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Jenny McCarthy was a guest on the Oprah and Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth Online Class. She spoke about her complex emotional reactions in raising her autistic son Evan.

"She was a woman of charm, style and wit, and will and savagery." That is a description of Anne Boleyn by author Susan Brigden. Natalie Portman portrays Anne in The Other Boleyn Girl, and says she saw the film as "a cautionary tale about capitalism. All of the characters who subscribe to these values of rising up and gaining power and who will step on anyone to get there are punished... I think it's very different to be ambitious and to be ruthlessly ambitious.." Asked about her own independence and ambition, she says, "It's definitely complicated. I bury it a lot."

Being different, an outsider, and called by others a nerd or other names, can be upsetting to downright painful when we were kids, but how does that kind of label impact our adult identity, and what does it indicate about social attitudes toward creatively and intellectually exceptional people?

The death of Heath Ledger - considered an accidental overdose of prescription medications - is another indication of how much drug use there is in the entertainment community.

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Information and links on how depression, bipolar, and other mood disorders impact creative expression.