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A mosque buried its imam in the backyard — and a little Rockland County (NY) village almost died of shock. Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti, who founded the Jerrahi Order of America mosque in Chestnut Ridge, died at the age of 92 in February 2018. He was laid to rest behind the house of worship a few days later. And in May of this year, the faithful erected a grand monument made from imported Turkish marble. A bench was installed next to it. Etched into the marble tomb is one of the sheikh’s favorite sayings: “The most beloved of Allah’s servants are those who engender Allah’s love in his servants and their love in Allah.” The gravesite is the picture of tranquility. But it has not been a peaceful resting place.The issue of private burials has haunted the public discourse in this village of 8,000 souls ever since, with opponents — led by a retired FBI agent — saying backyard graves are public health risks and that village officials should never have OK’d one. “I don’t think that an incorporated village where people live next door to one another on small or large parcels of land should allow the burial of human remains on properties,” said Hilda Kogut, the ex-Fed and chairwoman of Citizens United to Protect Our Neighborhoods, who called the town policy a “shock to the system.” Embarrassed village officials soon claimed they tried to stop the burial, but didn’t have the legal authority to block it. The mosque, providing correspondence as proof, said it asked for permission from the village to bury their beloved imam, and received it. The mosque “did it against our respectful wishes,” Chestnut Ridge Mayor Rosario Presti insisted. The mosque’s current sheikh, Yurdaer Doganata, noted that the congregation followed “local safety codes and health regulations and used a traditional casket. It was a green burial and there were no chemicals used. The grave site was approximately six feet deep. A member of our community who is a licensed contractor performed the ground preparations.” The coffin was made from wood with no nails, he said. The state does not have a law against home burial and allows local governments to pass their own ordinances regarding the practice. Chestnut Ridge has no law on the issue. Such interments are safe, and not uncommon in others parts of the country, according to the Funeral Consumers Alliance. “The myth of contagion from dead bodies is one of the most persistent of the American funeral industry,” reads the alliance’s website. “There is no evidence, peer-reviewed or otherwise, to justify it.” Still, New Yorkers creeped out by the prospect of living among the dead, need not be; NYC forbids private, at-home burials. Mayor Presti said the village hopes to soon draft an ordinance that bans backyard burials. But the late shiekh’s followers will not have to worry about an exhumation. “You can’t unring that bell,” the mayor said.

http://68.media.tumblr.com/31862a67ba6f182387f23c31398839a6/tumblr_ohf7uuEXW01qekp69o1_250.gif http://68.media.tumblr.com/b2c41bf82a2b28731d2a48733e868ea9/tumblr_ohf7uuEXW01qekp69o4_250.gif http://68.media.tumblr.com/e54cadd40e72d4f446a9cf1a6c6627a6/tumblr_ohf7uuEXW01qekp69o3_250.gif Newlyweds Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner are reportedly mourning the loss of their dog Waldo — who was struck and killed by a car in Manhattan this week. A rep for Jonas told TMZ that the incident happened on the Lower East Side Wednesday while their dog walker was taking a stroll with Waldo. The pooch had been on a leash, but was “spooked” by a pedestrian and broke off, TMZ reports. The Jonas rep called it “a freak accident” — adding that the couple was very emotional afterwards and had to see a therapist. They filed a report with police on Friday, however, NYPD officials were unable to provide information about the incident when reached by The Post. Jonas and Turner reportedly got Waldo, a Siberian Husky, back in April 2018. Jonas had initially adopted his brother, Porky, but decided to take Waldo in as well. “Welcome to the family,” wrote Turner on Instagram. The slain pup had is own IG account — with over 45,000 followers. “Bruthuz,” reads his only post, which features a pic of Waldo and Porky staring at each other. Attempts to reach Jonas and Turner’s reps were unsuccessful on Friday night.

