Medical Center to host Star Studded Fifteenth Anniversary Celebration of ...

LOS ANGELES, June 15, 2011 /NewsRelease/ - The Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA), Los angeles Chapter and LAC+USC Medical Center may co-host a 15th anniversary breathmobile celebration on Fri, June 17, 2011 beginning from 1:00 p.m. at LAC+USC Medical Center located at 1200 North State Street, L.A., CA. 90033. The USC Trojan Marching Band will certainly kick-off the event with a rousing efficiency to begin sharply from 1pm. The celebrity host for this function is Ted Chen, distinguished press reporter and news anchorman from KNBC Channel 4 News.

Confirmed celeb athletes (who occur to also have asthma) include Olympic Gold Medalist Tyree California, NBA Star along with New Orleans Hornets Energy Forward Trevor Ariza, Atlanta Falcons Running Back Chris Draft who will also work as the Keynote Speaker. Presenter Ashley Scott, who has starred in films such as Into the Blue, AI: Unnatural Intelligence, Walking Tall, as well as television shows including Dark Angel and also Jericho, will also serve as a presenter. Yellow Dog Documents recording artist, Your Soul of John Black will serve because the featured music performer with this event.

The Breathmobile® is definitely an “asthma clinic on wheels,” that provides free prognosis, treatment, medications along with education for children with asthma at their school site. The project was developed by the Florida Chapter of the Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America to address the rising morbidity rates of asthma in high-risk disadvantaged children. Examination studies of the Breathmobile® have got demonstrated dramatic enhancement for patients treated on the Breathmobile® including: fewer emergency room visits, improved upon pulmonary function, a new decrease in school absenteeism with an improved quality of life.

Extra ceremony speakers include Councilwoman Jan Perry, LAC+USC Healthcare Network CEO, Pete Delgado, AAFA President Sharon Boucher, as well as Division Chief regarding Allergy & Immunology, USC Medical Center, Lyne Scott, M . d .. Breathmobile units from USC Infirmary, Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA, Arrowhead Localized Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of Lemon County will all be available at the event for visiting.

The Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America – Los angeles Chapter serves as your premiere patient organization dedicated to improving the total well being for people with asthma and hypersensitivity and their caregivers via education, advocacy, and also research. AAFA-CA is a 501(d)3 charity dedicated to controlling asthma and sensitized diseases for countless sufferers and largely focuses its attempts on increasing public awareness of the severity of asthma along with allergic diseases and providing medication as well as treatment to the under-served along with uninsured of Ca.

'Green Lantern' takes flight as a solidly entertaining bit of ...

No, I'm not talking about Superman -- but that's an honest mistake for a puny Earthling such as yourself. The New Orleans-shot " Green Lantern " -- Hollywood's latest attempt to forge gold from America's comic book library -- is a movie that is unafraid to borrow from those that came before.

There are tropes. There are clichés. There is an undercurrent of formula pulsing throughout director Martin Campbell's big-screen version of the venerable, ring-wearing D.C. Comics superhero, which opens in theaters Friday (June 17). Tonally, it most resembles 2008's "Iron Man," from whose blueprint Campbell borrows liberally. Both are built around solid slices of humor and action. Both center on comic book characters with whom many non-nerds are, at best, only casually familiar. And both have charismatic leading men playing irreverent but lovable playboy types who stumble headlong into every little boy's fantasy: superherodom.

Campbell also repeatedly tips his cap to Richard Donner's "Superman," which essentially began this whole superhero film craze back in 1978. "Green Lantern" starts with an introductory voiceover by Geoffrey Rush that recalls Marlon Brando's intro to Donner's film. James Newton Howard's soaring score contains a four- or five-note riff that recalls John Williams' "Superman" theme. And, most notably, there's an entire, sweet scene that lovingly rips off a snatch of memorable banter between Christopher Reeve's Superman and Margot Kidder's Lois Lane.

But as derivative as it feels at times, the ambitious "Green Lantern" also includes some strikingly and satisfyingly original flourishes. There is a dazzling computer-generated suit. There is a wink-and-a-nod acknowledgment of its own clichés. There are spectacularly rendered off-planet segments.

All of that -- along with the presence of the exceedingly charming Ryan Reynolds in the title role -- ends up making a difference. Not only does it rescue Campbell's film from becoming just another superhero film, but it transforms it into a solidly entertaining summertime spectacle and one of the more enjoyable films in the genre since " Iron Man ."

It also is among the best major Louisiana-made films since " The Curious Case of Benjamin Button " in 2008.

The odd thing is, as long as "Green Lantern" has been around -- first appearing in print 71 years ago, in 1940 -- and as rabid and loyal a following as it has developed in that time, it still is considered a second-tier comic. It also is one whom few people know nearly as well as they know, say, "Superman" or "Batman.

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