By Chuck Barney, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. May 4--God bless Amanda Lorber, a senior at Cypress Bay High School in Weston, Fla., who says "Journalists are the most important part of the world." Oh, a woman after my own heart. Say it loud and proud.

There still are people with an affection for newspapers. Some are actually young people. Perhaps "The Paper," a new reality series on youth-oriented MTV, will expand this base.

By Nirvi Shah, The Miami Herald Mar. 28--Journalists are usually the ones confined to the edges of the red carpet shouting questions to the stars.

Actor-writer Spalding Gray, who laid bare his life in a series of acclaimed monologues like "Swimming to Cambodia" while scoring big-screen success in "Kate and Leopold" and "The Paper," was confirmed dead on Monday.