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Showbiz Today Reports: Ann-Margret Discusses Need to Get Bone Density Test; 'NSYNC's 'Celebrity' Hits Shelves
Aired July 24, 2001 - 10:45 ET
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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Ann-Margret is playing a role of a lifetime. She is showing us what 60 looks like. She is spokeswoman and role model for the educational campaign What 60 Looks Like Now. Ann-Margret is our guest this morning, from New York City.
Ann-Margret, good morning. Good to have you with us.
Are you there?
ANN-MARGRET: Yes, I am.
KAGAN: There you are. I could not hear that famous lovely voice for a second.
Good morning, thanks for being with us.
ANN-MARGRET: It's a pleasure.
KAGAN: This is what 60 looks like?
ANN-MARGRET: It sure is. I feel great, and nothing is going to slow me down. I keep exercising, and I stay active, and I make sure that my health is good and that my bone health is good.
KAGAN: I know you are still performing as well. I think not that long ago, you were down here in Atlanta, performing in "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
ANN-MARGRET: You should see me trying to explain that to my mother.
KAGAN: How did do you that?
ANN-MARGRET: For 2 1/2 hours every night, I'd sing and dance and act through some dramatic parts and everything. But I wanted to say to everybody, especially women, because there are 28 million people who have this disease...
KAGAN: We're talking about osteoporosis.
ANN-MARGRET: Osteoporosis, yes.
KAGAN: Osteoporosis being your cause today. ANN-MARGRET: And 80 percent of the 20 million are women. So I have this message I want to give everybody: to go to your doctor, get a bone density test.
KAGAN: Have you done that?
ANN-MARGRET: I can't really hear...
KAGAN: Have you done that? Have you had a bone density test?
ANN-MARGRET: I had a bone density test last year and about three weeks ago, and I got A-plus on these. I want to tell everybody that the bone density test is quick and easy. It is noninvasive, and all you take off are your shoes. You lay down on this table, and there's this machine that goes over you and mainly tests your hips, your wrists, and your spine, for seven minutes.
KAGAN: It was not that big of a deal. In the news today is news about hormone replacement therapy, and I know a lot of women consider going on that, to fight osteoporosis. Has that been a choice that you've had to make?
ANN-MARGRET: No -- it's breaking up.
KAGAN: OK. So you are just encouraging people to talk with their doctors for osteoporosis.
ANN-MARGRET: You coming in now.
KAGAN: You know what? We're going to go ahead and check and see what the situation is with your earpiece so that we can have a better conversation.
That's Ann-Margret, in New York. She was joining us today to talk about encouraging women to stay young, stay healthy, and also check with their doctors for been density and to fight osteoporosis.
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KAGAN: We're still working on fixing the earpiece with Ann- Margret.
Meanwhile, there's other showbiz news to report, and Michael Okwu has that for us.
Hi -- Mike.
MICHAEL OKWU, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Daryn.
Be honest: Deep down, you know it's a list we all want to be on. MTV announced the nominees for the 2001 Music Video Awards. Taking top honors was Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice," with nine nominations.
Other top nominees tied with six each: Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya and Pink, for their sexy video "Lady Marmalade"; Missy Elliott, for "Get Ur Freak On"; and not surprisingly, 'NYSNC popped up with six as well, for the video "Pop," off their highly-anticipated third album.
The awards show will air live from New York's Metropolitan Opera House on MTV in September.
Now I just want to pause and give thanks for being able to say "Get Ur Freak On" on national television.
If six nominations for the "Pop" video are any indication of the fascination music lovers have for 'NSYNC, then it's no wonder fans were lined up at record stores across the country last night when 'NSYNC's third album, "Celebrity," went on sale. Their last album, "No Strings Attached," which spawned the single "Bye Bye Bye," broke records when fans bought, bought, bought more than one million copies in its first week of release.
Sherri Sylvester hung out with the boys last night, at a star- studded release party, where everyone was anticipating more broken records.
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SHERRI SYLVESTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): 'NSYNC is trying to repeat the record-breaking performance of their last album. But as they launch "Celebrity" at a premier party in Hollywood, they admitted they have broken the rules of teen pop music.
