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If offered your meatloaf, I'd be out of there like a bat out of hell.

Haven't slept... was up all night planning how to spend my $4.50 windfall from Wheat Thins.

Mariska Hargitay is opening up about a family secret she’s kept for more than 30 years. At the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, May 13, the Law & Order: SVU actress, 61, revealed with the premiere of her documentary My Mom Jayne that her biological father is not Mickey Hargitay, the man who raised her and was castrated in an early episode of SVU, but rather a former Las Vegas entertainer named Nelson Sardelli. As Mariska explains in the documentary — which marks her feature film directorial debut — she first learned of Sardelli when she was 25. She confronted Hargitay, the only father she’d ever known, with the news, and after he insisted he was her father, the two never spoke of it again. But it left Mariska with many questions, wondering if she was Hungarian like her father and her brothers, Zoltan and Mickey Jr., or if she was really Italian like Sardelli. The actress opened up further about the revelation about her father in an interview with Vanity Fair. She told the outlet that she went to see Sardelli perform in Atlantic City, N.J., when she was 30 years old, and described his emotional reaction when she introduced herself. Moved to tears, he said, “I’ve been waiting 30 years for this moment.” But Mariska said she found herself giving him a tough time and going “full Olivia Benson on him,” referring to her SVU character. “I was like, ‘I don’t want anything, I don’t need anything from you.… I have a dad, ‘ ” she recalled telling him, explaining, “There was something about loyalty. I wanted to be loyal to Mickey.” She told Vanity Fair that after the momentous meeting with Sardelli, she grappled with “knowing I’m living a lie my entire life.” Sardelli, who is still alive and now in his late eighties, participates in the documentary, as do his other two daughters — Mariska’s half sisters. In the film, Mariska explains that, at 61 years old, keeping this a secret was no longer necessary. Mariska also has an older sister, Jayne Marie Mansfield, from her mother’s first marriage, as well as a younger brother, Tony Cimber, from her mother’s third marriage, both of whom are also featured in My Mom Jayne. The actress told Vanity Fair that once she eventually built a bond with Sardelli and his daughters, she better understood that her mother returned to Mickey because she knew he would love and provide a stable home life for Mariska. “I grew up where I was supposed to, and I do know that everyone made the best choice for me,” she said. “I’m Mickey Hargitay’s daughter — that is not a lie.” “This documentary is kind of a love letter to him, because there’s no one that I was closer to on this planet,” she noted. Mariska told Vanity Fair that she and her Sardelli sisters gathered together for a private screening of the documentary in Las Vegas, and recalled how they were overcome with emotion. “They just wept and wept and wept,” she said. “These two women that I love so much — I made them secrets! It’s so heartbreaking to me.” For Mariska, sharing her story with the world in the documentary was a way to “unburden all of us.” Following the film’s premiere screening at Cannes on Saturday, the audience gave a five-minute standing ovation. Mariska was joined at the event by her husband, Peter Hermann, and three kids.

Thank you, Ms. McGovern.

A Mexican navy sailing ship hit the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday during a promotional tour in New York City, the top of its three masts slamming into the iconic span and partially collapsing as the boat floated in the East River. The New York Fire Department press desk confirmed that authorities responded to injuries but had no details about how many people might have been hurt or whether they were on the vessel or on the bridge. In a scene captured in multiple eyewitness videos, the masts could be seen snapping and partially collapsing as they crashed into the deck of the bridge. Videos showed heavy traffic on the span at the time of the collision. The vessel, which was flying a giant green, white and red Mexican flag, then drifted toward the edge of the river as onlookers scrambled away from shore. Sydney Neidell and Lily Katz told The Associated Press they were sitting outside to watch the sunset when they saw the vessel strike the bridge and one of its masts snap. Looking closer, they saw someone dangling from high on the ship. “We saw someone dangling, and I couldn’t tell if it was just blurry or my eyes, and we were able to zoom in on our phone and there was someone dangling from the harness from the top for like at least like 15 minutes before they were able to rescue them,” Katz said. They said they saw two people removed from the ship on stretchers onto smaller boats. The Mexican navy said in a post on the social platform X that the Cuauhtemoc, an academy training vessel, was damaged in an accident with the Brooklyn Bridge that prevented it from continuing its voyage. It added that the status of personnel and material was under review by naval and local authorities, which were providing assistance. The Foreign Affairs Ministry said on X that its ambassador to the U.S. and officials from the Mexican consulate in New York were in contact with local authorities to provide assistance to “the affected cadets,” but it did not mention injuries. The Brooklyn Bridge, which opened in 1883, has a nearly 1,600-foot (490-meter) main span that is supported by two masonry towers. More than 100,000 vehicles and an estimated 32,000 pedestrians cross every day, according to the city’s transportation department, and its walkway is a major tourist attraction. The Cuauhtemoc — about 297 feet long and 40 feet wide (90.5 meters long and 12 meters wide), according to the Mexican Navy — sailed for the first time in 1982. Each year it sets out at the end of classes at the naval military school to finish cadets' training. This year it left the Mexican port of Acapulco, on the Pacific coast, on April 6 with 277 people onboard, the Navy said then. The Mexican consulate said May 13 on X that the Cuauhtemoc, also called the “Ambassador and Knight of the Seas,” arrived that day and docked at pier 17. It invited people to visit it through May 17. The ship was scheduled to visit 22 ports in 15 nations, including Kingston, Jamaica; Havana, Cuba; Cozumel, Mexico; and New York. It had also planned to go to Reykjavik, Iceland; Bordeaux, Saint Malo and Dunkirk, France; and Aberdeen, Scotland, among others, for a total of 254 days, 170 of them at sea.

