It has been a while since I saw someone in Hollywood get this much bad news in the course of a couple of months. For Michelle Rodriguez, the latter half of spring brought her the following drama: * arrested in Hawaii for drinking-and-driving * sentenced to 5 days jail time in Hawaii (she opted not to do community service) * served a day in jail in Los Angeles for violating terms of parole for drinking-and-driving there several years earlier * still has to perform 30 days community service * her character was killed off in Lost I think that I got that list right. This is from news stories I heard over the past month or two, so I might have criss-crossed some of the details. The death of her character allegedly had nothing to do with her drinking, arrest, and subsequent detections. The other stuff was of course due to her drinking and driving. Hopefully, she has learned her lesson. Do not drink, or else do not drive. I was kind of let down to hear about other entertainment legends that have had some reoccurring problems with alcohol as they got up in years. 1. Zsa-Zsa Gabor (watched her all the time on Green Acres as a kid) 2. Jan-Michael Vincent (great actor) 3. Glenn Miller The list goes on. The sad thing is, they could probably go into a room in just about any part of the country and tell the true story of their life. People would just eat it up. The have probably done all kinds of exciting things and certainly many interesting ones. But instead, they kind of crash and burn. Anyway, I hope Mme. Rodriguez makes a decision not to follow in their footsteps.