December 27, 2006
Come Early Morning, a well-crafted character study of a scrappy Southern belle whose colossal daddy issues and abysmal role models in the relationship department have caused her to erect ramparts around her heart. Ashley Judd plays Lucy, and as Come Early Morning opens, she's cramming her underthings in her pocket and scramming a hotel room, hoping not to wake whoever it was she drunkenly landed underneath the previous evening. But Lucy's careful movements make her hasty retreat seem like second nature...
>> rochester-citynews.com

December 22, 2006

Judd sees film roles as a way to finance her charitable work

After her lecture at the University of Kentucky in November, Ashley Judd indicated that her latest movie signals a change in direction for her film career...

Judd said that filmmaking has taken a back seat to her work overseas to combat AIDS and sexual slavery and address other issues.

"At this point, this is my career, my job, my calling and my vocation," Judd said. "The film stuff I do to empower me financially so that I can afford to" do charitable work.
>> kentucky.com

December 19, 2006
Ashley Judd is featured in the Dec/Jan 2007 issue of Interview magazine. Interview by Joey Lauren Adams.



Picture from my trip to NY this weekend:



December 1, 2006
Ashley Judd casts her lot for social causes

Want to get Ashley Judd fired up? Just let her talk about organic farming, mountaintop removal coal-mining in Kentucky and sex education in the developing world.

"I love talking about that stuff. I could talk about it all day long," Judd sighs, munching on salmon and asparagus in a warm hotel suite overlooking Central Park.

And then there's AIDS prevention, a cause she has been pushing since she became a YouthAIDS global ambassador in 2002. As part of what she dubs her "service work," Judd, 38, calls donors to ask for money, happily meets with foreign leaders and goes into rural areas in developing countries to talk to prostitutes and young girls about safe sex. She is especially interested in women's rights, "the sexual exploitation of women and women's reproductive health."

Ashley Judd and YouthAIDS: Confronting the Pandemic— airing on TLC tonight (8 ET/PT), World AIDs Day — explores the spread of the disease in Central America... usatoday.com