http://68.media.tumblr.com/31862a67ba6f182387f23c31398839a6/tumblr_ohf7uuEXW01qekp69o1_250.gif http://68.media.tumblr.com/b2c41bf82a2b28731d2a48733e868ea9/tumblr_ohf7uuEXW01qekp69o4_250.gif http://68.media.tumblr.com/e54cadd40e72d4f446a9cf1a6c6627a6/tumblr_ohf7uuEXW01qekp69o3_250.gif Newlyweds Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner are reportedly mourning the loss of their dog Waldo — who was struck and killed by a car in Manhattan this week. A rep for Jonas told TMZ that the incident happened on the Lower East Side Wednesday while their dog walker was taking a stroll with Waldo. The pooch had been on a leash, but was “spooked” by a pedestrian and broke off, TMZ reports. The Jonas rep called it “a freak accident” — adding that the couple was very emotional afterwards and had to see a therapist. They filed a report with police on Friday, however, NYPD officials were unable to provide information about the incident when reached by The Post. Jonas and Turner reportedly got Waldo, a Siberian Husky, back in April 2018. Jonas had initially adopted his brother, Porky, but decided to take Waldo in as well. “Welcome to the family,” wrote Turner on Instagram. The slain pup had is own IG account — with over 45,000 followers. “Bruthuz,” reads his only post, which features a pic of Waldo and Porky staring at each other. Attempts to reach Jonas and Turner’s reps were unsuccessful on Friday night.

Burglarizing bears raiding freezers for ice cream in Colorado homes A band of burglarizing bears is on the loose, breaking into homes and cars in and around Aspen, Colorado, while searching for sweets and homing in on ice cream. “They’re going after ice cream,” Snowmass Village Police Chief Brian Olson told The Aspen Times. “They’re predominantly going after sweets.” “They’re going straight for the fridge,” Aspen Police Department community service officer Ginna Gordon told the newspaper. She said the bears have busted into seven homes and two or more cars in Aspen this month alone. Some residents are fighting back, with one would-be robbery victim punching a bear in the face Tuesday when it tried to shove its head through his girlfriend’s screen, Gordon said. But that’s not all. The rogue bears have also broken into nine homes this month in nearby Pitkin County, the sheriff’s office wildlife officer told the newspaper. The main culprits seem to be two juvenile siblings, police said, but they are monitoring at least a dozen of the animals. Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials have been trying to trap the two main instigators, but cannot seem to entice them, said Kurtis Tesch, a wildlife officer. Residents are being warned to lock their cars and ground-floor windows and doors, and to bring in birdfeeders and pet food. “It’s gonna continue,” Tesch said. “Until we catch these problem bears, there will be a problem.” Bear breaks into car, drives downhill in Colorado BOULDER COUNTY, Colorado – A “delinquent bear” had a bit of fun in Boulder County this 4th of July, and it didn’t involve fireworks. The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office said a bear pulled open an unlocked driver’s doors and climbed in. Unfortunately for the bear – not to mention the owner of the car – the door closed behind the animal. The bear then worked on digging through all four doors, “but apparently butt-shifted the car into neutral.” The car then rolled back and off the driveway about 100 feet down the hill, and ended up sideswiping a tree before the car came to a full stop. That was enough for the car to prop a door open, and the bear left the scene of the crash on foot, or should we say… paws, in an unknown direction. The sheriff’s office said the image serves as a good reminder for people to lock their cars and remove all items that might attract a wild animal in bear country. Bear cub fed, used for selfies by tourists is killed by officials for becoming 'way too habituated' to humans A black bear cub was shot by wildlife officials in Oregon after multiple interactions with tourists caused the juvenile creature to become too habituated to humans, according to local authorities. The Washington County Sheriff's Office (WCSO) and the Oregon Department of Fish were first alerted to the young male cub's presence in Scoggins Valley Park near Henry Hagg Lake on June 4 through multiple phone calls and social media posts, according to the Salem Statesman Journal. The outlet reports that the 100-pound bear, which was between 2 and 3 years old, had been fed by and used for selfies by boating crowds who flocked to the lake all week long to enjoy the nice weather. WCSO took to Twitter on the evening of June 12 to warn park guests to stay away from a boat ramp that the bear was lingering near as they attempted to coax it back into the woods. About an hour later, the sheriff's office shared that their attempts had been successful and the cub had "wandered back into the woods." Wildlife biologists Kurt License and Doug Kitchen set out last week to trap and relocate the cub when they were informed the creature was on a nearby highway eating a mix of trail mix, sunflower seeds and cracked corn that visitors had left for it. When the pair approached the animal, it did not try to run away. "It was very clear that the animal was way too habituated," License told the Statesman Journal. "With that information, it was a human health and safety risk, and we had to remove it." On Friday morning, WCSO took to Facebook to share that the bear had to be killed as a "direct result of humans feeding and interacting" with it. "We're sad to report that the bear was "lethally removed" by the Oregon Dept. of Fish & Wildlife on Wednesday morning," it wrote. "Unfortunately, the wildlife experts say relocation wasn't an option for this bear. We are saddened by the outcome, but leave it to the experts when it comes to these kinds of tough decisions." Habituation happens when animals are exposed to the same unnatural stimuli so frequently that they eventually stop responding to it, according to the U.S. National Park Service. Although wild animals should have a natural fear of humans, many that are constantly exposed to people lose their fear and stop acting naturally around them, which frequently happens in heavily trafficked national parks like the Grand Canyon. When wild animals no longer see humans as a threat, they allow people to come very close to them, which can prove dangerous and sometimes fatal for both animals and people. Man in an Alaska village charged with federal crimes for allegedly killing polar bear and leaving it to rot for five months. Christopher Gordon of Kaktovik is accused of violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act after he allegedly shot and killed a polar bear around December 20, 2018. Gordon has been charged with knowingly taking a polar bear in a manner unlawful under the Marine Mammal Protection Act and with one count of wasteful taking of a marine animal. The US Fish and Wildlife Service led the investigation. Katkovik, with about 250 residents, is some 640 miles north of Anchorage. Officials say Gordon improperly stored whale meat in his front yard, which attracted the polar bear. Gordon allegedly shot and killed the polar bear for trying to eat the whale meat, not to defend himself or someone else. Investigators say the carcass sat in Gordon’s yard from late December until May, when a snow removal vehicle hit the bear’s body and tore off one of its legs. Under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, Gordon was allowed to harvest the polar bear for “subsistence or other purposes,” but not in a wasteful manner. Officials say he chose let the carcass rot, and he eventually took it to the Kaktovik dump to be burned without using any part of the bear for sustenance. Gordon faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine if convicted.

