By RACHEL LEIBROCK, Sacramento Bee

Linda Waits wants to help save the environment but, she admits, sometimes even the simplest fixes are easy to forget.The 52-year-old Sacramento, Calif., resident is actually doing well today -- she has remembered to bring her reusable grocery bags, giving herself an earth-friendly alternative to that enduring paper-or-plastic debate.

For Ryan Reynolds it's a timing thing.With the starring role in three major films this year -- including the current "Definitely, Maybe" -- Reynolds, 31, says he's happy to shift from playing the quirky funny guy to being a leading man.Not that he was in any sort of hurry for the change, mind you.

Just call Stephanie Conable the "perpetual bridesmaid." That's what her friends do.

No one really notices Ellen Page as she dashes through the lobby of a San Francisco hotel.