Actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio has rounded up a few friends to deliver a message to the U.S. Senate — stop dawdling on pollution control and climate change. “There is a bill in the United States Senate that we need to pay attention to,” says DiCaprio, the “Clean Energy, Jobs and American Power Act.” He’s filmed a series of videos and enlisted the support of actors Edward Norton, Forest Whitaker and Chace Crawford. “Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman, Justin Long and Emmy Rossum also take part. The stars address viewers in short commercials for what’s called the “This Is Our Moment” campaign.
As if it wasn’t enough that “24″ star Keifer Sutherland got burned for almost $1 million in a cattle scam, now he has PETA on his back. The animal rights group is leaning on Sutherland to stop trying to import Mexican cattle into the United States for commercial purposes. Ironically, PETA has praised the actor in the past because he and “24″ producers have used hybrid vehicles on the set and buy green energy for production work.
Brittany Murphy’s sudden death from cardiac arrest was –as long suspected — related to drugs, raising new questions about what her mother and husband know about her final days. The L.A. County Coroner has concluded the actresses’s passing was “accidental” due to “community acquired pneumonia,” iron deficiency anemia,” and “drug intake.” Murphy’s mother Sharon Murphy and husband, Simon Monjack, have repeatedly asserted that drugs were not a factor in her death. Singer Michael Jackson, actor Heath Ledger and celebrity Anna Nicole Smith have all died from prescription drug overdoses.
