Emma Watson is one of the most famous young actresses in the movie business.

But according to interviews she was quite nervous this month, about appearing in a free play at her school, Brown University.

Watson is the star of the Harry Potter movies, seen by hundreds of millions of people around the world, but performing for a small audience of her fellow college students felt like a special responsibility to her.

Luckily she was a big hit, and got a huge ovation from the audience. Perhaps she has a future on in Broadway shows, i'm sure she'd sell lots of theater tickets if she were on the big stage.

Emma Watson 'Nervous' About Kissing
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Harry Potter star Emma Watson was 'nervous' about performing in a free play for students at her university. The 19-year-old actress may have been paid a massive £20million for the last two Potter movies but got the jitters before performing in the play Three Sisters for students at Brown University However, Watson's fellow students were so impressed with her performance, they gave her a standing ovation...

Emma Watson 'Nervous' About Kissing

How is Donna Simpson paying for her quest to become the world's fattest woman?

She's paying for it with a website, where men pay to see her in all her morbidly obese glory!

In one of the stranger twists in this strange story, Simpson is apparently popular among men who find extremely overweight women attractive.

Her boyfriend seems to be supporting this unhealthy pursit, but others are deeply concerned for her health, and for the expense of state money and resources that will go into keeping her alive while she goes for the fattest woman record. Not to mention the issues around her raising a young child while going on this escapade of morbid obesity.

Donna Simpson Fattest Woman Website Men Pay
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An obese mother in the US is trying to put on weight in order to become the world's fattest woman. Donna Simpson, from New Jersey, weighs 273kg but told the Daily Mail newspaper she had her heart set on reaching her goal weight of 1000lb (450kg) in two years. The 42-year-old already holds the title of the world's fattest mother after giving birth to her daughter in 2007 when she weighed 241kg. "I'd love to be 1000lb ... it might be hard though, running after my daughter keeps my weight down," Ms Simpson told the Daily Mail...

Donna Simpson Fattest Woman Website Men Pay

As Donna Simpson goes on her unfortunate mission to become the world's fattest woman, she is eating many different kinds of food, and many many servings of each one.

But her favorite food of all may come as a surprise. Not burgers, not pizza, but sushi!

Sure she eats lots of junk food too, but she says her favorite is the high-class raw fish.

Her boyfriend seems to be supporting this unhealthy pursit, but others are deeply concerned for her health, and for the expense of state money and resources that will go into keeping her alive while she goes for the fattest woman record. Not to mention the issues around her raising a young child while going on this escapade of morbid obesity.

Donna Simpson: Favorite Food Sushi
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"I do love cakes and sweet things, doughnuts are my favourite," she said. Ms Simpson said she also loved eating sushi and would often eat 70 big pieces in one go. Her 49-year-old partner Philippe -- who she met on a dating site for plus-size people -- was encouraging her to reach her goal, she said...

Donna Simpson: Favorite Food Sushi

Donna Simpson has been in the news lately, for all the wrong reasons.

Donna is very overweight, at at over 400 pounds and possibly as much as 600, but she is not satisfied with this level of obesity.

She is hoping to break the 1,000 mark, and officially become the World's Fattest Woman.

Simpson says she is happier being overweight, and enjoys the attention she gets from men, and from people who "enjoy watching her eat."

She apparently is being urged on in this dangerous endeavor by her boyfriend, who thinks it is a cool idea?

But many others are concerned for her health, as well as for the expense of state money and resources that will go into keeping her alive while she goes for the fattest woman record. Not to mention the issues around her raising a young child while going on this escapade of morbid obesity.

Donna Simpson: World Fattest Woman (To Be)?
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An obese mother in the US is trying to put on weight in order to become the world's fattest woman. Donna Simpson, from New Jersey, weighs 273kg but told the Daily Mail newspaper she had her heart set on reaching her goal weight of 1000lb (450kg) in two years. The 42-year-old already holds the title of the world's fattest mother after giving birth to her daughter in 2007 when she weighed 241kg. "I'd love to be 1000lb ... it might be hard though, running after my daughter keeps my weight down," Ms Simpson told the Daily Mail...

Donna Simpson: World Fattest Woman (To Be)?

Leanne Salt is in the Guinness Book of World Records, but not for a reason most people would be proud of.

Ms. Salt is the current record holder for the world's fattest mother, after giving birth to triplets despite her extreme obesity.

May in her home country of England have issues with her situation, because of the huge expenditure of resources required to let her give birth successfully.

But Leanne Salt is sure she did the right thing.

She says "I knew it was a risk to myself and the babies because of my weight, but I had faith in the doctors. It's amazing that all four of us have come through."

