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‘Punky Brewster’ sequel in the works, with original star Soleil Moon Frye Punky Brewster star Soleil Moon Frye will return in a TV sequel. The 42-year-old actress will reprise the title character in a reboot in development at UCP, Deadline reported Tuesday. The new series centers on an older Punky, who is now a single mom to three. The character meets a young girl who reminds her of her younger self. Steve and Jim Armogida will write the show and executive produce with Frye, original series creator David W. Duclon and Jimmy Fox. The series marks UCP's first multi-camera/family sitcom. Frye celebrated the news in a tweet Tuesday. "She is back! I am back! #punkypower forever! Yipppeeee," she wrote. The original Punky Brewster had a four-season run on NBC/in syndication from 1984 to 1988. It followed Punky, a young girl being raised by a foster parent, Henry Warnimont (George Gaynes). Punky Brewster previously inspired the animated series It's Punky Brewster, which featured the voices of the original cast. The show aired for two seasons from 1985 to 1986. Frye is also known for portraying Roxie King on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. She will next appear in the movie Heirloomswith Lynda Carter and Luke Wilson, and most importantly, is the half-sister of Meeno Peluce, who starred with Jon-Erik Hexum in the classic TV series VOYAGERS. Soleil Moon Frye ©, pictured with daughters Poet and Jagger

Joey Fatone has a fat wallet. According to divorce documents obtained by The Blast, the former NSYNC singer has a monthly gross income of $37,910, in addition to $1,327,600 in stocks and retirement, $20,000 in the bank and $90,000 in cash for his production company. His monthly expenses are around $21,076.02. Aside from being part of one of the most successful boy bands of all time, the 42-year-old has launched his own hot dog business, Fat One’s in Orlando, Fla., and appeared on several reality shows, including “The Masked Singer.” Records were released Friday after Fatone filed for divorce from his estranged wife, Kelly Baldwin, after 15 years of marriage on May 13. They have two daughters: Briahna Joely, 18, and Kloey Alexandria, 9. The singer has moved on with 33-year-old Izabel Araujo, who began dating Fatone as early as 2015. The Blast reports that Baldwin, 42, is not coming after his fortune due to a prenuptial agreement the former couple signed prior to their wedding in 2004. Baldwin has agreed to abide by the prenup, which includes a $4,500 monthly payment for child support, $3,500 in spousal support and other assets. Fatone confirmed his marriage was dissolving to Us Weekly at the Critics Choice Real TV Awards Sunday, saying, “I was, at one point, married, and now I am separated, going through a divorce.”

Over the years, the small Vermilion Heritage Museum in Alberta, Canada, tried everything in its power to unlock an old safe tucked away in its basement. The museum hired blacksmiths, called the manufacturer, contacted former employees and challenged guests to play around with the safe — but nobody had any success. Until last month, when a visitor to Vermilion cracked the code on his first try, much to the astonishment of everyone present. Stephen Mills, from Fort McMurray, Alberta, was on a family camping trip with his wife, his two children and his father-in-law. “We wanted to check out what the community has to offer,” said Mills. “The museum was actually closed on the day we were there, but we managed to track down one of the volunteers, Tom Kibblewhite, who opened it for us and showed us around.” After giving the Mills’ family a tour of the whole building, the volunteer proceeded to show them the objects in the basement, including the mysterious safe. It originally had belonged to the town’s Brunswick Hotel which opened in the early 1900s, Kibblewhite said. When the hotel shut down, in the late 1970s, the safe was locked — and so it had remained. “It was like a time capsule, nobody had any idea of what was in there,” Mills said. Like other visitors, Mills was offered the chance to take a crack at opening it. So he put his ear up to the safe, “just like you see in the movies,” he said, as his two children, aged 4 and 6, stood next to him. “I looked at the dial and I saw the numbers were running from 0 to 60. So I thought in my head 20-40-60. I did a particular combination which is three on the right, two on the left, and 1 on the right, tried the handle … and it opened!” “It was a 100% guess,” he said. “I was fully amazed. I stepped back a little bit and thought ‘I’m buying a lottery ticket tonight!'” The contents of the safe proved a little disappointing. “Unfortunately there wasn’t what we thought was there,” Mills said. “Some papers, old checks, a waitress’ notepad, and a receipt from the hotel, that’s it.” All the papers dated back to 1977-8, Mills said. Nonetheless, Mills said everyone was pretty excited about the lucky guess. “My children kept screaming ‘we beat the code! We beat the code!'” he said.

