Mischa Barton was hospitalized for two hours on Memorial Day weekend after an antibiotic she was taking interacted badly with alcohol.
Barton, 21, starred on Fox network's teen drama "The O.C." Her screen credits include "The Sixth Sense," "Notting Hill" and the upcoming "Virgin Territory."
"She is fine now," said a statement from her publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnik. The statement said Barton left Tuesday for an undisclosed overseas location to begin work on a new movie.
Britney Spears says she "hit rock bottom," in a message posted on her Web site about the end of her marriage and her time in rehab.
"Recently, I was sent to a very humbling place called rehab. I truly hit rock bottom. Till this day I don't think that it was alcohol or depression," the 25-year-old pop star writes. "I was like a bad kid running around with ADD (attention deficit disorder)."
Spears completed a monthlong stay at a luxury Malibu rehabilitation treatment facility in March after a series of run-ins with the paparazzi that included a stop at a San Fernando Valley hair salon, where she was caught on video shearing her own locks. Other photos splashed across the Internet appeared to reveal Spears out partying wearing nothing underneath her short skirts.
She was seen going out with Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan after filing for divorce from aspiring rapper Kevin Federline last November, just two months after giving birth to their second child, Jayden James. The pair also have an older son, Sean Preston, now 20 months.
The couple reached a divorce settlement in March.
"I had a manager from a long time ago come in and try to direct me and my life after I got my divorce," writes Spears. "I was so overwhelmed I think that I was in a little shock too. I didn't know who to go to."
"I realized how much energy and love I had put into my past relationship when it was gone because I genuinely did not know what to do with myself, and it made me so sad. I confess, I was so lost," she writes.
"I think the whole problem was letting too many people into my life," she continues. "You never know another person's intentions or what another person wants. ... I have had to cut so many people out of my life."
Spears also says she is "having to face a lot of things" as she raises her two young sons. "A lot of insecurities from when I was little are coming up again," she writes. "It is like we are never good enough."
Explaining her recent behavior, she says: "I think it is actually normal for a young girl to go out after a huge divorce."
"I am going to make mistakes everyday, and I am sure every mistake I make will probably be on CNN or `Good Morning America,'" she says. "I am only human people and I love you for still loving me."
She closes by saying: "We will never really understand or figure out life completely. That's God's job. I can't wait to meet him ... or her. Love, Britney."
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Paul Newman's career has included winning an Oscar, establishing a food company to fund charities, and operating a restaurant, but he said this week he is retiring from acting.
"I'm not able to work anymore as an actor at the level that I would want to," the 82-year-old Hollywood star told ABC News in an interview released on its Web site on Friday.
"You start to lose you memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So I think that's pretty much a closed book for me," he said.
Newman brought a memorable series of rough, charming and roguish characters to the screen like the alcoholic Brick in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," the quirky "Cool Hand Luke," the suave con man in "The Sting" and the dissolute title character of "Hud."
He earned nine Academy Award acting nominations but his only win was for best actor in "The Color of Money" in 1987 as the same pool shark he had played when he was nominated in 1962 for "The Hustler."
One of his biggest financial hits came in 1969 with "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," a tongue-in-cheek Western that paired Newman with Robert Redford. The two teamed up again in 1973 as con men in "The Sting."
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LONDON - Keira Knightley has accepted a $6,000 settlement of her libel claim against a British tabloid over a story that suggested she was to blame for the death of an anorexic teenager.
The actress also said the story falsely suggested that she had an eating disorder.
Kate Wilson, representing the publisher of the Daily Mail, Associated Newspapers, told a court Thursday the newspaper accepted that Knightley was not responsible for a death, and that Knightley "does not have an eating disorder, and has not misled the public."
In January, the Daily Mail published a photo of Knightley in a bikini with the headline: "If pictures like this one of Keira carried a health warning, my darling daughter might have lived."
