Michelle Lee

You’re going to meet someone who was born in 1968, and he’s going to be the love of your life. If you [mess] it up, you’re never going to get a second chance.” That bold prediction was made by a self-professed psychic Michelle Lee encountered two years ago at a cocktail party. A few minutes later, Lee, who was born in 1981, struck up a conversation with a handsome stranger named Brian Gilbert. She told him what the psychic had said. “No way am I going to date a man that old,” she added.

You’re going to meet someone who was born in 1968, and he’s going to be the love of your life. If you [mess] it up, you’re never going to get a second chance.” That bold prediction was made by a self-professed psychic Michelle Lee encountered two years ago at a cocktail party. A few minutes later, Lee, who was born in 1981, struck up a conversation with a handsome stranger named Brian Gilbert. She told him what the psychic had said. “No way am I going to date a man that old,” she added.

UCLA Live recently canceled its well-regarded international theater festival, but Calabasas would like to point out that UCLA didn't have a lock on that concept. The city near the southwestern San Fernando Valley is holding its second annual California International Theatre Festival from July 17 to 25. The visiting companies aren't of the same stature as those that UCLA attracted, but they are diverse. The Orto-Da Theatre Group of Israel will perform its work "Stones," Theatre Newfoundland Labrador of Canada presents "Tempting Providence" by Robert Chafe, and Conor Lovett of Gare St Lazare Players Ireland will perform an adaptation of the Samuel Beckett short story "The End."

UCLA Live recently canceled its well-regarded international theater festival, but Calabasas would like to point out that UCLA didn't have a lock on that concept. The city near the southwestern San Fernando Valley is holding its second annual California International Theatre Festival from July 17 to 25. The visiting companies aren't of the same stature as those that UCLA attracted, but they are diverse. The Orto-Da Theatre Group of Israel will perform its work "Stones," Theatre Newfoundland Labrador of Canada presents "Tempting Providence" by Robert Chafe, and Conor Lovett of Gare St Lazare Players Ireland will perform an adaptation of the Samuel Beckett short story "The End."

THE movie she's in is "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," but Michelle Lee's career is only beginning. In addition to the third installment of "Pirates," which opens today, the unmarried martial-arts expert has two more films coming out this year, "Trailer Park of Terror" and "Dead Reckoning." While Lee's looks haven't hurt her career, hard work has played a major role too. In fact, she's a self-described self-improvement junkie. Read on if you want to feel lazy and inadequate.

The suspected drug overdose death of a 15-year old girl who attended a massive rave in Los Angeles last weekend has drawn attention to the drug her family was told was found in her body: Ecstasy. Officials said use of the hallucinogen and stimulant was widespread among the scores of partygoers taken by ambulance to emergency rooms from the Electric Daisy Carnival, which was held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and surrounding Exposition Park, attracting 185,000 people over two days.

A heart transplant candidate from Louisiana who was unable to find a doctor willing to perform an abortion in her home state had the procedure done in Texas. Louisiana State University Medical Center and other hospitals refused to cover the abortion for Michelle Lee, 26, who has a weak, irregular heartbeat that makes pregnancy dangerous for her and the fetus. Her condition wouldn't allow her to have the operation at a clinic.

Re Paul Brownfield's "An Issue For the Ages" (Oct. 16), in one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's elderly movies, he is reported by my son-in-law to have said, "You are a funny guy.... That's why I'm going to kill you last." Fran Zimmerman, 64 San Diego Saw Paul Brownfield's column. I reserve this for only the best: really funny, really funny. Do this more often. From a girl who doesn't even like sports. Christin Michelle Lee Playa del Rey

Actors Lucille Ball, Carol Channing, Bonnie Franklin, Albert Hague, Shirley Jones, Michelle Lee and Rita Moreno; producer Lawrence Kasha ("Knot's Landing") and conductor Peter Matz have joined the advisory board of Musical Comedy/L.A., UCLA's resident professional production company. The board, which is co-chaired by comedian Carol Burnett and Emmy-award winning director George Schaefer, oversees the company's goal of encouraging interest in musical comedy. Musical Comedy/L.A.

Actors, athletes and recording artists urged Americans to swear off drinking for an "Alcohol-Free Weekend" April 3-5 in an event sponsored by the National Council on Alcoholism. April has been designated National Alcohol Awareness Month, and the council said that one in 10 American adults is an alcoholic. It attributes about 100,000 deaths yearly to alcoholism.

THE movie she's in is "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," but Michelle Lee's career is only beginning. In addition to the third installment of "Pirates," which opens today, the unmarried martial-arts expert has two more films coming out this year, "Trailer Park of Terror" and "Dead Reckoning." While Lee's looks haven't hurt her career, hard work has played a major role too. In fact, she's a self-described self-improvement junkie. Read on if you want to feel lazy and inadequate.

For the most part, My Favorite Weekend is a big snore. Could these celebrities possibly be more mundane in their taste? If one took all the references to chain restaurants and stores, one could reconstitute an entire mall. However, every so often you score. For instance, Belinda Carlisle's weekend had nothing cookie-cutter about it. And this week Michelle Lee saves us. Ranch 99, Rage and MacArthur Park too! Though it would have been nice if the opening paragraph had included some of the fabulous Asian movies she has been a part of. Her career is not beginning with "Pirates of the Caribbean."

The FBI said it is seeking public help in nabbing two armed robbers believed to have held up 42 Southern California banks since May. One, dubbed the "Big Brush Bandit" for his thick, drooping mustache, has fired into a ceiling and, in one case, shot at a teller, but the handgun misfired, said Jim Neilson, an FBI spokesman. The gunman is believed to have held up 19 banks throughout the Los Angeles area--the last on Nov. 1, Neilson said.