A man found a Egon Schiele drawing in a New York thrift store, and it could be worth a fortune A previously unknown drawing by Egon Schiele turned up in a Habitat for Humanity thrift store in Queens, New York, more than 100 years after the Austrian painter's death -- and it could sell for more than $100,000. Schiele made the pencil drawing of a reclining nude girl in 1918, the year he died of Spanish flu, said Jane Kallir, director of Galerie St. Etienne in New York, who published the first complete catalog of Schiele's watercolors and drawings in 1990. Schiele was part of Austria's expressionist movement and was mentored by Gustav Klimt. Kallir said a man contacted her last year after buying the drawing at the thrift shop, but the photos were too blurry for her to tell much about it. That happens all the time, she said. "We get hundreds of photographs a year, and most of them are fakes or copies or just misidentified as Schiele's work. We asked for better photos, and he took a year to get back to us." The next set of photos was better, and she asked the man to bring the drawing to the gallery. She wouldn't identify the man because he wants to remain anonymous. Kallir said that when she saw the piece in person, she was 99% sure that it was the real thing, but she took some time to compare it the Schiele's other work. "I wanted to see how this drawing fit with the other drawings," she said. "It fit perfectly, and I could almost pinpoint the modeling session from which it came, so then my initial gut was confirmed, and I said 'yeah, this is it.' " Schiele did about 20 drawings of this girl and her mother, and Kallir said two were probably made on the same day as this drawing. Those works are now in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Leopold Museum in Vienna, Austria. The drawing is now for sale in her gallery and on display as part of an exhibit called "The Art Dealer as Scholar." If it sells, the man who found the drawing plans to donate some of the proceeds to Habitat for Humanity New York City, Kallir said. "We are ecstatic!" Karen Haycox, chief executive of Habitat for Humanity New York City, told The Art Newspaper. "And, maybe a little bit in shock but ultimately really happy for all involved. "I can't help but think that were it not for the Habitat NYC ReStore, this piece of art history might have ended up in a landfill, lost forever." 'Like a piece of junk' Kallir says that TV programs like "Antiques Roadshow" and "American Pickers" give the impression that "there are treasures in every junk shop and every attic and every basement." That's not been her experience. "I've been doing this since the 1980s, and this is only the second time something like this has happened," she said. She says the man who found the drawing is a part-time art handler, picker and collector who has a good eye and got really lucky. Schiele's work wasn't particularly valuable until the 1970s, and Kallir said this drawing was put in a frame in the '60s. At some point, the date and his signature were cut off. "You're looking at something that, at that moment, wasn't worth all that much, that was framed in a manner that made it look like a piece of junk, so somebody gave it away without knowing what they had," she said. National treasure in Austria Kallir said that a lot of Schiele's work was brought to America by Jews and other Europeans fleeing the Nazis in the late 1930s and '40s, and more came in after World War II. But Schiele was virtually unknown in the United States, she said. "In Austria, where my grandfather had his first gallery, Egon Schiele is like a national treasure," she said. "He's one of the most famous artists of the modern period in Austria." Her grandfather started Galerie St. Etienne in 1939 after coming to New York as a refugee. "He devoted his entire life to studying this artist and making him better known, and when he passed away in 1978, I simply continued the tradition," Kallir said.

