'Office' star pleads guilty in minor drug bust

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Craig Robinson

Craig Robinson has built his career on making people laugh -- but on Wednesday, he found himself in a not-so-funny situation in the Bahamas. According to the Associated Press, the comedian was detained in the Bahamian capital Nassau for drug possession.

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Best known for playing Darryl Philbin on NBC's "The Office," Robinson, 41, was attempting to board a plane back to the U.S. when customs agents discovered he was carrying a small amount of marijuana and "suspicious" pills (later revealed to be ecstasy), Superintendent Stephen Dean of the Royal Bahamas Police Force told the AP. "It was nothing major," Dean said.

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Even so, Robinson was taken into custody and ordered to appear before a magistrate. He reportedly told the court he did not know that the drugs (which he brought from the U.S.) were illegal in the Bahamas.

After pleading guilty to two counts of drug possession, the "Hot Tub Time Machine" actor was fined $1,000 and ordered to leave the country. He could have faced up to four years in prison, the AP reports.

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Incidentally, this is not Robinson's first drug-related run-in with the law. Back in June 2008, he was arrested by Culver City, Calif., police on suspicion of possessing MDMA. Prosecutors charged him with two felony counts of drug possession and one count of being under the influence of illegal drugs; he later agreed to take drug education classes in exchange for the charges being dropped. 

Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/office-star-craig-robinson-pleads-guilty-minor-drug-bust-8C11374146
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Book News: Atwood Lauds Munro's Nobel Win, 'Furtive' Canadian Writers

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.

Margaret Atwood appeared at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California campus in April.

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Margaret Atwood appeared at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California campus in April.

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• Canadian author Margaret Atwood celebrates Alice Munro's Nobel win: "We're all slightly furtive, we writers; especially we Canadian writers, and even more especially we Canadian female writers of an earlier generation. 'Art is what you can get away with,' said Canadian Marshall MacLuhan, and I invite the reader to count how many of the murderers in Munro's stories are ever caught. (Answer: none.) Munro understands the undercover heist that is fiction writing, as well as its pleasures and fears: how delicious to have done it, but what if you get found out? Back in the 1950s and 60s, when Munro began, there was a feeling that not only female writers but Canadians were thought to be both trespassing and transgressing."


• Meanwhile, Munro's longtime New Yorker editor, Deborah Treisman, reflects on the process: "Editing Alice Munro's stories is sometimes a lesson in feeling extraneous." She added, "We don't so much read Alice's stories as live through them: they can be exhausting and enervating; they can leave us fragile, our senses heightened; they can leave us satisfied, thrilled. The saddest part is that they leave us at all."


• For two weeks next month, the fast-food giant McDonald's will distribute books instead of toys in its Happy Meals, as NPR's Maria Godoy reported Thursday. "But don't expect to find classics like The Very Hungry Caterpillar with your burger," she notes. The books reportedly were written for McDonald's by an advertising firm.


• DC Entertainment is launching a new weekly Batman comic, "Batman Eternal," in celebration of the 75^th anniversary of the winged vigilante. The comic will be written by Scott Snyder and others, and illustrated by Jason Fabok. Snyder tells The Associated Press that the comic will "set the stage for a new Gotham and new characters and a new set of stories that will take Batman into 2015."


• Some U.K. copies of the latest Bridget Jones book, Mad About the Boy, accidentally include 40 pages of David Jason's autobiography My Life. Publisher Vintage noted, "The printers have had a Bridget moment."

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/11/231987849/book-news-atwood-lauds-munros-nobel-win-furtive-canadian-writers?ft=1&f=1032
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