Hollywood headlines: A crazy week in review
By Kate Stanhope and Denise Martin, Times Staff Writers
At first, there was clarity. After appearing, um, not well during several episodes of “American Idol,” Abdul this week admitted to Ladies Home Journal that she had been addicted to pain killers in the past. But then, 48 hours later after the story surfaced online, she took it all back. “”I want to make it perfectly clear to everyone that I have never been addicted to or abused drugs in my life,” Abdul said. How does her song go again? Two steps forward, two steps back. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
With less than a month until the start of production on the eighth season of “24,” its star has gone and gotten into trouble with the law again. Sutherland is charged with third-degree assault for allegedly head-butting a designer who he thought was harassing actress
Cooper, of “Alias” and “Wedding Crashers” fame, is reportedly one of the final choices to play the Green Lantern’s Hal Jordan on the big screen. Let’s hope he picked up a thing or two about kicking butt from former co-star
With Thursday’s tragic ousting of
America, we’re so through with you. (Michael Becker / Associated Press)