Steinway piano customers claim they were duped into ‘investment’ NY Post February 9, 2019 Angry buyers of Steinway pianos say they were duped by salespeople who told them the instruments would increase in value, though they actually plunge in price by 50 percent or more as soon as they leave the showroom floor, according to a report Saturday. Owners of the ultra-expensive instruments, which cost between $70,000 and $150,000 when new, said salespeople lied to them about what their pianos’ worth in the future, the Hatch Institute reported Saturday. Customers said they were shown charts of steadily rising prices for new models and were told that buying a Steinway made a better investment than Wall Street stock, the investigative journalism site said. One Steinway brochure, titled “Your Steinway Investment,” claims that “for more than a century and a half, every handmade Steinway has increased in value,” adding that their pianos were “an investment instrument unique in all the world.” But when owners tried to sell, they learned their Steinways were worth tens of thousands less than what they’d paid, even when the pianos were just months old or had never been played, the site reported. One customer never took home the piano she purchased for $78,000 in 2013 after she agreed to accept an inexpensive upright while paying down a layaway loan that pushed the total cost to $100,000. Kelly Kilrea made $68,000 in payments but when she could no longer afford them, she looked into selling the instrument, only to learn that she wouldn’t get more than about $33,000 from a used-piano dealer, which is what still owes Steinway. “I said, `Are you kidding me? How is that possible when it’s supposed to appreciate.’ It was in showroom condition.” The Steinway Gallery in Virginia, where she bought the piano and where it has remained all these years, then repossessed it. Kilrea is trying work out a deal to complete the sale, but she needs to borrow from a third party to pay off the loan. “They use the word investment,” said Ronen Segev, who owns Park Avenue Pianos, which buys and sells used Steinways. “Steinways go up in value. It’s part of the expectation. Then you look at the secondary market and you see what prices are. It really shocks people.” Company spokesman Anthony Gilroy conceded that Steinways “go down in value significantly right off the bat.” He said claims by salespeople that the pianos increase was “a very rare occurrence.” As for the brochure making that statement, he said he “pulled it months ago from the website.” But Hatch found it was still widely in use. Steinway, a central part of Astoria since 1870, when founder William Steinway set up shop there, is one of the few manufacturing plants still in New York. All new Steinways sold in the U.S. are made at the company’s headquarters. The firm, which also once owned a palatial Victorian mansion with turrets and a tower a block away, is now being shopped by its owner, hedge fund billionaire John Paulson, who is asking $1 billion. He bought it for $513 million in 2013.

Old beer cans, whiskey bottles found during home renovation worth thousands A family found a “treasure” worth thousands of dollars hidden inside their home during a renovation — and it was in one of the most unlikely places. When the family discovered that one of the columns on their front porch was full of empty beer cans and whiskey bottles, it turned out to be great news. The items dated back to the 1940s, and being in good condition, they’re potentially worth thousands of dollars on the collector’s market. The collectibles were discovered in the column of a front porch in Kansas City, Fox 4 KC reports. The house was reportedly built in the 1920s and the empty drink containers date back to the 1940s. According to one of the workers, 100 cans came out of the column when they opened it up. Amazingly, a chute was discovered near the top of the column. It appears as though a previous homeowner was hiding the evidence of their drinking by dropping the empty bottles and cans through the chute. Now, decades later, they’re worth a decent amount of money to the right buyer. “It was a jackpot of the 1940s,” homeowner Danielle Molder told Fox 4 KC. “Every variety of whiskey and bourbon you can imagine. Tons of old vintage beer cans. Many of them in amazing condition. There are collectors and now, overnight, I have an extensive collection.” While it may not seem like much, collectors are reportedly willing to pay comparatively high prices for these items. “A quick Google research showed some of these Falstaff cans can go for 40 to 50 dollars. I’ve got at least 20 to 30 of these guys,” claims Molder. Out of all the weird items a drinker could hide in the house, this probably the best possible outcome for the Molders.

