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TMZ's reporting Michelle Rodriguez has been released from Lynwood today, 163 days short of the 180 she was sentenced to. Last we checked, Kief is still in the Glendale City Jail on Day 37 of his 48-day stint. Like the table of Ye Rustic regulars loudly bemoaning his absence over Jager shots last night, we've got to ask: Where is the justice? [TMZ]
True, celebrity mugshots bring us joy all year round, but there's something about the final few of the year, as reassuring as a Happy Everything card dropped in our mailbox from an old friend, that truly touches us in the most tender quadrants of our hearts: a happy reminder that regardless of what strife is thrown at us, life in Hollywood will go on. And so we share with you this booking photo of stalwart recidivist Michelle Rodriguez, who checked herself into former Hilton-rehabilitating facility Lynwood on Sunday for the first of a Kiefer-eclipsing 180-day sentence for failing to perform court-ordered community service and drinkin' on the SCRAM.
· Why does it take the threat of a strike for people to start cranking out the truly genius ideas? Fox has ordered a script that could generate a Prison Break spin-off set in a women's penitentiary, a project that would be perfect for Michelle Rodriguez once she concludes some previous obligations. [THR]
· ABC's Cavemen inches ever closer to joining Viva Laughlin in the Fall season's "bold TV experiments canceled too soon to see how terrible they could eventually become" club, drawing its lowest key demo ratings to date. Somewhere, Hugh Jackman's wife sheds a tear in sympathy. [Variety]
Michelle Rodriguez will be returning to jail, TMZ reports alongside one of their trademarked mid-hiccup screen grabs, for having repeatedly violated the terms of her DUI parole. (More specifically for lying about having fulfilled her 30 days of community service.) She was sentenced to 120 days in jail, though the judge did not specify if those were Richie days or Hilton days, meaning the Lost casualty could wind up again out in under five hours and partying the same night at the Roosevelt, or forced to live out the full four months among a "primal crew" of like-minded lady convincts who live for their Friday night soap-dice craps games and extreme salt-fighting championships.
While repeat DUI-offender Michelle Rodriguez's employment woes have been temporarily staved off, having won a role in James Cameron's hotly anticipated Avatar, her legal troubles continue to come up on her like a Spam-and-cheese sandwich after one too many after-work Scorpion Bowls. At issue is an L.A. parole violation for her drunk driving arrest in Hawaii, for which she was sentenced to 60 days in jail, and which, in typical celebrity justice fashion, turned into 4 hours and 27 minutes of hard time, and 30 mandated days of community service. Now prosecutors are claiming she came up short, and lied about the days she claimed she did work:
One of the exciting side-projects bouncing around in the head of underemployed Lost casualty and happy-hour road menace Michelle Rodriguez has finally gotten off the ground: The actress is currently covering the globe in search of rich and eclectic foreign cultures she can rip off take inspiration from while designing Ishkadada, her vaguely pan-ethnic line of clothing:
In the grand tradition of Lindsay Lohan's Gore-entreating, fully adequite call to arms, and Courtney Love's 53 New Year's Resolutions Towards a Less Demon-Plagued Me, comes yet another worthy addition to the canon of incomprehensible celebrity manifestos. This time, the author is Lost casualty and repeat DUI offender Michelle Rodriguez, who responds on her website forum to lesbian magazine Curve for outing her based on "their own suspicions." Well, despite Kristanna Loken's unsubtle hints in the past that the two had been shacking up, it's simply not so, says Rodriguez. We think:
Michelle Rodriguez, who last year found her Lost character falling victim to a network-president-ordered /showrunner-sanctioned hit, is no stranger to the wrong side of the law, having served time both in LA and Hawaii for various well-publicized DUI offenses. "But what's her side of the story?" you've not likely asked yourself. The Lost Blog guides us to Rodriguez's own site, where she finally opens up about the rough justice she suffered at the hands of the corrupt American penal system that forced her to do 4 hours and 27 minutes of a 60-day sentence. It's all in there: The cockroach droppings! The alcohol-sensing robo-bracelet! The disparity between TV and film payscales! Read on, if you dare:
Kristanna Loken, who hit the public's radar somewhere around the time Arnold Schwarzenegger slammed her T-X deathbot's head into a toilet bowl in Terminator 3, was asked recently by The Advocate about rumors that she and BloodRayne co-star Michelle Rodriguez's mutual, vampiric bloodlust had spilled off the set and into their personal lives:
When frequently incarcerated actress Michelle Rodriguez was recently asked how she passed the time during her brief, yet eventful, recent stints in jail, she gamely demonstrated her most memorable night in lock-up using nothing more than her own armpit and a pantomime vagina helpfully provided by a nearby fan. Onlookers were initially stunned by the display, but by the time she finished her impromptu, bravura performance, she was basking in their lusty applause.
