer, Songwriter, Carpenter, Professional skater, Restaurateur.

Patrick Swayze was a Texas-born Hollywood movie actor whose background in ballet and gymnastics ironically gave him a physique well-suited for his roles as hunky love interest or macho action film hero.

He never surpassed the popularity of his earnest, romantic blockbusters “Dirty Dancing” (1987) and “Ghost” (1990), but after suffering bouts of alcoholism, and removing himself from Hollywood altogether, he seemed to regain new perspective that would raise the bar for his acting future. And if nothing else, his utterance of the line, “Nobody puts Baby in the corner,” from “Dirty Dancing,” virtually guaranteed big screen immortality.

Patrick Wayne Swayze was born on Aug. 18, 1952, in Houston, TX. His father, Jesse Wayne, had been a champion rodeo cowboy and Mom, “Patsy” Yvonne Swayze, was a dancer and choreographer who owned the Houston Jazz and Ballet Company. His parents were not the only performers in the family – Swayze was also a distant relation of actors William Holden and Tom Hulce. Swayze began dance training with his hard-driving mother at an early age, focusing on a ballet career even before thoughts of acting. But high school was tough for a teenage boy in a leotard, so for several years, Swayze also developed his sporting side, participating in gymnastics, swimming and football at Waltrip High School in Houston. Consequently, the physical overachiever was offered scholarships for both dance and athletics, opting for the gymnastics program at San Jacinto College in Houston. To add to his impressive skills roster, he had also become an accomplished figure skater. Two years later, he got his first break into show business when he was offered a role as Prince Charming in the “Disney on Parade” touring ice show.
In 1972, Swayze decided to re-focus on his original love of ballet, so he headed for the bright lights and abundant career opportunities of New York City. He got right to work, studying at the Harkness and Joffrey Ballet Companies and getting hired as the principal dancer at the Eliot Feld Ballet Company. Several years into his New York run, his hometown girlfriend, Lisa Niemi, a fellow dancer whom he had met at his mother’s studio, joined him in New York. The two were married not long after. When a high school football knee injury reappeared and cut his career with Feld short, Swayze made a lateral move to theater. His rugged looks, winning smile, and studied movements helped him land roles on Broadway’s “Goodtime Charley,” “West Side Story” and “Grease.”
Swayze’s high-profile turn as Danny Zuko onstage in “Grease” suddenly brought Hollywood knocking, and he and Lisa answered by packing up and moving West. He began landing parts, appearing as a bad boy on wheels in the big screen roller-skating flop, “Skatetown USA” (1979) and as a leukemia patient on an episode of “M*A*S*H” (CBS, 1972-1983). Swayze’s big film breakout came in 1983 when he was cast as eldest greaser Darrel Curtis in Francis Ford Coppola’s period teen melodrama, “The Outsiders” – a movie which also launched the careers of Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez and Tom Cruise. Hollywood quickly saw Swayze’s leading man potential, giving him the starring role as a young Confederate soldier in the miniseries, “North and South” (ABC, 1985) and as one of the local militants fighting the Russians in the laughable teens vs. Communists action flick, “Red Dawn” (1984).
Everything changed in 1987 when he became an overnight sensation with his starring role in “Dirty Dancing” opposite Jennifer Grey. It may have been the part he had been preparing for his whole life – rakish dance teacher Johnny Castle, who enjoyed tight pants, Cuban heels, and had an eye for the young ladies. He earned a Golden Globe nomination for the film, and also contributed an original song – “She’s Like the Wind” – to the soundtrack. The song hit #3 on the pop charts and the film soundtrack became one of the top-selling soundtracks in history. Also immortalized: “Nobody puts Baby in the corner,” uttered by Swayze to Jennifer Grey’s father, Jerry Orbach, during the film’s dance-off finale, which in subsequent years, became one of the most beloved and often repeated lines in film history.
The actor’s next two titles were action films, but in Swayze-style action, he whirled through fight scenes like a West Side Jet in “Road House” (1989) and leapt into a mob-revenge melee like a gymnast in “Next of Kin” (1989). Only three years after securing leading man status in “Dirty Dancing,” Swayze lived up to the hype by turning in another iconic performance in the blockbuster romance, “Ghost” (1990). Setting the ladies’ hearts afire with his sensitive portrayal of the dead lover who can never tell his girl he loves her while alive, “Ghost,” was a monster hit. Coming seemingly out of nowhere, the film featured Swayze as the slain lover of Demi Moore, who continues to communicate with and protect her in the afterlife. With this role, Swayze showed a range heretofore unseen – most especially witnessed in comic scenes with quack psychic, Whoopi Goldberg and in his tearful, earnest attempts to contact Moore from the great beyond. And much like “Dirty Dancing,” Swayze offered up another quotable quote – “Ditto” – to say nothing of another famous film scene in which Swayze and Moore erotically sculpt clay to the Righteous Brothers’ ballad, “Unchained Melody.” For his work, Swayze received a second Golden Globe nomination and People magazine included him in their “Sexiest Man Alive” issue the following year. Without a doubt, Swayze’s impossibly perfect abs and pecs being on full display while sculpting clay shirtless had something to do with his placement that year.
After appearing in two of the most popular films in history, there was no place else to go but down. Inevitably, the actor’s next string of films did not fare as well at the box office. It was not surprising when he was overlooked at the Golden Globes for playing a surfing bank robber in “Point Break” (1991) – a film high on machismo, but laughable on plot. Four years later, he surprised audiences who were used to his romantic dramas and gut-punching action movies, when he starred in the quirky, cross-country drag-queen romp, “To Wong Foo, Thanks for everything! Julie Newmar” (1995).