checking account... who writes checks anymore? savings account... who has any savings anymore? :(

It never should have gone past the video they made in support of Hillary. I've watched, been mildly amused, but continued because I only have basic cable & no streaming services. Jack's & Karen's relationships made me retch last year, Will's made me yawn, & Grace's was the only one I liked. So I'll miss it only because I can't afford anything else.

OKAY… THIS IS COOL… Tuesday night the Yanks & Twins played what many are calling the game of the year (for all of baseball). The Yanks had gone ahead 14-12 in the 10th inning, but the Twins loaded the bases with 2 out in the bottom half. Then Max Kepler (the first MLB player born & raised in Germany) hit a screaming liner to left center that was definitely going to clear the bases and win the game… until Aaron Hicks made a sensational sprinting, diving, backhand catch to end it. Yankee announcer Ryan Ruocco was appropriately insane about it. Well… T-shirt company Rotowear has combined Ruocco’s words & Hicks’ dive to create an awesome t-shirt. WATCH THE VIDEO TO SEE HOW WELL THEY DEPICTED THE DIVE AND THE EXHILARATED RUSH OF WORDS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrfualDo9nY QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ SCINTILLATING TV today: Ruocco, who started as an intern with the YES (Yankees Entertainment & Sports) Network, has had his status explode in the past month, filling in for 2 NY powerhouse voices. Yankee radio announcer John Sterling (great voice, annoying personality) was hired in 1989. His sister died that year & he missed 2 games. He had since called 5000+ straight games until recently taking a few off because he was under the weather. (He turned 81 July 4th, so he’s a Yankee Doodle Dandy). Ruocco got kudos for his fill-in work. The face & voice of YES is Michael Kay. He does most of the games on TV, hosts a weekday ESPN radio sports talk show that YES simulcasts, and has a talk show (no regular schedule) called CENTERSTAGE in which he’s interviewed many big entertainment & sports figures (and also his uncle, Danny Aiello). ANYHOO… about a month ago he called a game with horrible laryngitis, took a couple of days off, came back & sounded better, then announced he had to have vocal chord surgery and would not be allowed to talk for a month (which is why Ruocco was calling the game). This was especially tough because he married at ~48 and has 2 young kids. To communicate with them & his wife (former morning news personality Jodi Applegate) he got proficient at typing his words into his phone, then letting it speak for him. ANYHOO… again… I was watching TMKS (The Michael Kay Show) today on YES and one of the co-hosts (he has 2) mentioned that Michael was in the building (it turns out he was in the area to see Michael Buble in concert tonight). So he eventually came on the set & sat down at his normal seat, but he’s still a week away from being allowed to speak, so they interviewed him and he typed all his answers into the phone, then held it up to the microphone. CLASSIC TV! One funny moment… they asked him how he’d have called Hicks’ catch. He started typing… and typing… and… one of the co-hosts read a GEICO promo in the interim. Finally, he played it back, and it was actually damned good!

I posted a similar thread once: https://www.companyofmen.org/threads/actors-you-cant-stand-mannerisms-voice-looks-roles-chosen-etc.131845/

A complete game one-hit shutout for The Biebs!

Explorer who found the Titanic wants to solve Amelia Earhart’s disappearance Robert Ballard, the oceanographer who found the Titanic in 1985 during a secret military operation, will begin to search for signs of Amelia Earhart, the pilot who disappeared from her attempted around-the-world flight on July 12, 1937, after taking off from Lae, New Guinea, in a Lockheed Electra 10E plane bound for Howard Island, located just north of the equator. Her disappearance prompted years of search efforts and conspiracy theories, including beliefs Earhart was captured and killed by the Japanese, settled with the natives of a Pacific island and even returned to New Jersey where she secretly lived out the rest of her days as a housewife. A REAL HOUSEWIFE OF NEW JERSEY?!?!? Ballard and a National Geographic expedition will search for her plane near a Pacific Ocean atoll that’s part of the Phoenix Islands. His team will use remotely operated underwater vehicles in their search, the National Geographic channel said Tuesday. An archaeological team will also investigate a potential Earhart campsite with search dogs and DNA sampling. National Geographic will air a two-hour special on Oct. 20. “Expedition Amelia” will include clues gathered by the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery that led Ballard to the atoll, named Nikumaroro. Ballard also is responsible for finding pieces of John F. Kennedy’s World War II patrol boat in the Solomon Sea, the German battleship Bismarck in the Atlantic, and many ancient ships in the Black Sea, as well as hydrothermal vents near the Galapagos, the channel said.

