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May 08, 2006

Shirley Temple: Cinema's Cutest Toxin Gets Recalled

Army Archerd had Shirley Temple right where he wanted her over the weekend, cornering the ageless 78-year-old child star into answering for a DVD collection that includes charm bracelets with high amounts of lead. Alas, Hollywood's First Blogger let the mischievous moppet off the hook as she adorably pointed a finger at the studio:

Shirley told me she received word about the recall -- and the reason -- from Fox Entertainment's Steve Feldstein. She commented that she has no input on the DVD packaging of her hits. "I don't own them," she said. "I made an arrangement with them (20th Century) years ago."

Despite her non-ownership, Shirley assured me, "It worked out very well. Financially, I am taken care of, but I have no control of it. Everything's O.K." Feldstein visited her at her home in to talk about the DVDs.

Archerd writes that more than 730,000 lead-based DVDs face recall, while the US Consumer Product Safety Commission and Fox last week posted an appropriately cutesy pink-and-white Web site encouraging viewers to send in the charms for a shot at a free DVD. So in a nutshell, if you or your poor kid are strutting around wearing charms you claimed from Curly Top, Heidi, Little Miss Broadway, Baby Take a Bow, Bright Eyes, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Dimples, The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel or any of the three Shirley Temple Collections containing those films, ship them back. Tackiness has never been deadlier.

Posted by stvanairsdale at May 8, 2006 12:10 PM

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Posted by: Ju-osh at May 8, 2006 01:17 PM