Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman has loved physics and astronomy ever since high school, and he asks the big questions of life, the universe and everything as the host of Science’s Through the Wormhole. If it happens in his lifetime, Freeman, 74, would not be opposed to becoming a citizen astronaut. Flying in space “would be kinda scary,” he says. “If I was going to go up to the space station, that’d be something I’d want to do. But just to run up to the edge of space and then drop back down, it doesn’t turn me on immensely.” . . . Although she may be on the big screen now in Larry Crowne, 
Maria Canals-Barrera, 44, often is reminded of the popularity of her TV series Wizards of Waverly Place. “I’ll be at the dentist’s office, sitting there in the chair, and the assistant comes in and she gives me this story, the prep and all of a sudden she says, ‘Can I get a picture with you?’ I’m like, ‘What? ! I look terrible. It’s 9 o’clock in the morning.’ ”
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