Knightley's lawyer, Simon Smith, said the article could be interpreted to say that she was personally responsible for the death of Sophie Mazurek, 19, who had suffered from anorexia.
Knightley, who was not in court, intends to donate the settlement to Beat, an eating disorder and mental illness charity.
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LONDON (AFP) - A British broadcaster at the centre of a racist bullying row over Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty was ordered Thursday to make an unprecedented series of on-air apologies.
Britain's communications watchdog Ofcom found Channel 4 guilty of "serious editorial misjudgement" over incidents in "Celebrity Big Brother" in January which sparked more than 40,000 viewer complaints and angry protests in India.
In the first such sanction ever imposed on a British public service broadcaster, Ofcom ordered Channel 4 to issue the apologies when a new Big Brother series begins next week.
Big Brother is a massively popular reality television show where viewers chose a winner from among people whose activities are broadcast around the clock by cameras inside their studio house.
Shetty, 31, won the celebrity version of the show in January for what viewers saw as a dignified performance in the face of racist bullying.
She was insulted by fellow contestant Jade Goody -- a former reality TV celebrity whose profile has plummeted since the show -- and by former Miss Great Britain Danielle Lloyd.
She also rowed with fellow contestants when she cooked a chicken and they made derogatory comments about the eating habits of Indian people.
Ofcom said that Channel 4 had not handled these situations appropriately.
"Ofcom takes allegations of racist abuse and bullying on television extremely seriously," it said in a statement, adding it had found Channel 4 guilty of breaching Britain's broadcasting code.
The watchdog could have imposed a fine but demanded apologies instead.
Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan accepted the sanction as "proportionate" for the mistakes made but said no one would be forced to resign because "human error" is not a disciplinary offence.
"Our focus now is on learning lessons from this. We accept that we were not sufficiently responsive to the audience and the level of offence caused to the public," Duncan said.
Duncan said the housemates would be warned about what constitutes unacceptable behaviour when the new Big Brother show begins next week.
"They will be issued with guidelines on bullying and behaviour generally as part of the briefing process. But we don't want people to be afraid to express their opinions in the house."
Lawmaker Keith Vaz, who championed Shetty's case in parliament and introduced her to Prime Minister Tony Blair when she emerged as winner from the Big Brother house, said it was "only right" that the broadcaster should apologise.
"Channel 4 has behaved in an arrogant way which has shown contempt for the code of broadcasting," he said.
Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, who has described the programme as "racism being presented as entertainment," welcomed the ruling and that Channel 4 had acknowledged its "errors of judgment."
Shetty, who was reduced to tears during her torment, has exonerated Channel 4.
"I have no grudges against anybody -- not the people who head Channel 4, not the people who were in the house with me. I've moved on. For me it's a closed topic," she said.
NEW YORK -Jessica Alba — ranked No. 2 on this year's "Hot 100" list by Maxim magazine — has a rebellious side.
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"I love challenging authority," the 26-year-old actress tells InStyle in its June issue, on newsstands Friday. "It probably wasn't easy being my parents. The second somebody says `no' to me is the second I'm going to jump up and say `yes!'"
Alba, whose screen credits include "Sin City" and "Into the Blue," reprises her role as Susan Storm/Invisible Woman in "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer," set for release June 15.
"My experience in this business is that if people think you're going to put people in seats because you have a fan base, it's more important than anything," she says.
She's finally "getting to play characters and dive into things and not just be sort of this version of `this girl,'" says Alba, who found she was typecast as "some kind of little tart."
"Because obviously, if you have a womanly figure, you're not allowed to have a brain or any idea of the world whatsoever. You just have to be hot and use your body to get ahead."
But that body helped win her countless male fans, and, in turn, increased her value to movie producers and casting directors.
"I had womanly curves at a young age," says Alba, who starred as a mean high school student in 1999's "Never Been Kissed." "Usually kid actors are a few years older than the roles they play. I was two or three years younger."
"Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer," a Twentieth Century Fox release, also stars Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis.