In the late 1990s, Swayze experienced several career setbacks including a broken leg suffered while filming “Letters from a Killer” and increasing problems with alcoholism. His father had died of the disease in 1982, and Swayze admitted to lapsing in and out of periods of heavy drinking. His sister had committed suicide in 1994, and it contributed to the tailspin that landed Swayze in rehab. After his release, he and Niemi decided to get away from the Hollywood atmosphere and relocate to a ranch in Texas, even turning down a $6 million dollar offer to do a “Dirty Dancing” sequel. After a time, Swayze returned to work, appearing in some of the more critically-acclaimed films of his career, including the Sundance nominee “The Green Dragon” (2001) and the cult-classic “Donnie Darko” (2001). Back onstage, he played the tap-dancing Billy Flynn in “Chicago” on Broadway, and “Guys and Dolls” at the Piccadilly Theater in London. In 2006, he appeared alongside Kristin-Scott Thomas and Rowan Atkinson in the independent British film, “Keeping Mum,” where he received positive nods for his tongue-in-cheek role as an aging ladies man.
Due to his high-profile roles in fluffy blockbusters of the ‘80s and ‘90s, Swayze became a bit of a cult icon for the succeeding generation of pop culture hipsters. “Swayze” was transformed into a bona fide adjective in the hip hop world, with “I’m Swayze” meaning “disappeared” or “gone” like his character in “Ghost.” Film parodists “Mystery Science Theater 3000” (Sci-Fi Channel, 1988-1999) included an original song called “Patrick Swayze Christmas” in one of their holiday episodes, with the puppet hosts wishing their viewers “the Swayziest Christmas of them all.” Indie rockers Kane Hodder even cut a song called “I think Patrick Swayze is Sexy,” while, at the same time, The Petition Site.com received signatures of dozens of people who believe “No More Patrick Swayze Movies Should be Made.” Love him or hate him, no one could claim the dancer-turned-actor did not inspire great passion from both his fans and his detractors.
It was precisely this passion which led fans and even those ambivalent toward the actor to express their deepest sympathies when the National Enquirer broke the news in March 2008 that Swayze only had five weeks to live, due to terminal pancreatic cancer. The news shocked the masses, leading to a forced rebuttal from Swayze’s physician, Dr. George Fisher, who did confirm the cancer, but not the tabloid’s prognosis, stating “Patrick has a very limited amount of the disease and he appears to be responding well to the treatment.” An outpouring of affection from both fans and former co-stars began pouring in, leading the family to release the statement: “We appreciate the love that’s coming back to Patrick from all his fans.” The actor had just shot a pilot for A&E, “The Beast,” which, despite the news, the network confirmed was a major contender to go to series and that they believed Swayze would be able to continue his role once his cancer treatment was finished.

