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Published: May 5, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Peaches Geldof to be questioned by police
LONDON, May 5 (UPI) -- Authorities reportedly plan to question the 19-year-old daughter of Irish rock icon Bob Geldof after she was pictured in a newspaper appearing to buy drugs.
The Daily Telegraph said Peaches Geldof is to be interviewed by police this week.
However, the Metropolitan Police Service doesn't discuss who it speaks to and would not officially confirm the information.
The News of the World, which ran the images, claimed the younger Geldof was surreptitiously filmed paying a man and a woman for drugs.
The newspaper said the pair was arrested and later released on bail.
Police seized the footage of the alleged drug deal from the same man believed to have shot a well-publicized video showing singer Amy Winehouse allegedly smoking drugs, the News of the World said.
Paula Yates, Peaches Geldof's mother, died of a drug overdose eight years ago, the Telegraph noted.
Oprah left Wright's church in the '90s
CHICAGO, May 5 (UPI) -- Oprah Winfrey stopped going to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Chicago church in the 1990s in part because she didn't like his messages, two sources told Newsweek.
The insiders said Winfrey was uncomfortable with the tone of some of the more controversial sermons Wright gave at the Trinity United Church of Christ.
"Oprah is a businesswoman, first and foremost," Winfrey's longtime friend, who wished to remain anonymous, told the magazine. "She's always been aware that her audience is very mainstream and doing anything to offend them just wouldn't be smart. She's been around black churches all her life, so Reverend Wright's anger-filled message didn't surprise her. But it just wasn't what she was looking for in a church."
Winfrey's one-time business associate said the popular talk-show host told them she also left the church because she had grown tired of organized religion.
"There is the Church of Oprah now," her longtime friend laughed. "She has her own following."
Newsweek said Winfrey declined to comment and a Harpo Productions representative wouldn't discuss her reasons for leaving the church.
Presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., of whom Winfrey is a loyal supporter, has recently come under fire for his relationship with Wright, his former pastor.
Downey says he remained optimistic
NEW YORK, May 5 (UPI) -- Robert Downey Jr. said that even as he battled drug addiction several years ago he could see himself one day starring in a big Hollywood film like "Iron Man."
Asked if he could imagine himself playing a superhero seven or eight years ago, the "Iron Man" star told UPI before the film's release: "Sure. I could always picture myself in the best possible position. Also, sometimes, these things are like, you know, astronomy. Some things just don't line up until they line up."
Downey said the attention and success he is now enjoying is all the more satisfying, given everything he has been through.
"It's pretty sweet," he said. "I also know that on the other side of this, there's a big
Freudian inflation and I'm ahead of that curve and I'm not interested in being built up to the point where I'm buying into something, you know? I haven't changed that much. I just started acting in accordance with … it's just the right action."
"Iron Man," which co-stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard and Jeff Bridges, earned more than $100 million at the box office when it opened last weekend.
Parker wanted 'Sex' film, not more series
NEW YORK, May 5 (UPI) -- U.S. actress Sarah Jessica Parker said she was eager to revisit the world of "Sex and the City" -- just not on the small screen.
A film version of the popular TV comedy is set for release in U.S. theaters May 30.
"Sex" veteran Michael Patrick King wrote, directed and produced the movie, which features original "Sex" stars Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon.
Asked why the team decided to make a film instead of simply doing another season of the show, Parker, who also produced the movie, told reporters in New York Sunday: "I don't think Michael and I wanted to come back in series form. Our personal lives were different. I have a son ... that still really likes (me and his father Matthew Broderick) and wants us around. Now is not the time for me to leave him and a movie is a finite period of time and so, lo and behold, two years later here we are."
Parker said that right now she doesn't want to speculate about whether there might be a second "Sex" movie down the line.
"Getting to this point has been the sole professional focus of my life for the last two years. I never thought I would be sitting here talking to you on this day about this movie," she said. "We cannot believe this dream has come true. So, to think beyond this, is greedy. It's not up to us anyway."
