‘Roid Rage

• Following up on a couple of topics I’ve hit recently, my favourite still has to be Lost hard-ass Michelle Rodriguez. The pugilistic Rodriguez, who was arrested for drinking and driving last December, chose five days in the slammer over community service and has already served her time. When she was pulled over she yelled at the cops, at one point telling them” “Why don’t you just put a gun to my head and shoot me! You’ve already taken my freedom! You might as well take my life too!”

At her sentencing she blamed her behaviour on steroid injections she had been taking to treat allergies to dust and cockroach resin that made her manic. She also claimed to have learned all her driving skills at a car-racing school that she attended for a role. She must have impressed the casting director as much as the police as I don’t see anyone driving roles for her on IMDB. I wonder if she learnt her drunken belligerence for a role as well?

Anyway, word is Anna Lucia isn’t long for the island anyways, with rumours that her character’s grave has been spotted on the set.

• Sticking with Lost, creator J.J. Abrams has taken exception to rumours of his producing and directing the next Star Trek film, but didn’t really deny them.

"The whole thing was reported entirely without our cooperation," Abrams told Empire magazine. "People learned that I was producing a Star Trek film, that I had an option to direct it, they hear rumors of what the thing was going to be and ran with a story that is not entirely accurate." So will it be about a young Kirk and Spock? He wouldn’t say. With the kind of obsessive fans Lost has attracted and the legion of Trekkies in the world, how could Abrams not have expected the interest?

• Why is it that when US Weekly reports that Britney Spears is pregnant with her second child it is taken as truth, but when the multitude of gossip sites who had been speculating on her size for over a month claimed it, that was just a rumour? Just askin’.

Rodriguez Does the Crime, Does the Time

I can only hope that Michelle Rodriguez, who plays Lost tallie Ana Lucia, is taking character acting to a whole new level – because it’s hard to believe she could be such a cold-hearted diva.

Rodriguez pleaded guilty to drunk driving today and was given a choice: pay a $500 fine and spend five days in jail or do 240 hours of community service. She chose to do the time.

Her attorney, Steve Barta, described choosing to be locked away instead of helping the community as a “personal choice.

"I would suspect that because she has a hard time even going out for a meal without being intruded upon for an autograph or photograph, it's really difficult for her to do community service," he said.

Fans approaching her because they like her work are more oppressive than some hard time? Wow, she really is full of herself, isn’t she?

So has the show had enough of her carousing ways? There was specualtion back in February that producers, sick of her attitude, were ready to write her out as soon as possible. But exec producer Damon Lindelof says it won't happen. "It's all huff and puff and speculation. Lost's story is the star and no actor would ever be killed off for any other reason than supporting the story.

But as E! Online says, we'll see.

Method Actors

Are the actors on Lost taking their characters a little too seriously?

There are reports that Michelle Rodriguez, who plays the aggressive, hard-nosed ex-cop Anna Lucia, is enough like that in real life that the shows producers have had it with her.

"The producers are fed up with the fact that she barely shows up on the set and is always in a bad mood," Us Weekly quoted an "insider" as saying. "They said she was getting killed off as soon as they could write it in."

Rodriguez has been pulled over three times for speeding and once for drinking and driving since joining the cast as one of the Talies. How charming is she? This is what she had to say after being pulled over for weaving all over the road:

“I don’t fucking belong here! Why don’t you just put a gun to my head and shoot me! You’ve already taken my freedom! You might as well take my life too!”

Anyway, if Anna Lucia bites it in the upcoming war against The Others, led by dictator-in-the-making Jack, it will be ok with me. She gets on my nerves.

It looks like Rodriguez isn't the only one getting into her character. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, who plays reformed badass Nigerian drug lord Mr. Eko, read a prayer at the Hawaii state Senate last week. What did he read? The 23rd Psalm, which is also the title of the episode during which Eko's violent past and struggle for redemption are revealed.

So what's next? Matthew Fox (Jack) starts showing up in local emergency rooms and helping out and Evangeline Lilly (Kate) starts knocking over banks? We can only hope.