Family
* Brother: Don Swayze. Born in 1958
* Brother: Sean Kyle Swayze. Born in 1962
* Father: Jesse Swayze. Died in 1982
* Mother: Patsy Swayze. Choreographed films, Urban Cowboy (1980) and Liar s Moon (1982); also owned a ballet school
* Sister: Bambi Swayze.
* Sister: Vicky Swayze. Committed suicide c. 1994

Education
* Waltrip High School, Houston, TX

Milestones
* 1975 Broadway debut as dancer in Goodtime Charley
* 1979 Film debut, Skatetown USA
* 1983 Returned to features films with roles in The Outsiders and Uncommon Valor
* 1983 TV series debut, Renegades
* 1984 Played first feature lead in the war drama, Red Dawn ; first film with Jennifer Grey
* 1985 First success TV mini-series, North and South set during the Civil War
* 1986 Co-starred with Rob Lowe and Keanu Reeves in the hockey-themed feature, Youngblood
* 1987 Breakthrough role as dance instructor, Johnny Castle in Dirty Dancing co-starring Jennifer Grey; earned a Golden Globe nomination for the role; also sang one of the songs on the soundtrack, She s Like the Wind
* 1989 Starred in Road House as a bouncer at a seedy roadside bar
* 1990 Became co-owner (with Bobby Ochs) of Mulholland Drive Cafe; restaurant closed in 1996
* 1990 Co-starred with Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg in the successful romantic fantasy-thriller, Ghost
* 1991 Re-teamed with actor Keanu Reeves in the action hit, Point Break
* 1995 With Ochs, opened second restaurant, Bobby O s City Bites
* 1997 Broke right leg and fractured left leg in riding accident during filming of Letters From a Killer
* 1997 Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (August 18)
* 2001 Acted in the Vietnam-set The Green Dragon ; screened at Sundance
* 2001 Co-starred in Without a Word a film co-written and directed by Lisa Niemi
* 2002 Co-starred in Waking Up in Reno with Billy Bob Thornton and Charlize Theron
* 2003 Appeared on Broadway as slick lawyer Billy Flynn in the Tony Award winning musical Chicago
* 2004 Had a cameo appearance as a dance instructor in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
* 2004 Played a choreographer in the NBC sitcom Whoopi
* 2006 Made London stage debut in the musical Guys and Dolls as Nathan Detroit
* 2006 Played Kristin Scott-Thomas golf teacher in the British comedy “Keeping Mum”
* 2009 Co-starred as an aging rock star, opposite younger brother Don, in the film Powder Blue (released straight to DVD)
* 2009 Played FBI Agent Charles Barker in the A&E drama, The Beast
* Began career as dancer, touring as Prince Charming in Disney on Parade
* Co-founded, with Lisa Niemi, Troph productions
* Danced as a guest artist with Buffalo Ballet Company before studying with the Harkness Ballet
* Performed as skater at Galleria Ice Skating Pavilion in Houston
* Performed briefly as a principal dancer with the Feld Ballet; left because of aggravated knee injury from high school football
* Performed with and wrote material for six bands

US film star Patrick Swayze dies

Swayze fought his disease in public
Dirty Dancing film star Patrick Swayze has died aged 57, his publicist says.

Annett Wolf said that the US actor, who had been battling pancreatic cancer for nearly two years, died with family at his side on Monday.

Swayze was diagnosed with advanced stage four pancreatic cancer in January last year.

