She's no Barbie girl

Oscar winner Helen Mirren says she used to snort cocaine, but stopped when she discovered that a Nazi war criminal may have benefited from the drug business. The 63-year-old British actress, who won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen," tells GQ she took the drug until her late 30s. She quit after learning that Klaus Barbie, who was captured in Bolivia in 1983, made money from cocaine. "I loved coke. I never did a lot, just a little bit at parties," said Mirren. "But what ended it for me was when they caught Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, in the early '80s. . . . I read that in the paper, and all the cards fell into place and I saw how my little sniff of cocaine at a party had an absolute direct route to this [expletive] horrible man in South America. And from that day I never touched cocaine again." (AP)

Johnny Depp put his old band, the Kids, back together for a fund-raiser in Florida over the weekend. With girlfriend Vanessa Paradis and their 9-year-old daughter, Lily-Rose, screaming in the crowd of 2,500, the actor strapped on a guitar and sang backup vocals during the 90-minute set. The Sheila Witkin Memorial Reunion Concert honors the band's late manager, who was well known in South Florida's music scene. All proceeds from the benefit go to the Dan Marino Foundation, which funds programs for children with special needs. (AP)

Jude Law is in Afghanistan to promote peace. With director Jeremy Gilley, Law is helping maintain momentum for Peace Day, an annual day on Sept. 21 urging a global cease-fire and nonviolence. (AP)

"He's digging on [Black] Sabbath and Deep Purple and all the music I loved as a kid." - Lars Ulrich, Metallica's drummer, on the musical tastes of his 10-year-old son, Myles