LONDON, May 5 (UPI) -- Authorities reportedly plan to question the 19-year-old daughter of Irish rock icon Bob Geldof after she was pictured in a newspaper appearing to buy drugs.
The Daily Telegraph said Peaches Geldof is to be interviewed by police this week.
However, the Metropolitan Police Service doesn't discuss who it speaks to and would not officially confirm the information.
The News of the World, which ran the images, claimed the younger Geldof was surreptitiously filmed paying a man and a woman for drugs.
The newspaper said the pair was arrested and later released on bail.
Police seized the footage of the alleged drug deal from the same man believed to have shot a well-publicized video showing singer Amy Winehouse allegedly smoking drugs, the News of the World said.
Paula Yates, Peaches Geldof's mother, died of a drug overdose eight years ago, the Telegraph noted.
Oprah left Wright's church in the '90s
CHICAGO, May 5 (UPI) -- Oprah Winfrey stopped going to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Chicago church in the 1990s in part because she didn't like his messages, two sources told Newsweek.
The insiders said Winfrey was uncomfortable with the tone of some of the more controversial sermons Wright gave at the Trinity United Church of Christ.
"Oprah is a businesswoman, first and foremost," Winfrey's longtime friend, who wished to remain anonymous, told the magazine. "She's always been aware that her audience is very mainstream and doing anything to offend them just wouldn't be smart. She's been around black churches all her life, so Reverend Wright's anger-filled message didn't surprise her. But it just wasn't what she was looking for in a church."
Winfrey's one-time business associate said the popular talk-show host told them she also left the church because she had grown tired of organized religion.
"There is the Church of Oprah now," her longtime friend laughed. "She has her own following."
Newsweek said Winfrey declined to comment and a Harpo Productions representative wouldn't discuss her reasons for leaving the church.
Presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., of whom Winfrey is a loyal supporter, has recently come under fire for his relationship with Wright, his former pastor.
Downey says he remained optimistic
NEW YORK, May 5 (UPI) -- Robert Downey Jr. said that even as he battled drug addiction several years ago he could see himself one day starring in a big Hollywood film like "Iron Man."
Asked if he could imagine himself playing a superhero seven or eight years ago, the "Iron Man" star told UPI before the film's release: "Sure. I could always picture myself in the best possible position. Also, sometimes, these things are like, you know, astronomy. Some things just don't line up until they line up."
Downey said the attention and success he is now enjoying is all the more satisfying, given everything he has been through.
"It's pretty sweet," he said. "I also know that on the other side of this, there's a big
Freudian inflation and I'm ahead of that curve and I'm not interested in being built up to the point where I'm buying into something, you know? I haven't changed that much. I just started acting in accordance with … it's just the right action."
"Iron Man," which co-stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard and Jeff Bridges, earned more than $100 million at the box office when it opened last weekend.
Parker wanted 'Sex' film, not more series
NEW YORK, May 5 (UPI) -- U.S. actress Sarah Jessica Parker said she was eager to revisit the world of "Sex and the City" -- just not on the small screen.
A film version of the popular TV comedy is set for release in U.S. theaters May 30.
"Sex" veteran Michael Patrick King wrote, directed and produced the movie, which features original "Sex" stars Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon.
Asked why the team decided to make a film instead of simply doing another season of the show, Parker, who also produced the movie, told reporters in New York Sunday: "I don't think Michael and I wanted to come back in series form. Our personal lives were different. I have a son ... that still really likes (me and his father Matthew Broderick) and wants us around. Now is not the time for me to leave him and a movie is a finite period of time and so, lo and behold, two years later here we are."
Parker said that right now she doesn't want to speculate about whether there might be a second "Sex" movie down the line.
"Getting to this point has been the sole professional focus of my life for the last two years. I never thought I would be sitting here talking to you on this day about this movie," she said. "We cannot believe this dream has come true. So, to think beyond this, is greedy. It's not up to us anyway."
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