World's Fattest Mother Leanne Salt
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JUMBO mum Leanne Salt has become the fattest woman in the world to give birth to triplets. A enormous 68-strong team of medics weighed in to deliver 40-stone Leanne's three healthy babies. And the total bill to the NHS added up to a hefty £200,000-four times the normal cost of a triplets pregnancy...FOUR anaesthetists were needed to administer an epidural to numb the lower half of her body because a general anaesthetic could have killed her...

World's Fattest Mother Leanne Salt

As we battle to bring health care to all American people, one patient is making news for trying to expand health care even further, as he walked into the ER on four legs, seeking health care for dogs!

A dog in New Mexico limped in to the local hospital after getting injured in the neighborhood, somehow knowing the hospital was the place to go.

The dog was taken to a local animal shelter, and eventually reclaimed by its owner.

The veterinarian stitched him up, and said he was probably attacked by another dog.

Hospital staff say the dog was calm and friendly, and very smart to come there for help even though they couldn't really treat him there.

Hurt Dog & New Mexico ER
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The patient was only slightly injured when he limped into a hospital in the northwest New Mexico city of Farmington. The only problem was, he was a dog. When the automatic doors at San Juan Regional Medical Center's emergency room slid open Saturday night, the pooch walked in, blood on his nose and paw, and a puncture hole in one leg.

Hurt Dog & New Mexico ER

A principal in Wisconsin has angered many parents by positing the names of his students that were failing, on his office door.

The Principal says he was trying to inspire them to work harder and step it up, and he says this was a success.

But parents say this was unfair embarrassment and shame to their children

According to some parents who spoke out publicly posting these grades violated federal law, as well as humiliating the kids.

The principal says that of the hundred students on the list, half of them turned in homework that had been due, because of the list he posted.

Principal posts 'F' List
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A middle school principal in Wisconsin is under investigation after he posted the names of students with failing grades on his door. Marshfield Middle School Principal Dave Schoepke posted a list with student's name, their class, teacher and their F grade for all to see. Principal Schoepke says his goal was to get his students to turn in their assignment or projects in order to attend tonight's school dance.

Principal posts 'F' List

Is General Petraeus running for President in 2012?

Rumors have been flying about the esteemed General running for the White House, after a report surfaced that he was making a commencement address at the University of Iowa in 2010.

Iowa of course is a state candidates always court early on, as it is a key early bellwether in all presidential primary campaigns.

But representatives of the General say these rumors are purely fiction.

A statement from CENTCOM said: "Contrary to several recent blogs, General David Petraeus, the Commander of the US Central Command, has not been asked to speak at a university commencement in Iowa in 2010 and has no plans to do so. It us unclear where this rumor started, but it is not accurate".

Petraeus 2012? (VIDEO)
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Michael Goldfarb joked Friday that Gen. David Petraeus was giving a commencement address at the University of Iowa in 2010, igniting a storm of pickups over the weekend, a lot of e-mail from hopeful Republicans, and finally a very direct disavowal from CENTCOM...

Petraeus 2012? (VIDEO)

Kirstie Alley is making big media push to promote her new diet plan, but some have questions about her diet and where it really comes from,

Critics are questioning whether Kirstie Alley's diet company, Organic Liaison, is actually a front for the Church of Scientology, of which she is a member.

Kirstie says these claims are bogus though, and insists her diet plans are very real and legitimate.

The former cheers star has battled publicly with her weifght for years, and used to represent Weight Watchers, but gained back the over 75 pounds she had lost while on that program.

She has also starred on reality TV documenting her weight loss efforts. How anyone can consistently keep weight off after a diet is a much-discussed topic, that still has no easy answers or solutions.

Kirstie Alley & Diet
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Kirstie Alley has hit back at reports her new weight loss program will fund Scientology teachings, insisting the accusations are "not true." The former Weight Watchers spokeswoman recently launched Organic Liaison LLC after years of battling her size under the glare of the spotlight. Members pay between $10 and $149 per month to follow the regimen, which combines an organic food diet with vitamins and supplements.
Kirstie Alley & Diet

An 11 year old boy named Marcelas Owens has become a leader in the fight for health care reform, as he speaks out on behalf of his mother who passed away.

Marcelas lost his mom to pulmonary hypertension, a chronic health condition that led her to lose her job.

After losing the job she no longer had health insurance, leaving her unable to get the care she needed for this condition.

Now Owens is speaking out and letting the world know about his story, before the historic health care reform vote this week.

Marcelas said: "I don't want any other kids to go through the pain that our family has gone through. My grandma and I want Barack Obama and Congress and everybody to come together and to help get the health care bill passed." For more see below:

Marcelas Owens: Mother
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Marcelas Owens, an 11-year-old from Seattle, headlined a press conference with Senate Democratic leadership on Thursday, telling a packed room of reporters that he wanted the president and Congress to come together and pass health insurance reform. "I am here because of my mom," said Owens. "My mom was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension in 2006. She missed so much work she lost her job. And when my mom lost her job, she lost her health care. And losing her health care ended up costing her her life..."

