Miley Cyrus's all-consuming guilt over injustice, poverty
Miley's social responsibility With success and wealth comes social responsibility, says Miley Cyrus, whose Happy Hippie Foundation helps homeless youth. Cyrus tells Elle that she's a lot like the character she plays in Woody Allen's Crisis in Six Scenes: a hippie activist riddled with anxiety about the world's injustices.
Miley's social responsibility
With success and wealth comes social responsibility, says Miley Cyrus, whose Happy Hippie Foundation helps homeless youth. Cyrus tells Elle that she's a lot like the character she plays in Woody Allen's Crisis in Six Scenes: a hippie activist riddled with anxiety about the world's injustices.
The role reminded Cyrus of the guilt that consumes her for not helping others. "I was covered in rashes because I was so stressed," she says. "So now I try to do as much as I can."
Cyrus says she has vowed never to do the red carpet again, since it's such an ostentatious sign of privilege.
"Why, when people are starving, am I on a carpet that's red?" she says. "Because I'm 'important.' . . . That's not how I roll."
Springsteen at Free Library
Bruce Springsteen will hold a meet-and-greet with fans at noon Sept. 29 (the line will open at 10:30 a.m.) at the Free Library of Philadelphia's Central Branch to promote his new memoir, Born to Run. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.
A ticket will run you $33 and comes with a presigned copy of the book. Born to Run will officially hit shelves Sept. 27.
Arquette dies of AIDS
Alexis Arquette, 47, died Sunday of complications arising from AIDS, an unnamed source tells People. An actor like her siblings, Patricia, Rosanna, Richmond, and David, Alexis was born Robert and underwent gender reassignment about 12 years ago.
David tweeted: "Thank you all for your love and kind words about Alexis. My hero for eternity."
'SNL' adds three comics
NBC said Monday that the 42nd season of Saturday Night Live will feature three new comics - SNL writer Mikey Day, America's Got Talent Top 16 finalist Melissa Villaseñor, and Chicago improv actor Alex Moffat. SNL premieres Oct. 1.
Same bondage, new P.O.V.
Novelist E.L. James, who has brought bondage to the bourgeois with her Fifty Shades trilogy, has a new book.
It's a retelling of the second book, Fifty Shades Darker, but from Christian Grey's perspective. Fifty Shades Darker From Christian's Point of View is due after the second movie opens in February.
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