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Interview With Karen Wood

Aired March 09, 2003 - 17:19   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Screen Actors' Award. And whose our lucky guy to be there? None other than our own Andy Culpepper. Andy, are you getting a sneak peek at the goodie bag there?
ANDY CULPEPPER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thank you very much. My kingdom for some hair. Yes, actually there's a lot of stuff going on behind me, right now. I'd settle for hair gel. It's a little windy. But I've got two ladies here with me who have been busy getting this whole production together. And I'm going to introduce them to you right now. On my right, Karen Wood, who is with Backstage Productions.

KAREN WOOD, BACKSTAGE CREATIONS: Backstage Creations.

CULPEPPER: Creations. I knew I'd get that wrong. And Karla Tamburrelli, and you're with a rather big organization. What's it called?

KARLA TAMBURRELLI, SCREEN ACTORS GUILD: The SAG Awards.

CULPEPPER: So, what we're looking at right now are some of the goodies that go in the aforementioned goodie bag. Tell me how long you've been working on this to pull all this together, and how many items are we talking about?

WOOD: Well, we started in October, and we have 92 items total in the gift basket.

CULPEPPER: All right, show us (UNINTELLIGIBLE)

WOOD: You want to see some?

CULPEPPER: Yeah.

WOOD: Sure. Well, first of all, everyone, of course, loves MP3 players. We have the Phillips MP3 players. We have Annie glass. This is a hand-painted glass, and they get a whole set of the glassware. We also have the Kippys belt. Madonna actually wears this stuff. Isabella Fiore bags. We have Garrett popcorn. You think of movies, you want to eat popcorn. So we have popcorn. The Oregon (ph) scientific recorder. Of course, I'm wearing the Maurice Lacroix watch. We had Maurice Lacroix last year as well. John Hardy has this beautiful picture frame for ladies and a razor for men. Sigerson Morrison shoes. Of course, we have the Tattinger that is being served today on the tables for the SAG awards, as well as the DryCreek vineyard.

CULPEPPER: And a couple of little bottles here.

WOOD: Little bottles. Yeah, this is Charles & Covard. That's actually moissanite. It's not diamonds.

CULPEPPER: Moissanite?

WOOD: Moissanite. It's a meteorite. It's made out of a meteorite. It's very expensive though. It's along the range of diamonds.

CULPEPPER: I would think it would be harder to get.

WOOD: Yes, it's very hard to get.

CULPEPPER: Let's talk a little bit about what's been going on online. And I should ask Carla, people can actually bid on some of these items themselves.

TAMBURRELLI: Yes, they can. As a matter of fact, we're grateful to the companies who have donated these products, because we take one of these gift baskets, and we auction it on eBay at ebay.com/sag awards. Anyone can dial up on it. And the proceeds go to the SAG Foundation, which we all know benefits some wonderful charities, but also book pals for children all around the country for a literacy program. So it's a good cause.

CULPEPPER: That really is. Now, a lot of money, obviously, will change hands today and has been changing hands because this costs a lot of money. I'm going to put you on the spot. You said 92 items.

TAMBURRELLI: Ninety two items, yes.

CULPEPPER: How much would the retail value be?

WOOD: We actually don't say because it is a gift. And we feel it's a little inappropriate to say here's your x dollar gift. But we also, besides having the basket, we have a special treat for the presenters today. And it's the celebrity retreat. And it's the room where they come shopping. We have wonderful things like this jewelry here its astrick (ph) design.

CULPEPPER: We'll have to hear more about that later, because I have to throw things back to Atlanta. But Karen, Carla, thank you very much. And it's a mystery, folks, back to you.

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Aired March 9, 2003 - 17:19   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Screen Actors' Award. And whose our lucky guy to be there? None other than our own Andy Culpepper. Andy, are you getting a sneak peek at the goodie bag there?
ANDY CULPEPPER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thank you very much. My kingdom for some hair. Yes, actually there's a lot of stuff going on behind me, right now. I'd settle for hair gel. It's a little windy. But I've got two ladies here with me who have been busy getting this whole production together. And I'm going to introduce them to you right now. On my right, Karen Wood, who is with Backstage Productions.

KAREN WOOD, BACKSTAGE CREATIONS: Backstage Creations.

CULPEPPER: Creations. I knew I'd get that wrong. And Karla Tamburrelli, and you're with a rather big organization. What's it called?

KARLA TAMBURRELLI, SCREEN ACTORS GUILD: The SAG Awards.

CULPEPPER: So, what we're looking at right now are some of the goodies that go in the aforementioned goodie bag. Tell me how long you've been working on this to pull all this together, and how many items are we talking about?

WOOD: Well, we started in October, and we have 92 items total in the gift basket.

CULPEPPER: All right, show us (UNINTELLIGIBLE)

WOOD: You want to see some?

CULPEPPER: Yeah.

WOOD: Sure. Well, first of all, everyone, of course, loves MP3 players. We have the Phillips MP3 players. We have Annie glass. This is a hand-painted glass, and they get a whole set of the glassware. We also have the Kippys belt. Madonna actually wears this stuff. Isabella Fiore bags. We have Garrett popcorn. You think of movies, you want to eat popcorn. So we have popcorn. The Oregon (ph) scientific recorder. Of course, I'm wearing the Maurice Lacroix watch. We had Maurice Lacroix last year as well. John Hardy has this beautiful picture frame for ladies and a razor for men. Sigerson Morrison shoes. Of course, we have the Tattinger that is being served today on the tables for the SAG awards, as well as the DryCreek vineyard.

CULPEPPER: And a couple of little bottles here.

WOOD: Little bottles. Yeah, this is Charles & Covard. That's actually moissanite. It's not diamonds.

CULPEPPER: Moissanite?

WOOD: Moissanite. It's a meteorite. It's made out of a meteorite. It's very expensive though. It's along the range of diamonds.

CULPEPPER: I would think it would be harder to get.

WOOD: Yes, it's very hard to get.

CULPEPPER: Let's talk a little bit about what's been going on online. And I should ask Carla, people can actually bid on some of these items themselves.

TAMBURRELLI: Yes, they can. As a matter of fact, we're grateful to the companies who have donated these products, because we take one of these gift baskets, and we auction it on eBay at ebay.com/sag awards. Anyone can dial up on it. And the proceeds go to the SAG Foundation, which we all know benefits some wonderful charities, but also book pals for children all around the country for a literacy program. So it's a good cause.

CULPEPPER: That really is. Now, a lot of money, obviously, will change hands today and has been changing hands because this costs a lot of money. I'm going to put you on the spot. You said 92 items.

TAMBURRELLI: Ninety two items, yes.

CULPEPPER: How much would the retail value be?

WOOD: We actually don't say because it is a gift. And we feel it's a little inappropriate to say here's your x dollar gift. But we also, besides having the basket, we have a special treat for the presenters today. And it's the celebrity retreat. And it's the room where they come shopping. We have wonderful things like this jewelry here its astrick (ph) design.

CULPEPPER: We'll have to hear more about that later, because I have to throw things back to Atlanta. But Karen, Carla, thank you very much. And it's a mystery, folks, back to you.

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