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After transporting a Florida Woman to jail following her arrest on DUI charges at a McDonald’s drive-thru, cops discovered that she had an eight-pack of vodka stuffed in her bra, according to an arrest report. Responding to a 911 call about a “drunk female that is driving all over the drive thru,” police Monday night found Brandi Stanley, 31, behind the wheel of a Pontiac SUV idling outside the McDonald’s in Lady Lake, a town about 60 miles from Orlando. Stanley, who had been eating in the vehicle, smelled of alcohol, had glassy eyes, and her face was flushed, an officer noted. Additionally, when Stanley exited her car at the cop’s request, she swayed from side to side. After refusing to perform field sobriety tests, Stanley was handcuffed and placed in the rear of a police car. En route to jail, Stanley reportedly uttered, “Just take me home, let’s forget this” and “I’m so stupid I should know better.” Upon arriving at the county lockup, Stanley “continued to yell and scream” at cops, resulting in “several deputies assisting in removing the defendant from the vehicle.” It was only after Stanley was extracted from the cruiser that police located an eight-pack of Deep Eddy Vodka under her bra. One bottle was missing from the pack, cops reported. While court filings do not indicate the size of the individual vodka bottles, physics dictates that they were 50-milliliter nips [how approppriate!] , the shot-size serving associated with airplane imbibing. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/sites/default/files/assets/brandistanley21.jpg Pictured above, Stanley was charged with a pair of misdemeanor DUI counts. After a night in jail, Stanley was released from custody after posting $2000 bond. She is scheduled for an April 19 plea negotiation conference in Circuit Court.

After transporting a Florida Woman to jail following her arrest on DUI charges at a McDonald’s drive-thru, cops discovered that she had an eight-pack of vodka stuffed in her bra, according to an arrest report. Responding to a 911 call about a “drunk female that is driving all over the drive thru,” police Monday night found Brandi Stanley, 31, behind the wheel of a Pontiac SUV idling outside the McDonald’s in Lady Lake, a town about 60 miles from Orlando. Stanley, who had been eating in the vehicle, smelled of alcohol, had glassy eyes, and her face was flushed, an officer noted. Additionally, when Stanley exited her car at the cop’s request, she swayed from side to side. After refusing to perform field sobriety tests, Stanley was handcuffed and placed in the rear of a police car. En route to jail, Stanley reportedly uttered, “Just take me home, let’s forget this” and “I’m so stupid I should know better.” Upon arriving at the county lockup, Stanley “continued to yell and scream” at cops, resulting in “several deputies assisting in removing the defendant from the vehicle.” It was only after Stanley was extracted from the cruiser that police located an eight-pack of Deep Eddy Vodka under her bra. One bottle was missing from the pack, cops reported. While court filings do not indicate the size of the individual vodka bottles, physics dictates that they were 50-milliliter nips [how approppriate!] , the shot-size serving associated with airplane imbibing. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/sites/default/files/assets/brandistanley21.jpg Pictured above, Stanley was charged with a pair of misdemeanor DUI counts. After a night in jail, Stanley was released from custody after posting $2000 bond. She is scheduled for an April 19 plea negotiation conference in Circuit Court.

A man accused of trying to sell an ancient marble statue has been arrested by Greek police. On Friday, authorities said that an unnamed suspect had been trying to sell the artifact, a 5th-century B.C. statue, for 100,000 euros ($119,000). He was arrested Wednesday in the southern town of Corinth, about 50 miles west of Athens. The statue was turned over to the Greek Ministry and Sports Culture by the Attica police, according to the Greek Reporter. “It is an exceptional work of art, of the kind not easily found, not even in systematic excavations,” archaeologist Dimitris Sourlas said during a presentation at police headquarters in Athens, The Associated Press reported. The statue, measuring about 37 centimeters (14.5 inches) high, portrays a seated young male, but his head, arms and a large portion of the legs are missing. According to police, it likely adorned a temple on Athens’ Acropolis or the slopes around it. Investigators said that the artifact was recovered after a months-long investigation that involved the police and the country’s Cultural Heritage and Antiquities Department. Attica Security Police chief Petros Dzeferis said that the recovery was among a number of successful cases carried out by the collaborative effort. Authorities are now trying to determine how the statue came into the suspect’s hands, and whether he has succeeded in finding a buyer. Images released by the police suggest that statue was buried for a long time. It also shows possible damage potentially caused by digging tools, according to the AP. It is against the law to buy, sell or excavate antiquities without a permit in Greece.