Marcelas Owens: Mother

A major recall of food products just keeps getting bigger, with the list not containing 10,000 products that are being recalled.

The products in the recall are all food items containing HVP, aka hydrolized vegetable protein, a substance added to many many different foods and snacks.

"10,000 products" Containing HVP Recalled
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Salmonella contamination at a Nevada food-flavoring plant may trigger the recall of as many as 10,000 products, according to a Consumers Union scientist. PepsiCo Inc. joined Procter & Gamble Co., Nestle SA and McCormick & Co. yesterday in recalling food containing hydrolyzed vegetable protein, or HVP.

"10,000 products" Containing HVP Recalled

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Did the Subway secretly experiment with LSD in the NY subway?

For decades people have speculated about the CIA dosing people on the subway with LSD, without their knowledge.

But most dismissed it as a conspiracy theory, not believe the government would use citizens for this type of medical experiment, giving them drugs without them knowing.

Now though, new documents suggest the theory might actually be true.

An FBI documented recently uncovered, from 1950, says "The BW [biological weapon] experiments to be conducted by representatives of the Department of the Army in the New York Subway System in September 1950, have been indefinitely postponed,"

CIA: Subway LSD?
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On Nov. 28, 1953, Frank Olson, a bland, seemingly innocuous 42-year-old government scientist, plunged to his death, written off as an unremarkable suicide of a depressed government bureaucrat who came to New York City seeking psychiatric treatment, so it attracted scant attention at the time. But 22 years later, the Rockefeller Commission report was released, detailing a litany of domestic abuses committed by the CIA. The ugly truth emerged: Olson's death was the result of his having been surreptitiously dosed with LSD days earlier by his colleagues...

CIA: Subway LSD?

The popular Proactiv skin care products are now being made available in the mall direct from a vending machine!

If you have problems with your complexion, you no longer have to call up the number on the TV commercials, you can simply put your money right into the vending machine and start clearing up your acne and getting fresh clean skin.

At least if the product works the way P Diddy says it does, I've never tried it myself. For more info, see below.

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Some local malls around the country now have a Proactiv stand, with sales people there to sell you their skin care product. And other malls have an actual Proactiv vending machine. You put your money or credit card in and get Proactiv skin products from it... If the machine broke down without you knowing it you could be out of a lot of money...

Proactiv Vending Machines!

Fans in Brazil reportedly did not take it so well when the news broke that Guns N' Roses were cancelling shows there.

In fact they took so badly, they reportedly started a riot!

In Sao Paolo concertgoers began rioting when it was announced that the Guns N Roses show would not go on as planned, and similar incidents have been reported in other places as well.

This sign was posted in Riop, where a show had to be cancelled for safety reasons after a stat collapsed, leaving people who bought Gun N Roses Concert tickets in the lurch.\:

"ATTENTION: The March 14th GUNS N' ROSES show in Rio De Janeiro at Apoteose Stadium has been officially canceled for this evening due to the stage collapsing because of heavy rains"

Guns N' Roses Riot
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Guns N' Roses had the weekend for hell down in South America. First on Friday they were linked to a riot after they failed to show up for a "secret" show they previously denied was even happening. Then they were forced to cancel Saturday's show due to a stage collapse. When reports of several Latin American "secret" Guns N' Roses shows hit the news wires, the GNR camp were quick to deny that these shows were happening...

Guns N' Roses Riot

Up until now word around Hollywood was that John Krasinski was in line to play Captain America.

But now another actor already a proven movie actor, says he is aiming for the part too: Ryan Phillippe!

Many have suggested John Krasinski, who is best known for playing the shaggy haired lovable goofball on The Office, might not really be the best actor for this action hero role.

Would Ryan Phillippe do better with it? He seems to think so, and says he is a longtime fan of the Marvel comic. I didn't know that comic had any fans.

I like Krasinski But i agree this part doesnt seeem ideal for him. I'd like to see Matt Damon, or maybe Will Smith? In this new age maybe it's time to switch things up a bit.. maybe even make it a woman! A captain doesn't have to be a man , after all. Angelina, you out there?

Captain America: Krasinski? Phillippe?
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The pool of leading Hollywood men reportedly up for the role of Captain America -- a crew so diverse it has at one time included funnyman John Krasinski and action-flick vet Chris Evans -- has grown by one. MTV News has exclusively confirmed that Ryan Phillippe will audition for the part. During a conversation at the South by Southwest music and film festival on Monday (March 15), the 35-year-old Phillippe himself revealed that he's set to audition for what would be the lead role in "The First Avenger: Captain America..."

Captain America: Krasinski? Phillippe?