So, will I get my life-altering $4.50 payout because my Wheat Thins weren't whole-grain? You are included in the Settlement if, you are an individual 18 years or older in the United States and U.S. Territories who, during the Class Period (as defined herein), purchased one of the Class Products in the United States for personal use, and not for resale or distribution. The Class Products that are included in the Settlement are: Original Wheat Thins, Reduced Fat Wheat Thins, Sundried Tomato & Basil Wheat Thins, Big Wheat Thins, Ranch Wheat Thins, Hint of Salt Wheat Thins, Cracked Pepper & Olive Oil Wheat Thins, and Spicy Sweet Chili Wheat Thins bearing the representation “100% WHOLE GRAIN” on the label.

Mariska Hargitay is opening up about a family secret she's kept for more than 30 years. At the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, May 13, the Law & Order: SVU actress, 61, revealed with the premiere of her documentary My Mom Jayne that her biological father is not Mickey Hargitay, the man who raised her and was castrated in an early episode of SVU, but rather a former Las Vegas entertainer named Nelson Sardelli. As Mariska explains in the documentary — which marks her feature film directorial debut — she first learned of Sardelli when she was 25. She confronted Mariska, the only father she'd ever known, with the news, and after he insisted he was her father, the two never spoke of it again. But it left Mariska with many questions, wondering if she was Hungarian like her father and her brothers, Zoltan and Mickey Jr., or if she was really Italian like Sardelli. The actress opened up further about the revelation about her father in an interview with Vanity Fair. She told the outlet that she went to see Sardelli perform in Atlantic City, N.J., when she was 30 years old, and described his emotional reaction when she introduced herself. Moved to tears, he said, “I’ve been waiting 30 years for this moment.” But Mariska said she found herself giving him a tough time and going "full Olivia Benson on him," referring to her SVU character. “I was like, ‘I don’t want anything, I don’t need anything from you.… I have a dad, ' ” she recalled telling him, explaining, “There was something about loyalty. I wanted to be loyal to Mickey.” She told Vanity Fair that after the momentous meeting with Sardelli, she grappled with "knowing I'm living a lie my entire life." Sardelli, who is still alive and now in his late eighties, participates in the documentary, as do his other two daughters — Mariska's half sisters. In the film, Mariska explains that, at 61 years old, keeping this a secret was no longer necessary. Mariska also has an older sister, Jayne Marie Mansfield, from her mother's first marriage, as well as a younger brother, Tony Cimber, from her mother's third marriage, both of whom are also featured in My Mom Jayne. The actress told Vanity Fair that once she eventually built a bond with Sardelli and his daughters, she better understood that her mother returned to Mickey because she knew he would love and provide a stable home life for Mariska. “I grew up where I was supposed to, and I do know that everyone made the best choice for me,” she said. “I’m Mickey Hargitay’s daughter — that is not a lie.” “This documentary is kind of a love letter to him, because there’s no one that I was closer to on this planet," she noted. Mariska told Vanity Fair that she and her Sardelli sisters gathered together for a private screening of the documentary in Las Vegas, and recalled how they were overcome with emotion. “They just wept and wept and wept,” she said. “These two women that I love so much — I made them secrets! It’s so heartbreaking to me.” For Mariska, sharing her story with the world in the documentary was a way to "unburden all of us.” Following the film's premiere screening at Cannes on Saturday, the audience gave a five-minute standing ovation. Mariska was joined at the event by her husband, Peter Hermann, and three kids.