A man accused of trying to sell an ancient marble statue has been arrested by Greek police. On Friday, authorities said that an unnamed suspect had been trying to sell the artifact, a 5th-century B.C. statue, for 100,000 euros ($119,000). He was arrested Wednesday in the southern town of Corinth, about 50 miles west of Athens. The statue was turned over to the Greek Ministry and Sports Culture by the Attica police, according to the Greek Reporter. “It is an exceptional work of art, of the kind not easily found, not even in systematic excavations,” archaeologist Dimitris Sourlas said during a presentation at police headquarters in Athens, The Associated Press reported. The statue, measuring about 37 centimeters (14.5 inches) high, portrays a seated young male, but his head, arms and a large portion of the legs are missing. According to police, it likely adorned a temple on Athens’ Acropolis or the slopes around it. Investigators said that the artifact was recovered after a months-long investigation that involved the police and the country’s Cultural Heritage and Antiquities Department. Attica Security Police chief Petros Dzeferis said that the recovery was among a number of successful cases carried out by the collaborative effort. Authorities are now trying to determine how the statue came into the suspect’s hands, and whether he has succeeded in finding a buyer. Images released by the police suggest that statue was buried for a long time. It also shows possible damage potentially caused by digging tools, according to the AP. It is against the law to buy, sell or excavate antiquities without a permit in Greece.

A crewmember on ABC's The Conners died Thursday after suffering a medical emergency on the show's set. The man, whose identity is being withheld, was working on the show's stages at CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles when he suffered a "fatal medical event," per a statement from The Conners producer Werner Entertainment.

A crewmember on ABC's The Conners died Thursday after suffering a medical emergency on the show's set. The man, whose identity is being withheld, was working on the show's stages at CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles when he suffered a "fatal medical event," per a statement from The Conners producer Werner Entertainment.

Netflix’s ‘Country Comfort’ may sound like ‘The Nanny,’ but reminds Katharine McPhee of ‘The Sound of Music’ Give Fran Fine of “The Nanny” a drawl and some cowboy boots and you’ve got Netflix’s new comedy series, “Country Comfort.” The show centers on a down-on-her-luck wannabe singer, Bailey (Katharine McPhee), who stumbles upon a ranch and ends up getting hired as a nanny for a cowboy and his five kids, each with enough quirks to drive every other nanny out of town. It’s a well-known premise, and showrunner Caryn Lucas even got some of her first writing credits on “The Nanny” in the late ’90s. But McPhee found more familiarity in “The Sound of Music.” “She’s a less-gracious Julie Andrews,” the 36-year-old actress joked to the Daily News. “She needs a new job and he needs a new nanny so they’re kind of forced into each other’s lives.” “Country Comfort,” premiering Friday, finds Bailey on the worst day of her life, dumped by her boyfriend and kicked out of their band all in one go. So she brings her mayhem to cowboy Beau (Eddie Cibrian) and his family, which is still reeling from the death of his wife and their mother several years ago. All of the predictable hijinks ensue: a jealous girlfriend, a runaway daughter, a horny teenage boy. It’s silly and simple and sweet. LeAnn Rimes, Cibrian’s real-life wife and country singer, even appears in a few scenes. “I don’t know if it’s going to be one happy family,” Cibrian, 47, told The News. “You’ve always got to throw a wrench in every now and again. There’s going to be struggles. But I think you’re going to see this family grow and learn from each other and heal each other.” But where “The Nanny” was dropped into Manhattan and Queens and “The Sound of Music” sent Maria yodeling through the Austrian hills, “Country Comfort” calls the South home, full of horses and handsome bachelor cowboys and twangs. Cibrian, a California native, not only had to learn the accent but then coordinate pronunciations with the five young actors playing his children, Ricardo Hurtado, Jamie Martin Mann, Pyper Braun, Shiloh Verrico and Griffin McIntyre. Los Angeles-born McPhee, who played a Southerner in “Waitress” on Broadway in 2018, had a bit of a jump-start on her drawl, but she had an added challenge, singing with the accent too. Bailey, a failed musician who hasn’t given up yet, knows how to do little but sing. “They hired a girl from the Valley, this is what they get,” she laughed at her accent efforts. For Bailey’s chaotic speeches, usually made up of defenses, pleas and insecurities, McPhee found it helpful to go more high-pitched. “More nasal,” the “Smash” star said, the same description often used to describe “The Nanny” star Fran Drescher. The first four episodes of “Country Comfort” were filmed in front of a live studio audience before the COVID-19 pandemic made that untenable. What’s left is a story about a family searching for a savior and a woman searching for a home. “This last year has been so crazy on so many levels in every way,” McPhee said. “Going to work was such a breath of fresh air for us. It was a real haven. So we hope that the show is that as well.”

