Dream job with Reba turns out to be scam

Dream job with Rebaturns out to be scam
LANCASTER, Calif. -- A woman who allegedly posed as Reba McEntire's tour manager and persuaded a 77-year-old man to pay her $2,000 for a security job with the country singer has been arrested, officials said Monday.
Michelle Greene, 38, was arrested Saturday for investigation of fiduciary abuse of an elderly person after allegedly telling the man he should leave his job to go work for McEntire, according to officials with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
The man quit his job as a community aide for the sheriff's department after telling staffers his plans, said Detective Brad Feehan.
Investigators said the man called authorities after Greene failed to pick him up in the tour bus.
Feehan said a McEntire tour official told him Monday that Greene "does not work with Reba in any fashion."
The detective said authorities fielded calls Monday from nearly a dozen other people who said they were potential victims of the scam.
Mirren on Martha:difficult but wonderful
NEW YORK -- British actress Helen Mirren isn't shy about wanting to portray Martha Stewart if she had the chance.
"Absolutely. She must have amazing energy," Mirren told The New York Times.
The idea came up when it was suggested that Mirren's experience at playing Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth might give weight to Stewart, convicted last month of lying about a stock sale.
"I don't understand the vilification of Martha Stewart. She doesn't deserve Lady Macbeth. In a way, she's more like Rosalind from 'As You Like It.' She's mouthy, pushy and opinionated -- kind of wonderful and kind of difficult."
Johnny Depp exposes feelings in Playboy
LOS ANGELES -- Johnny Depp has thrived with roles as misfits, outcasts and loners in offbeat and uncommercial films. As the Oscar-nominated star of last year's $300 million blockbuster "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," Depp -- now 40 years old -- has finally emerged as a premier Hollywood star.
In the May issue of Playboy, the usually reclusive Depp opens up on a variety of topics.
UOn his drug use: "I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless. But I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous."
UOn acting: "I never really had an interest in it in the beginning. Nicolas Cage -- we had some mutual friends -- introduced me to his agent. She sent me to a casting director, and I auditioned for the first 'Nightmare on Elm Street.' I got the job. I was stupefied. They paid me all that money for a week. It was luck, an accident. I did it purely to pay the rent."
Today's birthdays
Actor Bradford Dillman is 74. Actor Jay Robinson is 74. Country singer Loretta Lynn is 69. Actress Julie Christie is 64. Former baseball player Pete Rose is 63. Rock musician Ritchie Blackmore is 59. Actor John Shea is 55. Actor Brad Garrett is 44. Actor Robert Carlyle is 43. Rock singer-musician John Bell (Widespread Panic) is 42. Rock musician Barrett Martin is 37. Actor Anthony Michael Hall is 36. Actor Adrien Brody is 31. Rapper DaBrat is 30. Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar is 27.