I wanted the final one to have the truck launch right into the road sign over the highway and knock it down.

I learned something new in ShopRite yesterday. As the cashier was ringing up my small order, he asked me if I had an item with the brand name Amiga. I said that is the name of the company that makes the handicap cart and he laughed because that name had come up on the screen and he explained that most customers don't realize that every checkout lane has a scanner on the side near the bottom so that if any people "forget" (my quotes) that they have something on the bottom of their wagons below the basket that scanner will pick it up.

THAT THING BELONGS IN A CORRAL!

WOW! I didn't realize you have the hots for John Goodman.

I am so ashamed... how could I not have said "so GIDDYish"?

I'm sure you'll all be so excited you can't contain yourselves because Kelli Giddish is returning to SVU full-time next season.

Mark Ruffalo is taking criminals to task this fall on HBO. The network on Thursday released the first trailer for Task, the forthcoming drama created by Brad Ingelsby (Mare of Easttown), which premieres in September. The series is “set in the working class suburbs of Philadelphia,” where Tom (Ruffalo), an FBI agent, “heads a task force to put an end to a string of violent robberies led by an unsuspecting family man (Ozark’s Tom Pelphrey),” according to the official logline.

Good luck and have fun.

Strong season finale for a show I really love.

L.A. judge resentences Menendez brothers, giving them chance at freedom APPLE.NEWS Erik and Lyle Menendez received a chance at freedom after more than 35 years in prison Tuesday, with a...

Burger King to remodel 400 of its US restaurants in 2025, hundreds more to come

CBS News French actor Gerard Depardieu convicted of sexual assault Depardieu has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two women during the filming of Les Volets Verts (The Green Shutters) in Paris in 2021.

The Yankees plan to activate DJ LeMahieu from the injured list before tomorrow’s game against the Mariners, manager Aaron Boone told reporters (including Brendan Kuty of The Athletic). LeMahieu is already en route to Seattle but will not be active for tonight’s series opener. They’ll ease him back in, as he’ll be off the bench on Tuesday and draw into the starting lineup on Wednesday.

The apartment has been in the news many times since she died, and occasionally even before. It's been difficult to sell at the prices asked.

Patrick Dempsey (Grey’s Anatomy) has been tapped to lead the new Fox drama series Memory of a Killer, the network announced during its Upfront presentation Monday. Set to premiere sometime during the 2025–2026 TV season, the series is inspired by the 2003 Belgian film De Zaak Alzheimer (La Memoire Du Tueur). Dempsey stars as Angelo Ledda, “a hitman leading a dangerous double life, while hiding an even deadlier personal secret,” according to Fox. Spoiler alert: that “personal secret” is that Angelo develops early onset Alzheimer’s. This presents a number of complications for Angelo, especially as he juggles his two personas: “fearsome NYC hitman and sleepy upstate Cooperstown photocopier salesman and father." “Alzheimer’s is a foe he can’t outrun, and he knows too well how this ends, as his older brother is already lost to the condition,” reads the official logline. “Angelo is exceptionally resourceful and talented, the best of the best. But he’s about to be tested like never before — and now every minute counts. This is only made more difficult when he discovers that his wife’s recent death may not have been an accident. So, when someone comes after his daughter — who is pregnant — it’s clear the wall between his lives has been breached. Angelo must stop whoever’s coming for his family by searching his past hits for clues, and the list is very long.” The logline continues: “Now Angelo must hunt down his mortal enemy while continuing to carry out hits without giving away his diagnosis and still making it home in time to cook dinner for his daughter. Memory of a Killer is a redemptive story about a man who is losing his memory but gaining a conscience. Because Angelo knows he must stop history from repeating itself and save his family — before he forgets the past.”

A major fire in Maspeth over the weekend has renewed concerns about illegally parked RVs and weak city enforcement after flames from a street-side camper spread to the iconic GoodFellas Diner, causing extensive damage to a neighborhood landmark. The blaze, which started around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 10, originated from a parked RV and quickly spread to the old diner at 56-26 Maspeth Ave. Sixty firefighters responded to the scene, and two civilians were evaluated but declined medical treatment. The fire marked the second time in seven years that GoodFellas Diner has suffered a major blaze. Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels and a Republican mayoral candidate, was holding a fundraiser nearby at the time of the incident. He witnessed the fire and used the moment to criticize the city’s handling of illegal RVs. “We cannot have streets filled with RVs that people live in full time,” Sliwa said. “Lack of law enforcement makes life unsafe for all communities.”