Famous faces: Baldwin, daughter back on good terms
March 14, 2008
TMZ and the Daily Mail report Alec Baldwin and his daughter Ireland, 12, have reconciled. We know this because a paparazzo photographed a beaming Ireland sitting next to her dad in a car.
Baldwin shocked parents around the world in April when an angry, insulting voice mail he had left his then-11-year-old daughter was leaked on the Net. Baldwin was peeved that Ireland did not answer the phone. “You answer or you get hit with a brick,” he said during the two-minute harangue, in which he called her a “rude pig.”
Jamie Lynn Spears focusing on studies
Jamie Lynn Spears has passed her GED high school equivalency exam. According to an anonymous source, Britney’s lil’ sis might even take the ACT college entrance test. Jamie Lynn did especially well in reading comprehension.
“People don’t know her. When she gets something in her head, she’ll make it happen,” the source said.
Cuban writer wins top literary prize
Cuban writer Antonio Orlando Rodriguez is the winner of this year’s Alfaguara Spanish literary prize for his novel Chiquita. The award, which includes a prize of $175,000, is one of the most prestigious in the Spanish language.
A total of 511 works were considered, the Alfaguara publishing house, which organizes the prize, said Monday. Rodriguez, born in Ciego de Avila, Cuba, lives in the U.S.
