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(Matt Sayles / AP)

1.	As the Hollywood machine abandons L.A., its supporting workers struggle
2.	Armstrong stays in 3rd as Tour leaves Pyrenees
3.	Restrict calories, increase life span? Not so easy
4.	Lesnar, St-Pierre claim victories at UFC 100
5.	The end of Obamania

Thursday: The day in photos

Running with the bulls in Pamplona

Remembering Michael Jackson

Military operation in Afghanistan's Helmand province

Fans mourn Michael Jackson

Child Stars: Blessed or Messed?

By Deborah Netburn, Times Staff writer

Fergie

Stacy Ferguson joined the cast of “Kids Incorporated” in 1984 when she was 9 and stuck around for six seasons. Fast-forward twenty years later and she has a successful solo career, a gig promoting Candies, and a spot in the inexplicably successful band Black Eyed Peas. But there was a meth addiction in the intervening years that she blamed on her time as a child actor.

Bottom line: She’s rich now, but she’s earned it.