Does anyone care...

...that Hilary Swank forgot to declare some fruit at the airport in New Zealand?!?!?!?! How long is this going to attract headlines?

Scale of 1-10... Anxiety 100.

With just over 6 weeks left of graduate school, I am really feeling the stress. Decisions need to be made about the thesis, the MFA show and applications for residencies. After graduation I am taking a vacation on the couch.

School student went on a shooting rampage Monday

Police said the student, Jeffrey Weise, killed two of his grandparents, went to his high school and killed seven people there.

The dead include five students, a female teacher, a male security officer.

Floyd Jourdain, chairman of the Red Lake Ojibwa Nation, said he "knew practically all the people involved" in the shootings on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. The community is dealing with "shock and disbelief," he said

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Senate Votes to Allow Drilling in Arctic Reserve

WASHINGTON, March 16 - President Bush's long-stalled plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling cleared a major hurdle on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, when the Senate voted to include the proposal in its budget, a maneuver that smoothes the way for Congress to approve drilling later this year.

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Sideways couple to part ways

Why do couples always split up after a rush of success?!?!

TORONTO -- Sideways director Alexander Payne and his wife, Ottawa-born actress Sandra Oh, are separating, a spokeswoman for the couple told People magazine.

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Scientologist Elfman wants to ‘clear the planet’

MSNBC - Updated: 2:55 a.m. ET Feb. 15, 2005

Some Jenna Elfman fans were startled by what the star had to say in a recent issue of Scientology’s magazine Celebrity.

The former star of “Dharma and Greg” is a devotee of the controversial religion, whose members also include Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

“I intend to make Scientology as accessible to as many people as I can. And that is my goal,” Elfman said. To do this, she says, it is my “duty to clear the planet.” By “clearing” she means to rid the world of “body thetans” — aliens who Scientologists believe inhabit the earth from a nuclear explosion 75 million years ago. She continued that “the more successful I became, the more suppression I bumped into … especially in the entertainment industry, which really is home to rabid suppression.”

“Her comments seem to reflect an increasingly almost paranoid view of the world around her in which she appears to have cleared house of all the suppressive people,” Rick Ross, who runs Cultnews.com, tells The Scoop. “Which to Scientologists would include all the people who are critical of Scientology.”

I'll stand by my man

As a true Sean Penn fan, I will remain loyal and stand by his remark at the Oscars. The reality is, the show was mediocre at best, and there were no surprises as far as winners go. At least Penn took his moment on screen to say something of substance...

"When Chris Rock walked onstage to host the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday night, he got a standing ovation just for being there - an encouraging sign that the establishment-heavy audience was eager for a show that was fresh and irreverent, with a whiff of the future. That illusion lasted less than five minutes. All those Oscar voters in the audience weren't amused when Mr. Rock started taking some mild jabs at the industry, as he did with an early joke that called Jude Law a second-rank star.
By the end of the evening, Sean Penn was jabbing back with the pompous comment that Jude Law "is one of our finest actors," a humorless, self-important moment he seized before announcing Hilary Swank as the all-too-predictable best-actress winner for "Million Dollar Baby."
The Rock-Penn showdown, and the mini-sweep of top awards for "Baby," create a perfect snapshot of the dilemma the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences faces: it knows it ought to move into the 21st century but hates the idea. "