People: Julia Roberts: "Express elevator or rehab" for today's starlets
Julia Roberts in a scene from "Eat, Pray, Love" (AP)
Oscar winner Julia Roberts saysthe deck is stacked against young actresses today.
"There's the express elevator and there's rehab," she said of the lack of a process for groomingyoung women trying to break into Hollywood.
Roberts, 44, who got her big break 22 years ago in "Pretty Woman," says nobody gets the chance to work their way up slowly and that can make fame harder for them, in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine.
'The business is so different; you can never be that new girl that has that moment of 'Where'd she come from?' She added: 'There's the express elevator and there's rehab. It's so awful; nobody gets a fair trial-and-error period that everybody deserves and everybody
Tiger Woods (AP)
Roberts, who has enjoyed a wildly successful movie career, has her hands full now beingmom to her three children, twins Hazel and Finn, 7, and Henry, 4, with husband Daniel Moder.
Tiger Woods asa Navy SEAL?
Apparently that was his plan and not too long ago.
Even after he'd becomeone of the most successful golfers in the game,Tiger seriously considered quitting his lucrativecareerand becoming a Navy SEAL back in 2007, according to a new book.
Five years ago -- evenbefore his marital implosio! n -- Woo dsmade several visits toSEAL training sessions, a new book "The Big Miss," says.
The book, byWoods' former swing coach Hank Haney, is set to be releasedMarch 27, a week before the Masters, London's Daily Mail says.
Haneywrote that Woods, 36, was inspired to go into the military after his dad Earl served two Army tours in Vietnam as a Green Beret.
Haney writes: I didn't know how he'd go about it, but when he talked about it, it was clear he had a plan.
I thought: "Wow, here is Tiger Woods, greatest athlete on the planet, maybe
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner (AP)
He called his visits to thetraining sessionsa 'dry run' to work out if he could handle the physical and mental demands of being a SEAL.
In 2007 Woods had his most successful year ever during which he won seven tournaments and earned $10 million from tournament fees alone.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner announced their new son is named Samuel, the actor announced yesterday on Facebook.
"We are happy to announce on February 27, Jennifer gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Samuel Garner Affleck," the actor, 39, wrote.
The boy, born
Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied (AP)
"Our girls are working on names. At first they were definitely Disney. It was like, Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse Affleck," the actress, 39, told Jay Leno recently of their decision on naming Samuel. "And then they've moved on. Then it was Peter Pan, Captain Hook, Smee."
The couple, married since June 2005, announced the pregnancy in August.
Turns out Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied did get married secretly -- or at least not publicly.
Rumors abounded after the two were spotted wearing wedding bands at theOscars.
Their jeweler, Jamie Wolf, of all people, confirmedthe news to Us Weekly.
"I designed the rings worn by Benjamin Millepied and Natalie Portman," Wolf told Us. "They were made with recycled platinum and conflict-free diamonds."
The jeweler didn't say when or where the actress, 30, and dancer-choreographer, 34, wed.
The two became romantically linked on the set of "Black Swan."
The had a son Aleph in June 2010.
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