5 guys arrested for a fist fight... at Five Guys Jul 22, 2019 STUART, Fla. (WXYZ) — Police in Florida say they arrested five guys at a Five Guys Burgers and Fries restaurant last week for a fight. According to the Stuart Police Department, they received a report of a fist fight inside the restaurant on July 17. They arrived and arrested them all. Police say three juvenile males and two adult males were charged and processed at the jail. A witness said a cup was thrown and a door slammed in someone’s face before an “all-out brawl” broke out, according to an arrest report. The cause of the fight is unknown. Three male juveniles and two adult men were charged with affray and processed at the Martin County Jail, police said. Florida law defines affray as a first degree misdemeanor charge resulting from two or more people fighting in a public place and disturbing the peace, the Orlando Sentinel reported. Keith Morine and Loren Perine, of Stuart, who are both 18, were arrested and booked into the Martin County Jail, the newspaper reported. The three male minors were fingerprinted, booked into the jail and later released to parents.

How mystery In-N-Out burger wound up on a Queens street Meat mystery solved. The New York man who recently told The Post about finding a pristine In-N-Out cheeseburger sitting on a Queens street claims he’s figured out how the double-double wound up so far from home. Lincoln Boehm, 31, said Wednesday that after posting about the puzzling patty on Instagram, he received a message from Helen Vivas, a 16-year-old Queens girl, who said she had dropped the burger while running to catch a bus. “Helen was sincere, and from the jump I knew this person may hold the answers I’ve spent the last four days searching for,” Boehm wrote in a first-person essay on Vice. The high schooler, who attends Veritas Academy in Flushing, told Boehm she picked up the burger at one of the West Coast chain’s outposts in Encinitas Calif., July 19, before getting on a red-eye JetBlue flight back to the Big Apple. As proof, she provided a screengrab from her Instagram story of the In-N-Out restaurant she went to, her receipt from the eatery and her flight information. “At the counter, she made it clear to the In-N-Out employee taking her order that she was about to board a flight, and asked for suggestions to preserve the burgers as much as possible,” Boehm wrote. She ordered two double-doubles without sauce, explaining how the burger stayed in mint condition. She also bought two single cheeseburgers, with the vegetables packed in separate baggies. Once on the plane, she ate one of the double-doubles — and kept the bag containing the other sandwiches on her lap for the entire flight, Boehm wrote. She landed at JFK airport Saturday at 5:27 a.m. and took the AirTrain to the Jamaica station in order to catch the Q44 bus home. That’s when “she saw the bus sitting a block away at the stop, about to leave” and ran to catch it, Boehm wrote. “The good news: She caught the bus. The bad news: The bag burst open at the bottom while she made this fateful sprint.” She was apparently able to catch two of the three burgers before they hit the ground — but left the double-double behind. About an hour later, Boehm, an In-N-Out addict from Santa Monica, and his wife Dara Katz, came across the untouched burger. “It genuinely shook me to my core,” he previously told The Post. The fast food giant has locations in Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Texas and its home state of California — but its closest restaurant is at least 1,500 miles from the Big Apple. Boehm said he fielded dozens of messages with theories about the case. Now that he’s solved the mystery, he said he plans to meet the fellow In-N-Out superfan. “My wife and I have invited Helen and her family over to our apartment for a barbecue,” he wrote. “We’ll probably have hot dogs and chicken.”

