About Andrea Dana
Andrea Dana joins the Sweetspot team to give her insightful opinions on what’s happening in the sweet world of entertainment. Andrea has worked in the film industry for the past five years as a tutor to Hollywood’s world famous and upcoming stars. She travels back and forth from Toronto to LA often. She is also an author and received high praise for her novel StarSitter, which is the first in an upcoming trilogy.
If you had told me five years ago that Kal Penn of Harold and Kumar fame would get a job at the White house before Oprah did, I’d have told you that when hell freezes over, when pigs fly, when the sun rises in the west and not in a month of Sundays would that ever happen. So on this twelfth day of never it has come to my attention that Kal Penn has taken a big-time pay cut and quit his “day job” as Dr. Lawrence Kutner on the show House M.D, so he can move to D.C and work for the Obama administration. Penn got to know the President and some of the staff during the campaign and had expressed interest in working there. He is going to be the associate director in the White House office of public liaison. They do outreach with the American public and with different organizations and are located at the front door of the White House. Here’s hoping that terrorists are huge fans of his which will result in no more assassination plotting against President Obama. Hey, I dream big.
In other Hollywierd news this week, apparently Kate Moss is writing a cookbook and the ingredients are real food and not just a hundred tasty ways to make water. According to the UK Mirror, “Kate, 35, has been inspired to put on her pinny by Stasha Palos – the step-daughter of her good friend the billionaire businessman Sir Philip Green. Mother-of-two Stasha has penned a cookbook of traditional Jewish meals made simple.” Actually, in the Jewish religion we call those “Jewish meals made simple,” making reservations.
Speaking of Oprah, looks like her and I have something in common after all. Neither of us is very good at controlling troublemaking kids at a private school. The fifteen girls who were suspended from Oprah’s Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa a few weeks ago for sexual harassment are saying that as punishment they were locked up in solitary confinement. They were not allowed to attend any
classes, communicate with anyone or enter the dining hall for meals. The parents of the girls received a letter stating: “You have been found guilty of physical contact of a sexual nature with another pupil on campus, harassment, bullying other girls on campus, and of being dishonest by not telling investigators the whole truth.” Man, are things different on this side of the world. The most I can get away with in terms of punishment for bad behavior is confiscating ipods, cell phones, blackberries, and laptops until recess and it’ll be a cold day in hell when any of that changes.