I don’t know what that is but I’m sure Ashley Judd would be able to tell me. It is sad, of course, when a marriage ends. Sometimes when a marriage ends, it’s also smug. Not us, but them. Ashley Judd and Dario Franchitti announced their separation yesterday. They released this statement which she ostensibly wrote herself because she is so erudite: "We have mutually decided to end our marriage. Full Story

In 1998, Ashley Judd walked across the stage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in a white dress slit waaaaay up and a flower by her ear and it became an Oscar moment. People still wonder whether or not she flashed the Academy. Back then Ashley Judd was an It girl. Back then they talked about Ashley Judd the way they talk about Jessica Chastain. Full Story

A few years ago, there was an article floating around about Ashley Judd being the most “erudite” celebrity on the list of Erudite Celebrities. Is it because she’s so well educated? Perhaps. But I wonder if it isn’t because she wrestles you down on the ground with her big words and mashes them in your face until you concede. Full Story

Written by Sasha Hi Sasha, I’m 23, and have been off on my own working overseas for about a year now, in a place that's very VERY small. A little over a month ago I met MM, who had just moved here doing just about exactly the same thing I'm doing. Full Story

Ashley Judd was out promoting her memoir at Barnes & Noble in New York yesterday and, like Nicole Kidman and Uma Thurman before her (examples here and here) had more people talking about her makeup than they did her book which, I mean, she is really, really taking it to her family, specifically her mother, but is she also as candid about her own, um, mercurial moods? Anyway, about this powder situation… I mean obviously it’s not like, oh let’s make it so that it’s really noticeable and everyone will see and talk about it. Full Story

Have received a lot of email the last couple of days about Ashley Judd’s face. She’s out in the open right now because she’s promoting her memoir All That Is Bitter & Sweet. A lot of explosive revelations about childhood abuse and how sh-tty it was growing up in that family. She’ll also be on Who Do You Think You Are on Friday. Full Story

So Ashley Judd is studying at Harvard. She’s enrolled in the Mid-Career Master in Public Administration program and isn’t waiting for frosh week to pass before pulling celebrity rank. This time though she’s using the faculty and not her mute stones. According to Boston.com Full Story

Ashley Judd attended the World Youth AIDS gala last night wearing this. What is that? Why is that? Why would anyone wear that? Ashley’s career has slowed down dramatically the last few years since she married – perhaps by choice but also by reality. Head to head among her peers like Julianne Moore or Laura Linney, Naomi Watts, Salma Hayek, Halle Berry, Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett, my Gwyneth, Renee Zellweger (and the list goes on and on and on) the truth is how would Ashley Judd ever out-act any of those ladies just mentioned? Her next feature is Tooth Fairy with The Rock…B List At Best, right? And then there was that curious little trip to rehab for emotional problems. Full Story