Dunaway fired for slapping crew member By Michael Riedel Dunaway has been fired from the Broadway-bound play “Tea at Five” for creating a “hostile” and “dangerous” environment backstage that left production members fearing for their safety, several sources told The Post. Onstage at the Huntington Theater in Boston, where “Tea at Five” was trying out, Dunaway was playing Katharine Hepburn. Backstage she was channeling Joan Crawford, the deranged, abusive film star Dunaway played in the 1981 movie “Mommie Dearest.” The July 10 performance was canceled moments before curtain because Dunaway slapped and threw things at crew members who were trying to put on her wig, sources say. Enraged at the cancellation, Dunaway began “verbally abusing” the crew. They were “fearful for their safety,” said one source. Dunaway was traveling in Europe and could not be reached for comment. Her lawyer did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment. The producers of “Tea at Five” said in a statement they had “terminated their relationship” with the actress. They said the play, which was well received in Boston, would go to London in the spring and be recast with another actress. “Tea at Five,” a one-woman play by Matthew Lombardo about Hepburn’s recovery from a car accident in 1983, was meant to be a triumphant return to the stage for Dunaway, who famously was fired by Andrew Lloyd Webber before she opened in the Los Angeles production of “Sunset Boulevard.” Dunaway, who won her Oscar as the ambitious television producer in “Network,” was excited to return to Broadway for the first time in 37 years. (Her last appearance was in the 1982 play “The Curse of the Aching Heart.) “She seemed committed to the role, and fun to be around,” said a source. But her behavior was unsettling at an early photo shoot. Someone gave her a salad for lunch and she threw it on the floor. She was watching her weight and said the salad would be better on the floor than in her hand. She was frequently late for rehearsals, sometimes up to two hours, sources say. She refused to allow anyone to look at her during rehearsals, including the director and the playwright. Although she had the script for six months, sources claim she was never able to learn her lines. During the run of the play at Huntington she was fed lines and blocking through an earpiece. One source says, “98 percent of the play came through the earpiece.” Late at night while in rehearsal she left what one production source called “troubling, rambling, angry” voicemails to the creative team during the middle of the night. She also insisted that no one wear white to rehearsals because it “distracts me,” she said. When she was rehearsing on stage at the Huntington no one was allowed to move in the theater because that also distracted her. As she was rehearsing, she began to lose weight. She looked so emaciated that a production member called Dunaway’s former assistant for advice. The assistant said, “It sounds like she’s not complying with her medication.” The producers were so concerned about her condition they called Actors’ Equity Association to see if it was “ethical” to put someone in her state in front of an audience, sources say. Over the last weekend of June she had a full on “Mommie Dearest” meltdown and demanded that staffers at the Huntington Theater get down on their hands and knees and scrub the floor of her dressing room, sources claim. She allegedly threw mirrors, combs and boxes of hairpins at the staff of the theater. She also pulled gray hairs out of her wig because she wanted to play a younger version of Hepburn than the playwright had written. The producer knew they had to fire her when they had to cancel the July 10 performance because she physically and verbally abused several production members. This is not the first time Dunaway has displayed erratic behavior in a show. In the early 1990s she toured the country as Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s “Master Class.” She showed up an hour late for many performances. She had bellhops rearrange her furniture in her hotel suites in the middle of night because she didn’t like the “flow” of the room. Once, a theater in St. Louis sent her a white limousine, and she reportedly had a fit because she hates white. She demanded a rental car from the hotel to get to the theater. The limo company sent a black car instead, but it was too late — Dunaway was racing to the theater, trailed by both the white limo and the black one. I managed to track her down back then and she was charming on the phone. “Your story sounds like a Fellini movie,” she told me. I haven’t been able to reach her in Europe for this story. But I hope wherever she is there are “no wire hangers!”

Holy guacamole! You can finally live in an avocado. A new “Avo-Condo,” aka an avocado-shaped camper, is available on Booking.com for the equivalent of only $70 USD per night. Located in Campbell’s Cove Lookout in Sydney, Australia, this “once in a lifetime opportunity” is unfortunately only available between July 31 (National Avocado Day) and Aug. 1. But for that brief time, the debate between housing and enjoying avocados — the Sophie’s choice of the millennial generation — will be solved. The “custom-built, self-contained avocado-themed condo” can house two guests and “will be filled with avo-inspired decorations to make this a truly unforgettable place to stay,” according to the listings. Better still, the camper will be filled with “a personal hamper full of avocado-themed goodies!” But act fast, as the great avocado is available on a first come, first served basis. What can we say? Avocado’s are all the rage right now. In fact, this is the latest in a string of headline-making appearances for avocados. Toast smeared with the fruit is being hyped as an amenity at a condo development in Vancouver, Canada. One fan even used the creamy green delight as his weapon of choice during a pair of wacky “armed” bank robberies in Beersheba, Israel.

