Wow...who knew George Lucas read my blog? After pointing out last year that Whale Rider's Keisha Castle-Hughes looked, in her Maori face-paint, like Natalie Portman qua Queen of Naboo, now I find out that she is cast as the new Queen of Naboo in Episode 3. Just slap a "CSA" after my name.

NYT: Philip Roth's Newark." When I read `Portnoy's Complaint,' everything was familiar to me," Judge Kirsten said. "I gave it to my mother, and she said, `I can't understand why such a nice Jewish boy would write such a dirty book.' Philip wrote a letter to her and told her that his bark is worse than his bite.