Netflix’s ‘Country Comfort’ may sound like ‘The Nanny,’ but reminds Katharine McPhee of ‘The Sound of Music’ Give Fran Fine of “The Nanny” a drawl and some cowboy boots and you’ve got Netflix’s new comedy series, “Country Comfort.” The show centers on a down-on-her-luck wannabe singer, Bailey (Katharine McPhee), who stumbles upon a ranch and ends up getting hired as a nanny for a cowboy and his five kids, each with enough quirks to drive every other nanny out of town. It’s a well-known premise, and showrunner Caryn Lucas even got some of her first writing credits on “The Nanny” in the late ’90s. But McPhee found more familiarity in “The Sound of Music.” “She’s a less-gracious Julie Andrews,” the 36-year-old actress joked to the Daily News. “She needs a new job and he needs a new nanny so they’re kind of forced into each other’s lives.” “Country Comfort,” premiering Friday, finds Bailey on the worst day of her life, dumped by her boyfriend and kicked out of their band all in one go. So she brings her mayhem to cowboy Beau (Eddie Cibrian) and his family, which is still reeling from the death of his wife and their mother several years ago. All of the predictable hijinks ensue: a jealous girlfriend, a runaway daughter, a horny teenage boy. It’s silly and simple and sweet. LeAnn Rimes, Cibrian’s real-life wife and country singer, even appears in a few scenes. “I don’t know if it’s going to be one happy family,” Cibrian, 47, told The News. “You’ve always got to throw a wrench in every now and again. There’s going to be struggles. But I think you’re going to see this family grow and learn from each other and heal each other.” But where “The Nanny” was dropped into Manhattan and Queens and “The Sound of Music” sent Maria yodeling through the Austrian hills, “Country Comfort” calls the South home, full of horses and handsome bachelor cowboys and twangs. Cibrian, a California native, not only had to learn the accent but then coordinate pronunciations with the five young actors playing his children, Ricardo Hurtado, Jamie Martin Mann, Pyper Braun, Shiloh Verrico and Griffin McIntyre. Los Angeles-born McPhee, who played a Southerner in “Waitress” on Broadway in 2018, had a bit of a jump-start on her drawl, but she had an added challenge, singing with the accent too. Bailey, a failed musician who hasn’t given up yet, knows how to do little but sing. “They hired a girl from the Valley, this is what they get,” she laughed at her accent efforts. For Bailey’s chaotic speeches, usually made up of defenses, pleas and insecurities, McPhee found it helpful to go more high-pitched. “More nasal,” the “Smash” star said, the same description often used to describe “The Nanny” star Fran Drescher. The first four episodes of “Country Comfort” were filmed in front of a live studio audience before the COVID-19 pandemic made that untenable. What’s left is a story about a family searching for a savior and a woman searching for a home. “This last year has been so crazy on so many levels in every way,” McPhee said. “Going to work was such a breath of fresh air for us. It was a real haven. So we hope that the show is that as well.”