Faye Dunaway fired from Broadway-bound ‘Tea at Five’ Faye Dunaway has been fired from the Broadway-bound play “Tea at Five.” Dunaway, 78, was playing Katharine Hepburn in the one-woman play, set to open on Broadway next year. It had been playing in Boston. “The producers of ‘Tea at Five’ announced today that they have terminated their relationship with Faye Dunaway,” spokesman Rick Miramontez said in a statement. “Plans are in development to have its West End debut early next year with a new actress to play the role of Katharine Hepburn.” Dunaway last appeared on Broadway in 1982’s “The Curse of the Aching Heart.”

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Break a leg! The messy professional break-up between hot-shot personal-injury lawyers Ross Cellino and Steve Barnes is moving from the courthouse to the playhouse, dramatized in a stage show playing next month in Brooklyn. “Cellino v. Barnes” will hit the stage Aug. 3 at The Bell House in Gowanus, with the respective roles filled by co-creators Michael Breen and David Rafailedes. The show, which already has had a sold-out run at the borough’s Union Hall, is a retelling of the rise and fall of the professional bond between the legal eagles, known for their inescapable TV spots featuring the earworm “Don’t wait, call 8” jingle. The union hit the skids in 2017, when Cellino filed suit against Barnes to dissolve the firm over a slew of squabbles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq8ejBuJuck

Wendy Williams is producing a biopic about her troubled life for Lifetime, airing next year. The TV host’s real life is certainly the stuff of a Lifetime movie: She recently sent her husband and business partner Kevin Hunter packing after he got mistress Sharina Hudson pregnant, while Williamsspent time in a sober living house and has battled various health issues. She’s making the movie with Will Packer — the hot producer behind “Girls Trip.” The project’s about “her scrappy upstart days in urban radio to the success of her own syndicated talk show,” a release said. “Boomerang” writer Leigh Davenport is penning the script. Williams just celebrated her 55th birthday with breakfast at Tiffany (literally — at the jewelry store’s in-house cafe), plus dinner at Serendipity 3 and a cruise around Manhattan while wearing a tiara. Lifetime, which was behind “Surviving R. Kelly,” is now also producing a “Surviving Jeffrey Epstein” series. Blac Chyna’s mom, Tokyo Toni, accuses Wendy Williams of using cocaine Wendy Williams‘ newfound friendship with Blac Chyna apparently doesn’t extend to the reality star’s mother, Tokyo Toni. Chyna and her mom have been publicly feuding, though they seemed to temporarily make amends. It clearly didn’t last long, so Williams, 55, discussed the ongoing feud between the mother-daughter duo on her show last week. “Fans though are outraged over how her mother Tokyo Toni treated Chyna,” before sharing a clip from Chyna’s reality show, “Real Blac Chyna,” that showed Toni cursing out her daughter. “Along with that she also said something to the effect … you can kill yourself I don’t care. …Toni, take this in the best way because when last we talked you were hugging me and crying and me, you, Chyna we spent all day together and it was great, and all you kept telling me was ‘Wendy, thank you.'” She added, “All I’m saying is you only have one mother.” Williams’ hot take didn’t sit well with Toni, who subsequently lashed out on Instagram Live with threats to expose her secrets. “Let me check Wendy Williams’ motherf–king ass bitch. Wendy, I’mma tell you this. Don’t mention my motherf–king name again, or I’m gonna talk about your s–t,” warned Toni. “Wendy is so gone, that when I see her, I’mma knock her face off. When I see you, bitch, I’m gonna get a charge. I’mma bust your ass,” she continued. “You said I cried? When I walked in, you was sniffing coke. ‘Heyyy, ohhh’ Eyes was big. You hugged me because I ain’t no sucker.” A rep for “The Wendy Williams Show” didn’t comment and a rep for the host didn’t return our request for comment. Earlier this year, Williams checked into a sober house to treat a drug and alcohol addiction relapse. On Monday’s episode, Williams didn’t address Toni’s threats and instead focused on how she’s the “same girl, just different” since moving to New York City following her separation from husband Kevin Hunter.