When it came to her 60-day LA County jail sentence for violating parole by getting arrested in Hawaii on a DUI charge, Michelle Rodriguez was prepared to "do what you got to do." In the end, however, all she had to do was 4 hours and 27 minutes of hard time, upon which she was released because of overcrowding:
TMZ.com's compassionate brand of stalkerazzism is on glorious display in this video of them hounding Michelle Rodriguez during her last-minute shopping excursion before starting a 60-day LA County prison stint for violating parole. (Though we're not sure what she could possibly need right now. Maybe some of those automatically replenishing doggie bowls?) Looking not at all like someone thrilled to embark on a two-month adventure of gypsy-discovery, Rodriguez graciously submits to the barrage of nosy questions, offering about her time behind bars, "You do what you got to do." She also opens up about future plans: "I'm moving to France...You know, people don't bother you there." We're not sure which people she's referring to. If it's the paparazzi, 5 million "Goodbye England's Rose" single-purchasers would beg to differ. If it's those pesky, DUI pooh-poohing police, we think she'll be dismayed to discover that France is full of them, and that they have entirely low tolerance thresholds for excuses along the lines of, "But in America, we swerve on the other side of the street!"
• After serving five days in jail rather than do community service for drunk driving in Honolulu, Michelle Rodriguez has been sentenced to 60 days for violating parole on a previous drunk driving incident in LA. She's also been ordered to rehab and must serve 30 days of community service. Clearly, the law is no fan of the way things have been going on Lost. [TMZ]
• Bad news for Brooklyn: Michelle Williams' father, Larry Williams, is in jail on tax evasion charges and stands accused of hiding $1.5 million from Uncle Sam. Which is exactly how he became a financial guru. [Page Six]
• Paris Hilton plays an angry voicemail from Lindsay Lohan for a group of friends, then calls her a cunt." We believe the correct term is firecrotch. [R&M (last item)]
• The ballad of Axl and Tommy continues: while the official line is that Hilfiger punched Axl Rose after Rose moved his drink (presumably so that Rose could take his table), Hilfiger's rage may be heightened by the fact that Rose is dating Diane O'Connor, the ex-wife of Hilfiger's adopted brother, Michael H. [Page Six]
• Namibians want to declare a national holiday on the day that Angelina Jolie gives birth. [MSNBC]
• Socialite Tory Burch's clothing line isn't selling, despite an Oprah endorsement in 2004. Will O save face by frying Burch on an upcoming episode? [Lowdown]
The only thing that seems to fire Michelle Rodriguez's pistons faster than the thought of $2 Mojito Madness night and the ensuing, S-shaped joyride home, is the hard time she has to do once she gets caught. Rodriguez made her 65-hour stint in a Hawaiian prison sound like an overnight pajama party with the Pink Ladies. ("It was so cool....Drawing pictures for everybody on their shirts...singing showtunes with the girls.") Since the crime violated parole for a previous arrest in LA, Rodriguez was undoubtedly thrilled to learn she's been sentenced to an additional 60 days of jail time:
Somewhat unsurprisingly, serial drunken joyrider and former Lost star Michelle Rodriguez did not find being locked up for 65 hours with several hundred hard-bodied hardened, female criminals to be a cruel and unusual punishment. To hear her describe it, her weekend in all-girl detention was wall-to-wall talent shows and arts and crafts classes:
The Honolulu Star Bulletin was on hand at yesterday's sentencing of repeat offender Michelle "The Drunk and The Furious" Rodriguez, who opted for a five-day prison sentence (she has four days left to serve) over 240 hours of community service. The report notes several bizarre comments made by the actress, including a plea for leniency on the grounds that she only got her driver's license seven years earlier for a "car racing movie" and that all of her driving experience "started and was acquired from car racing school." Even stranger was her explanation of her wild belligerence upon her arrest, during which she dared the cops to "put a gun to my head and shoot me!":
An ABC series you won't be hearing Steve McPherson complain about any time soon is Lost, that rare show which manages to remain both a huge critical (it just won the Golden Globe for best dramatic series) and ratings hit. And in much the way salary allotment works in your workplace, Lost's entire cast has just been rewarded for a job well done with a huge pay increase:
It's interesting to watch the drunk driving arrests of Lost actresses Michelle Rodriguez and Cynthia Watros play themselves out, as a sort of good souse/bad souse pattern appears to be emerging, with Rodriguez taking on the role of dissident dipsomaniac to Watros' cool and contrite. At their recent arraignment hearing, Watros turns on the waterworks (through a worded statement read by her lawyer, of course) and gets a slap on the wrist; but "Four Strikes" Rodriguez isn't swerving away quite that easily:
