The 30-year-old star of Girl Interrupted, was picked up by Beverly Hills police at around 7 p.m. Wednesday after security guards at the swanky Wilshire Boulevard store purportedly nabbed her during a five-finger shopping spree. Police say she was caught with several articles of clothing and hair accessories, worth about $5,000.

Ryder was arrested and booked on charges of felony grand theft and possessing pharmaceutical drugs without a prescription. The actress was released from custody just after 11:30 p.m., after posting $20,000 bail.

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Not long ago, Winona Ryder made it to the headlines because of her health problems: she was hospitalized in August due to a strange infection which she was shooting Lily and the secret planting. Her parents flew to accompany her, and she was replaced by Kate Winslet. Shortly before that, Winona had confessed during an interview for Elle Magazine that she suffered from constant panic attacks. "Sometimes I'm afraid to be home alone, to go out, to be in contact with others," she admitted.

Clarín and E! online, December 14, 2001.

INTERVIEW TO LUIS MIGUEL

"I've considered giving up singing"

He travels with a 70-people-crew, he rents entire hotel floors, he goes around in a limo... Here comes the other Luis Miguel, the one that has confessed to Clarin not knowing any other way of life but nevertheless being tired of the pressure.

"I launched my career when I was 12. I exchanged being a child for grown-up responsibilities, but I have no regrets. My life and my career have been amazingly interesting. It's been an intense journey". He often swears his personal life and his career are nearly the same thing.

"Sometimes I get tired of the pressure. There have been two or three times when I was about to quit - when things get mixed up, my personal life, the tours, the records. I don't mean retiring, but I have actually considered giving up singing".

He also said:

"It's a big effort and it deserves to be acknowledged, but it's also a choice; and once you've chosen you must face the consequences".

"If I hadn't become a singer, I would have been a fisherman".

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW TO BRAD PITT

"I'm sick of watching myself in the movies"

He assures he's planning to take a year off, that being harassed puts him off, and that he shouldn't receive so much attention.

William Bradley Pitt, born in December 18 1963 in Oklahoma, is undergoing a phase when he feels he must stop and make some decisions. This is how he puts it: "I'm sick of watching myself in the movies, it's high time I reinvented myself one way or another".

-What is it that you're looking for?

-New goals, other ways to go. Some actors are great at repeating themselves and they show us someone we feel like watching time and time again. I don't believe I'm one of them.

-So now you're taking a year off.

-That's right. That film is not going to be shot and I haven't found anything more appealing that staying home till next July, unless something small turns up before.

-Will you do nothing until then?

-I'm working on a construction project now. I love designing. It's a community at the beach. The first one was too expensive, so now I'm trying to use prefabricated materials.

-Which one is your favorite among all the characters you've played?

-I like them all for different reasons, but the one I like the most is my character in Being John Malkovich, because that was when I was best used. I played myself!

Both articles were featured in Clarin, December, 2001.

Said by Perry Farrel, former Jane´s addiction

"In Jane´s I used to be young and alive, now I'm more focused on spiritual things than on the flesh. I don't feel that hormonal urgency you have when you're getting ready for reproduction anymore. I don't feel nostalgic about that state at all. (...). I used to think only about me and my teenage body. Now I also think about the others. Three years ago my son's birth changed my life and I understood that the Earth is a place I must take care of, because he's going to inherit it".

"I feed better and I've quit hard drugs. I've learnt a lot by reading religious books, the Koran, the Bible, the Thora, the Cabala, Budism, and now I want to share it everybody else".

Clarin, December 21, 2001.

Here is an Elton John's statement about quiting his singing career...

Said by Robbie Williams, singer and actor

"Just like any other jerk, I care a lot about what people thinks (...)
I believe I've reached a moment when I can finally be sincere, but the greatest of my worries is I don't know how to be sincere anymore".

"My life is like the Truman Show. Everybody knows when and where I'm moving, or what I have for breakfast every morning. My perception of reality is completely distorted. The media is constantly wondering how real I am. But I'm not too real. I'm a showman, the entertaining industry's result. And that's alright".

"I don't want to stop being famous. That's my job. I was given this terrific possibility and I must learn to control it. There aren't any lessons to teach you how to be famous, nor self-help groups for celebrities. Well, there are. They're called award ceremonies".

Radar, December, 2001.

Translation by Carolina Friszman