I don't. Minnesota family pleads for return of granny’s cross-stitch heirloom sold during estate sale A mix-up at an estate sale sent a precious piece of one Minnesota’s family history out the door — grandmom’s giant cross-stitched map of America — and now they’re desperate to find it. It took Rae Elizabeth Kellgreen more than a year to painstakingly create the item — a 3-foot by 2-foot-tall cross-stitch of the United States. The work includes every state and every capital except Topeka, which was left out by accident, her grandson, Tyler Redden told KSTP. If a cross-stitcher makes a mistake, they have to start over, so Kellgreen had started the project with the East Coast “because she knew that was going to be the hardest part,” Redden said. “If she was going to mess up, it was going to be over there. So she started stitching it from the top right and kept going down, knowing that it would get easier as she went,” Redden said. Kellgreen completed the work in 1990 and wanted to submit it to the state fair until she realized she’d left out the capital of Kansas. So the work hung in her living room until her death in August. It was accidentally sold during a subsequent estate sale for just $10. “This cross stitch is so important to my family,” the grandson told the station. “It was the piece that, you know, the centerpiece in her living room for the three decades before she passed.”

I don't. Minnesota family pleads for return of granny’s cross-stitch heirloom sold during estate sale A mix-up at an estate sale sent a precious piece of one Minnesota’s family history out the door — grandmom’s giant cross-stitched map of America — and now they’re desperate to find it. It took Rae Elizabeth Kellgreen more than a year to painstakingly create the item — a 3-foot by 2-foot-tall cross-stitch of the United States. The work includes every state and every capital except Topeka, which was left out by accident, her grandson, Tyler Redden told KSTP. If a cross-stitcher makes a mistake, they have to start over, so Kellgreen had started the project with the East Coast “because she knew that was going to be the hardest part,” Redden said. “If she was going to mess up, it was going to be over there. So she started stitching it from the top right and kept going down, knowing that it would get easier as she went,” Redden said. Kellgreen completed the work in 1990 and wanted to submit it to the state fair until she realized she’d left out the capital of Kansas. So the work hung in her living room until her death in August. It was accidentally sold during a subsequent estate sale for just $10. “This cross stitch is so important to my family,” the grandson told the station. “It was the piece that, you know, the centerpiece in her living room for the three decades before she passed.”

Who were some of the has-bens? Affleck? Gazzara? Kingsley? Stiller? Gentle?

Who were some of the has-bens? Affleck? Gazzara? Kingsley? Stiller? Gentle?

I don't know... I remember seeing a film with Gene Kelly that I was told is a classic, and I know is universally considered to have one of the top 10 scores of all time, and I just laughed and cringed all the way through it.

As flawed as the film version is, I love HARD CANDY XMAS by Dolly & the Whores.

What an appropriate screen name for the poster of this comment:

No, not too badly. At least not that I remember... unless their parenting was so bad I've blocked it all out. :oops:

DEAR ABBY: I have a 22-year-old daughter from my first marriage and a 9-year-old son with my husband of 12 years. My husband is 57, and I just turned 41. I would like to have another baby, mainly because I want my 9-year-old son to have someone to grow up with. We have no other family. It's just him and girl cousins, ages 9 and 5. Can you please advise me if my husband and I are OK or too old to have one more child? — CONSIDERING IT IN THE WEST DEAR CONSIDERING: I'm glad you wrote. This is something that should be discussed further with your husband to make sure you are on the same page, and also with your OB-GYN. If your intention is that your children grow up together, this is something that should have happened years ago. As it stands, the 10-year age difference will mean your son will be grown and gone while your younger child is still at home. A doctor with a specialty in genetics could be helpful as you gather information. It is important that you understand what precautions might be wise to take before making this decision.