JC CHASEZ, 'NSYNC: Great R&B, mid-tempo songs, pop -- like every song has its own unique style. Almost like a church feel on one of the last songs.
SYLVESTER: But will their young fans tune in or out?
LANCE BASS, 'NSYNC: Of course, we would love to break the record, you know, but I think that that was a fluke in history, what happened last year, with "No Strings Attached." But I believe the album will do very well. We don't know about the first week.
SYLVESTER (on camera): $2.4 million in one week is a tough act to follow. But 'NSYNC seems less interested in record sales than in the effect.
('NSYNC, "POP")
SYLVESTER (voice-over): "Celebrity"'s first single, "Pop" takes aim name at the naysayers.
DAVID BROWN, "ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY": What's interesting about 'NSYNC is I actually think they've topped themselves artistically. I think "Celebrity" is probably the best of their three records.
SYLVESTER: The album's release comes two months into their Pop Odyssey tour. Usually the concerts follow the CD, but fans have gotten to hear the new songs early, and 'NSYNC's concert promoter says they are selling out huge venues. IRV ZUCKERMAN, CLEAR CHANNEL ENTERTAINMENT: We are doing 40,000 plus and many, many more in certain cases, where we are doing double stadiums on 'NSYNC. So, we are very, very positive about the band.
SYLVESTER: It's a marketing strategy that seems to be working. It was midnight madness in New York's Times Square as fans snapped up the first copies of the disc.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALES: Bye, bye, bye. We love you, 'NSYNC!
SYLVESTER: NBC in Burbank became a weekend campground when word got out of an 'NSYNC appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." They know their names.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is Justin and JC.
SYLVESTER: They know their birthdays.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: May 4, January 31, August 8.
ANNOUNCER: Welcome, 'NSYNC!
SYLVESTER: In short, they love 'NSYNC.
'NSYNC: Baby, I can't believe something like you happened to me
SYLVESTER: Sherri Sylvester, CNN, Los Angeles.
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OKWU: Well, it's time for us to pop on out of here.
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KAGAN: It looks like we fixed our glitches, and we have all of out technical stuff working.
With us is Ann-Margret, in New York City.
Welcome back.
ANN-MARGRET: Thank you. I am back.
KAGAN: Good. And you can hear us just fine this time?
ANN-MARGRET: I sure can.
KAGAN: Very good.
You were sharing with us incredible secrets of staying so fabulous at 60.
ANN-MARGRET: I exercise three times a week; I have a trainer; and every Saturday morning, a bunch of my friends and I go walking in the hills, up and down, up and down. I stay healthy. I'm always moving. And I make sure that my bone health is good. I want to share with everybody: Go to see a doctor; get a bone density test. You can call this number: 1-800-224-4042, to get more information about this osteoporosis, which is a weakening of the bones. My brochure will tell you a lot of information, and you get that one for free.
KAGAN: For all the causes that you could talk about and all the health causes, why this one? Why does this touch your heart?
ANN-MARGRET: I'm very concerned about it. I did not know about these been density tests until last year.
KAGAN: Really?
ANN-MARGRET: Yes, and I was shocked to know that women in my age group did not know about them either, and no one had suggested them to them. I never heard of a bone density test, and I got a-plus on the one I did last year, and one I did about two weeks ago.
KAGAN: So you're looking as good on the inside, apparently, as you are on the outside, as well.
ANN-MARGRET: Thank you.
KAGAN: Do you think it is fair to set the standard that this is what people -- men, especially -- should expect 60 should look like? That's a pretty high bar for us to meet.
ANN-MARGRET: No, but that's very sweet. If you are healthy, if you can move, weight-bearing exercises are really good -- like walking, running, jogging, everything -- even swimming. I know that's not weight bearing, but swimming is very good.
I think women my age -- they had a poll, and they said that this is the best time of their life. Osteoporosis is postmenopausal, and there are 20 million people who have this disease, and 80 percent of them are women.
I just want everybody to know about this. I want to get this information out to everybody. It's a simple test.
KAGAN: And you said it's not that big of a deal and that you did very well.
Ann-Margret, thanks for spreading the word, and thanks for stopping by to talk with us today.
ANN-MARGRET: It's a pleasure.
KAGAN: We appreciate it.
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