THE LEFT LANE
Losers aren't cool
Advertiser Staff
Losers aren't cool
Jack Osbourne took a close look at his friends and realized he didn't want to turn out like them — and that's when he checked himself into rehab.
Jack Osbourne
The 17-year-old son of rocker Ozzy Osbourne, whose family is the center of MTV's reality series "The Osbournes," returned home June 18 after two months of treatment for alcohol and drug abuse. He entered a hospital in Pasadena, Calif., after an epiphany he had while partying with pals.
"I took myself out of the picture for a second and I looked around at every single person in the room — at who they were, how old they were and what they had going on in their lives," Osbourne said. "A lot of them were near 30, unemployed, living off their parents. There were heroin addicts; they were the world's biggest couch potatoes. And it was like, 'I don't want to be like that.'"
Marriage-wreckers
Low self-esteem can trigger a self-fulfilling prophecy for people who take the blame for their partner's unhappiness, psychologist Sandra Murray says in the journal "Personal Relationships."
Murray, social psychologist at the State University of New York-Buffalo, says self-doubt can make people unwittingly sabotage their relationships. Spouses with low self-esteem tended to misread cues from their partners and underestimate the amount of love their partners said they felt in the relationship.
Blonde blitz is back
Blonde is big this summer, thanks to the healthy, hefty tresses of Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods in "Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde."
Attending to those tresses in a cameo role is celebrity hair stylist and frequent Hawai'i visitor Frédéric Fekkai. Fekkai helps Woods get fluffed and buffed as she takes on the Senate.
Frédéric Fekkai
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Fekkai are partnering on the film, so you'll see lots of Fekkai hair products on the shelves of the salons Woods frequents.
Witherspoon also is keeping her locks camera-ready with Fekkai's Baby Blonde shampoo. Fekkai products are sold in Hawai'i at Neiman Marcus and Sephora.
Note the flowers in the movie-set salon: totally island-style tropical, with bird of paradise, protea and ginger.