The actor had been starring in US TV show The Beast since being diagnosed with the disease. He had also planned to write a memoir with his wife.

"Patrick was a rare and beautiful combination of raw masculinity and amazing grace"

"Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months," said a statement by Annett Wolf quoted by the Associated Press.

No other details were given.

Jennifer Grey, who co-starred with Swayze in Dirty Dancing, said in a statement: "Patrick was a rare and beautiful combination of raw masculinity and amazing grace. Gorgeous and strong, he was a real cowboy with a tender heart.

"He was fearless and insisted on always doing his own stunts, so it was not surprising to me that the war he waged on his cancer was so courageous and dignified."

He was always uncomfortable with the Hollywood sex symbol tag
Rob Lowe, who played in a number of films with Swayze, said: "Patrick lived a thousand lifetimes in one lifetime. He was an expert dancer, he wrote hit songs, he starred in hit movies, he was an amazing horseman.

"But the thing I will remember him most for was his amazing love affair with his wife Lisa."

Ashton Kutcher, whose wife Demi Moore co-starred with Swayze in Ghost, wrote on Twitter: "RIP P Swayze."

Greg Kilday, the film editor for Hollywood Reporter, said Swayze was "in the tradition of a performer like Gene Kelly, who invested dance and romance with a real masculine athletic appeal".

Swayze's dream

In January, Swayze admitted he might only have two years to live, but denied he was near death.

In a US TV interview, he admitted he was "scared" and "going through hell".

"Am I dying? Am I giving up? Am I on my death bed? Am I saying goodbye to people? No way," Swayze told TV interviewer Barbara Walters.

"I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light," he said.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most virulent forms of cancer which medical experts say has a 5% five-year survival rate.

Orbit Baby G2

There is quite a buzz about the Orbit Baby G2. The stroller just premiered at the ABC Kids Expo. First off, it's red. Finally something other than grey or beige. It is also a stroller that you can use from birth if you aren't interested in the car seat. Orbit has introduced what they are calling 3D Rotation. The stroller now reclines, forward and back. Even though I don't understand why you would want to tilt a baby forward. And no more air pump, they replaced the old tires with foam tires and gave them 4 shock absorbers per tire. Then they gave the stroller a hard footrest that can be adjusted as your child grows. And on hot days you can unzip a vent in the back of the stroller for increased air circulation. There are also some cosmetic changes like, a newly designed cupholder, and a covered snack tray for the kiddies.

Expect it around January 2010. There isn't a price listed yet, but expect it to priced similarly to the first generation toddler stroller which is around $600.

And did you see that sweet red carrycot in the background. And the beige cover on the stroller, also in the background, is probably Orbit's new organic fireproof seat covers. I'll try to get more information on those for later.

I do have a complaint, not about the Orbit, but about the Kids Expo. Why not have it during the summer? A lot of people have kids in school during September and can't attend. Most of the publicity for this thing comes from blogs, so why not make it easier for parent bloggers to attend.

Update: Pish Posh Baby has the stroller for preorder. It says $900, but that seems to be a misprint. The price will remain around the same.
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David Henrie and Selena Gomez at the Creative Emmys

Don't they look like something out of a Disney fairytale? Wizards won an Emmy for Best Children's Program.
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Lauren London Has Given Birth

It is being reported that Lauren London gave birth to a 7lb 12oz baby boy in Los Angeles on September 9. Serial baby's daddy, Lil' Wayne was by her side the whole time. (Question is did he sign the forms that California require for a man to acknowledge paternity, or will there be a paternity test.) Hotlanta Buzz also has unconfirmed reports that the little boy, who looks like Mommy, is called Lennox Samuel Ari Carter.
Update: The man clearly has never heard of a condom. In addition to his 10 year old daughter, Reginae , he has an 11 month old son, Dwayne III. So he knocked up Lauren right after having that baby. And then there is the baby he is expecting with Nivea any day now. Sounds like someone is a bit of a slut.
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