News

Los Angeles, May 5: Former Page 3 girl Leilani Dowding has shifted her attention to Scientology and reading a lot about it and it worries her friends.

She apparently started showing interest in Scientology following a string of failed romances. The 33-year-old glam girl had a messy spilt from actor-boyfriend Stephen Dorff last year. She returned to her ex, Us reality telly star George French, but has struggled to make that relationship work, reports thesun.co.uk.

A friend said: "Her friends are worried. She has become robot-like."

Ians...

Trying to write a series about the personal aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the week of the Federal Flood 5 Year Anniversary ensures you'll be as blocked as anyone who tries to get past The Saints' Jon Stinchcomb. But here goes part three for what its worth. By October 2005, Wilco was planning a November benefit in Chicago for the Preservation Resource Center and the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund. My husband Jeff asked the band if he could fly New Orleans musicians in to open for them, and they were all for it. The musicians were all over the country at the time and that added a wrinkle to booking flights, but in the end we brought Craig Klein, Leroy Jones, James Andrews, George French, Cranston Clements, Joe Krown, Alonzo Bowens and Brian Barberot to O'Hare. The horn players learned...