I love drew

Drew Barrymore's nude sprint
Jan. 23, 2007 07:44 AM
Drew Barrymore loves to run naked in Irish fields.The actress - who claims she has outgrown her wild teenage years - admits she still loves to be spontaneous sometimes.Drew confessed to Parade magazine: "I'll drive in Ireland and park my car and run out into the field and rip all my clothes off and just run in the wheat fields naked. That's for no one to see. That's to have that freedom of feeling at one with nature. So I am completely unguarded, still."

The 31-year-old star admits she still finds it difficult to forget her troubled childhood, but is determined to remain positive.Drew, who recently split from her boyfriend Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti, said: "It was hard. My childhood lacked structure, stability and consistency. You want to place blame on people, but I don't think it's fair. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. You can let that be your downfall or a springboard to become something better."For me, I just thought, 'What a waste of time to be angry at my parents. What a waste of time to feel sorry for myself.' The best thing I can do is learn all the things I've learned from them, good and bad, have my own family someday and just keep on going. So many things are thrown at us as human beings, but you can't let any of them get you down, or you're just going to be defeated."After starring in classic sci-fi film 'E.T.' aged just seven, Drew started smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol by the time she was nine, smoking marijuana at 10, and taking cocaine at 12. Drew opened her heart about her childhood drug use in her 1990 autobiography, 'Little Girl Lost'.

I like her and depression sucks

Mandy Moore: I struggled with depression

Mandy Moore told Jane magazine her depression came on as if "someone had flipped a switch in me."

POSTED: 11:53 a.m. EST, January 23, 2007

Story Highlights• Mandy Moore: Though "positive person," was hit by depression• Says breakup contributed but not only reason• "Writing has been really therapeutic," she says

NEW YORK (AP) -- Mandy Moore has a lot going for her, including a starring role opposite Diane Keaton in the upcoming comedy "Because I Said So." Even so, she says she's grappled with depression.
"A few months ago I felt really low, really sad. Depressed for no reason," the 22-year-old actress-singer says in an interview in the February issue of Jane magazine, on newsstands Tuesday.
"I'm a very positive person, and I've always been glass-half-full," she continues. "So it was like someone flipped a switch in me. I wanted to figure out why."
Moore, newly single after high-profile relationships with actor Zach Braff and tennis standout Andy Roddick, says her recent split with Braff didn't help matters.
"The breakup added to what I was going through, but it's not the complete reason," she tells the magazine. "It definitely doesn't help if you're already in that place ... ."
Moore, who is working on a new record at a studio in Woodstock, New York, and feeling better for doing it, says writing songs "away from friends in L.A. or New York" is good for the soul.
"Writing has been really therapeutic," she says of her music. "These little nuggets that have come up over the past eight months have made me look at things in a different way."
Moore started out as a squeaky-clean teen singer and later crossed over into movies with featured roles in such films as "A Walk to Remember," "Saved" and "American Dreamz."
"I feel bad that people wasted their money on such trite, blah pop music," says Moore about her earlier music.
Moore has been looking inward a lot of late.
"I've been going through this really crazy time in my life -- it's what I imagine people fresh out of college go through," she says. "I'm asking myself life-altering questions, like 'Who am I? Where do I fit in this world? What am I doing, what do I want to do? Am I living to my full potential?' "

Happy thankgiving, Merry Christmas &Happy 2007

We I've been away from my blog for long time. I just haven't been in a writing mode. Lots to talk about but not wanting to write. Living in AZ again new job as an insurance guy going decently. My organizing job was more than worth all the time and money spent to get a democratic congress elected and working in California. Mari's doing great busting her butt to get her grad school apps done and out and were glad at the progress pilli is making in school she is very inventive and creative. Will probably blog time permitting and I think the Colts will win the super bowl.