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Anne Hathaway doesn't exactly fit the profile of young Hollywood today. She went to Vassar, religiously reads The New Yorker and gives up things for Lent. (This year it was Starbucks, chocolate and gossip.) She apologizes for being a "boring" interview, when what she's really acknowledging is she doesn't have any stories of ill-spent nights at Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel or in Brett Ratner's babe-cave. She blanches at a story about a Jane Austen relative who said (not really, the quote was taken completely out of context)

Bucky Lasek, dressed like a typical skateboarder in a plaid button-up and khaki pants, is in disguise. "I just grew this beard and mustache," said Lasek, pointing to his scruffy facial hair. "I think that's why people don't recognize me. " Over lunch at Costas Inn in Dundalk - Lasek's hometown - nobody seems to recognize the man who is usually a local celebrity. Lasek, who visits home once or twice a year, hasn't lived in Maryland since 1998, when he moved to Encinitas, Calif., a suburb of San Diego.

Popular Fox Broadcasting Co. television programs, the Super Bowl and a flood of political advertising helped boost first-quarter net income for Sinclair Broadcast Group, the Hunt Valley-based company said yesterday. The broadcasting company reported net income of $16.4 million for the three months that ended March 31, turning around a $2.3 million loss reported in the first quarter of 2007. On a per-share basis, earnings were 19 cents compared with a loss of 3 cents in the prior year. TV station broadcast revenues grew 8.5 percent, to $161 million, in the first quarter from $148 million in the corresponding period of 2007, the company said.

On the Web * For $3.99 a month, PumpPredictor.com provides text information to consumers, via cell phone or e-mail, about when to fill up, when to not pay more than a certain price and when to purchase as little gas as possible, based on ZIP code. Sample alert to The Baltimore Sun's ZIP code Thursday: "Gas is going down. Buy only a quarter tank if needed. Pay no more than $3.49 in BALTIMORE, MD." The site says it brings to consumers the techniques of market timing and inventory management that large commercial fuel buyers like gasoline distributors use. The site says it relies on the same statistics, mathematical modeling and market volatility variables used by pricing managers at oil companies to calculate price changes that trickle down to stations.

1. Any commercial that references The Godfather has got to rate high. The Audi spot goes to a mansion's bedroom with a man waking up to pull back the blankets and find sheets covered in oil and the torn-off grill of a car. He unleashes a blood-curdling scream. Not sure I'm buying an Audi because of it, but entertaining. 2. Feel that beat of "What Is Love." Look at the bobblehead dolls, then the people's heads bobbing as they start to doze off. Until they drink Diet Pepsi Max. Then everyone is in the old Saturday Night Live sketch, bobbing along energetically to the Haddaway hit. SNL alum Chris Kattan shows up at the end to tell everybody to stop it. 3. Peanuts, get your peanuts.

Jared Gaither, 21, is set to make his second career start at left offensive tackle Sunday against the Buffalo Bills. But the football phenom was a two-sport star who still yearns to play basketball. You were a Division I recruit in basketball who had orally committed to South Carolina before deciding to concentrate on football. Do you miss basketball? Yeah. We have guys like Chad [Steele, the team's director of media relations who was a power forward at Winthrop] who think they can play basketball.

Five Below chain due in Columbia Five Below, a national retail chain that markets products priced between $1 and $5, has signed leases for three new locations: Gateway Overlook in Columbia, Crossroads Square in Westminster and Festival at Bel Air in Bel Air. The stores will open simultaneously during a grand opening weekend that begins June 1. The Philadelphia-based chain operates 56 stores in Delaware, New Jersey Pennsylvania and Virginia, as well...

This is part of a series of 2012 Maryland football commitment Q&As leading up to Signing Day on Feb. 1. All answers are provided by the featured player. Name : Amba Etta-Tawo Birthdate : Nov. 10, 1993 Birthplace : Muscat, Oman Hometown : Atlanta Height : 6-3 Weight : 180 Position : Wide Receiver Nickname : None High School : McEachern High in Powder Springs, Ga. Senior statistics : 58 receptions for 907 yards and six touchdowns Rankings : Rivals.com - Three-star prospect.

In his senior year of high school, Jared Rhine took his first full time job at a restaurant - the family-run Italian restaurant Rillo's in Carlisle, Pa. He started as a busboy, did food preparation and washed dishes before eventually moving to the back of the house as a cook. "I loved it so much; I've never looked back. " Now, the Butchers Hill resident, 31, is going into his sixth month as executive chef at Mount Vernon's City Cafe. Rhine has been busy preparing some new items on his menu for Baltimore Restaurant week (Friday through Aug. 5)