Sideshow: LiLo laying low in L.A. for rehab

September 30, 2010|By Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer
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  • Nicole Richie promotes her novel "Priceless" - nobody is really one- dimensional, says she.
  • Nicole Richie promotes her novel "Priceless" - nobody is really one- dimensional, says she.
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Maybe she'll make it this time. Lindsay Lohan, who on Friday ducked another jail term, has voluntarily checked into a drug and alcohol abuse rehab program in the Los Angeles area. LiLo, who is, like, only 24, already has done the rehab thing four times, with stays at Promises in Malibu, Wonderland in L.A., and Cirque Lodge in Utah. Just last month, she did a 23-day post-jail stint at UCLA Medical Center.

LiLo went with apparent - that is, photographed - conviction. RadarOnline has posted a pic of LiLo allegedly taken hours before rehab. The actress stands on the terrace of her West Hollywood apartment. She looks resolute. A hero. She's reading Matthew Edlund's self-help tome, The Power of Rest. Edlund, who promises he didn't stage the pic, tells CBS's Early Show, "I just hope [the book] helps her, because at this point she needs a lot of help to rebuild her life, to rebuild her body, to rebuild her mind." Amen.

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John Updike comes home

Alvernia University in Reading announced Wednesday that it would house the scholarly archives for the John Updike Society, devoted to studying Updike's works. Updike, who died last year at 76, was born in Reading and raised in nearby Shillington. The group's inaugural conference is this weekend at the school. Alvernia president Tom Flynn says the society wanted to create a site "in the very locale that did so much to establish Updike as a writer and a man." Flynn will announce Friday that Lehigh emeritus professor Jack De Bellis will become the university's first Updike scholar-in-residence.

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