Living

The actress, who got her start at 11 years old on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is starring in Toronto director Sudz Sutherland's feature Home Again, about the plight of Jamaican deportees. We asked her four questions that had nothing to do with the film:

The embargo--undone by freewheeling cable--against profanity in TV, films and public speech seems, like the memory of a commerce-free Sunday, a quaint artifact of a bygone era. Never mind Breaking Bad; walk by any elementary school yard at recess and you’ll hear the kind of language that once wouldn’t have been out of place on the docks in a major port of call.

Two decades after Jagged Little Pill made her name, the indie star talks to us from her L.A. home - about her rapper hubby, being a mom and how she's still marching to her own beat

At the press conference for Argo, John Goodman may have fallen asleep. Yes, while he was on stage. It was hard to tell — he had his eyes closed for about three minutes, and he might have just been concentrating really hard on something located on the inside of his eyelids, but there's a good chance he was catching some z's.

We want to be thinner, smarter, younger, richer — or so we think. But at the very bottom of the well of human desire lays our deepest desire: to be happy. The question that plagues us, however, is how?