Hollywood on court again by Claudia Sonea

It seems like the beautiful life of the bold and the beautiful inhabitants of Hollywood is committed into showing us that the core is actually rotten. There are so many shows and news in the media about how the celebrities are spending their day to day lives and proves us they are no better than us or happier, sometimes they are much worst. No one is surprised anymore hearing that an actor was caught cheating, taking drugs, entering into a fight or driving under the influence of alcohol. Still this type of articles is sold in an instant. Why? Because we love knowing everything about the people that entertain us and give us hope there is a fairytale land somewhere out there. So for most of you that love Kiefer Sutherland, an Emmy and Golden Globe Award winning television and film actor, well known for his role of Jack Bauer on the television series 24, this will be a terrible piece of news: he will serve 30 days in a county jail. This was the result of a plea agreement that involved him to plead no contest to the allegations of driving with a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit. In his behalf at the process attorney Blair Berk entered the plea and arranged to go to an alcohol-education class for a period of 18 months and also to attend weekly alcohol sessions for six months. This was not his first misdemeanor charge, Sutherland being under probation for a 2004 drunken driving arrest, but Superior Court Judge Stuart M. Rice revoked the probation in that case. All his trouble comes from a last month event at a traffic stop in Los Angeles. Luckily for him- and I think it is something more than simple luck- the charge of driving under influence was dropped. Another thing that makes as gasp in surprise is that the sentence was set for 21 December, when the winter break of the show 24 begins. Isn't it good to be an inhabitant of Hollywood? Law begins and ends where your fame and reputation begins and ends.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071009/ap_on_en_tv/kiefer_sutherland;_ylt=Am8AjkvAwv2h7Z5GgKexhQms0NUE

by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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