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[October 4th, 2006] KID ROCK Local 12-year-old and Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls alum Una Rose was recently chosen to appear in an HBO documentary, The Music in Me (which will air in early October), about American kids who are good enough musicians to make even grown-ups jealous. Una, a student at Da Vinci Arts Middle school, plays guitar and writes politically charged rock songs for her band Blübird about "issues that are facing the whole world that we need to pay attention to." One such issue is global warming, which has Una singing, "Be friendly to the earth; it will be friendly back/ Global warming: it's not just a prediction anymore." Cheery. When Scoop spoke with Una, she told us that while she plans to continue playing music, "rock star" is not her career of choice. "I want to be a pastry chef ," Una explains. Kids.

EXTRA CREDIT Sean Penn , William Hurt and Marcia Gay Harden will descend on the Reed College campus Saturday, Oct. 7, to film Penn's new movie, Into the Wild. The film, based on the bestseller by Jon Krakauer , tells the story of a boy who travels through the Alaskan wilderness and eventually dies of starvation in an abandoned bus . How will that action be filmed amid the brick buildings and bookworm students that decorate Reed's grounds? It won't be. Penn is only planning on filming happier bits like a commencement scene at Reed. However, he will use about 600 students and professors as extras for the movie, which will be released next year.

TRASH-TASTIC Portland's Miss White Trash 2006 was crowned Saturday from a brain trust of tube-topped contestants at Dante's. The winner: a twentysomething Portland-born car wreck known only as "Neeko ," who stole the judges' hearts (including Pepe Raphael of Pepe & the Bottle Blondes and WW's own arts editrix, Kelly Clarke) with her fashion sense—visible thong undies and a pack of Kool cigarettes tucked into her stained white strapless bra—and the vacant, lascivious stare of the inbred. Neeko, who likes "fried food and men with scars," may be the real deal. According to pageant co-organizer and Jesus Presley bandleader Reverend Tony Hughes , the lovely lass was arrested last year after Miss White Trash '05 when she "exposed herself in public as the police drove by." This year, Neeko's male companion (name unknown) was kicked out of Dante's for getting in a fight before the pageant even started . Now that's what Scoop calls Method acting. Check out misswhitetrash.com for more photographic carnage and details on next year's pageant.

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