A friend of mine had always raved about the movie. I finally saw it & decided it should have been titled "Enter Yawning." Glad you enjoyed the play, though.

If you play it at 2X the speed, it's 1/2 as nightmarish.

He wasn’t laughing. New video shows comedian Tracy Morgan throwing a fit after a woman slammed her Honda into his fresh-off-the-lot, $2 million Bugatti sports car in Manhattan Tuesday, video obtained by Page Six shows. “Bitch get out the car!” Morgan can be heard shouting after hitting the passenger-side window of the Honda CRV that crashed into his new ride. The clip begins right after the fender-bender, and shows Morgan climb up on the Cognac-colored leather interior of his newly bought Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport to hit the other vehicle. He can then be seen scrambling over the center console to climb out the passenger-side door. “Just bought it,” he fumes to passersby before walking out into traffic to speak with the other driver.

DEAR ABBY: I’m 13, and I have had a few problems with my boyfriend’s family. I got him in trouble a few times, and I feel really bad about it, even though I’m not a bad person. We have talked about things we shouldn’t have talked about at our age and used bad language. His parents have gotten on him about it. I tried to talk to his mother, but I have the feeling they don’t particularly like me even though she says she has nothing against me. I know my boyfriend’s older sister doesn’t like me and doesn’t want me and her brother to be together. We are now being forced to break up until he is respectful enough to have a girlfriend, even though he is very respectful. I feel like this all revolves around me, and I want to get his family to know the real me and give me another chance. What should I do? — FORCED TO BREAK UP IN MISSISSIPPI DEAR FORCED TO BREAK UP: Thirteen is young for a serious romance, and your boyfriend’s family may be worried that you are trying to rush him into a relationship for which he isn’t ready. For now, the smart move would be to put some distance between you and your boyfriend. If you stand any chance of improving your standing with his mother and sister, a step in the right direction would be to clean up your bad language. Another would be to concentrate your efforts on becoming someone they can respect — a good student, active in a youth group or sports activity. If they can see a positive change in you, they may be more receptive to your being in his life. And if they don’t, your time won’t have been wasted because you will have become a more successful person. Start working the local street corner, you little whore, and sooner or later you'll likely encounter his father or uncle or cousin, and then you'll have something to hold over the family's heads and they'll HAVE to let you work your seductive charms on your boyfriend. Good luck, and God bless!

Just an hour after annoying comedian Tracy Morgan bought a new, $2 million Bugatti in Manhattan Tuesday, a New Jersey driver in a cheap Honda smacked into his luxury ride. “Thanks for any concern but I am totally fine. My NEW CAR? We shall see. Love you all,” Morgan tweeted after the accident. He was driving the ritzy new ride at 42nd Street and 10th Avenue around 1:37 p.m. when a woman in a late-model Honda CRV tried to make a right turn from the left lane and smacked into the “30 Rock” luminary’s fresh-off-the-lot ride, police and witnesses said. “He said he got it literally an hour ago and he paid $2 million for it,” witness Chris Ricciardelli, 31, told The Post. “He just bought it, dude, and it’s pretty scraped up. It still had a dealer tag.” Morgan had just bought the pre-owned 2012 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport a few blocks away at Manhattan Motorcars 30 minutes to an hour before the crash, workers there said. Photos show the Bugatti’s front, driver’s-side wheel well scratched and dented where the cheaper car crashed into it. “When I got the phone call, I said, ‘That’s Tracy’s car?’ I couldn’t believe it. That was its maiden voyage,” said Frank Pica, a sales consultant at Manhattan Motorcars. “He bought it today. That style with the top down is usually over two million dollars. Those kinds of cars are very rare and to get any year is special.” The company’s website listed a similar car for $1.89 million. Several witnesses blamed the other driver, who had New Jersey plates, but the woman was not charged, according to police. “She ran into him. She was on her phone,” said a 23-year-old witness who gave the name Antoinette. The driver didn’t seem to realize just who she’d hit, according to passersby — but just about everyone else on the street recognized the annoying actor. After the crash, Morgan — who was critically injured in 2014 when his chauffeured limo was hit by a sleep-deprived trucker — became “anxious because a crowd was forming,” a 911 caller told cops, according to a police source. “The first thing he said was his left hip was hurting him,” Ricciardelli said. The annoying funnyman briefly climbed into the back of an ambulance, but was not treated and wound up leaving in another person’s car. “Tracy is annoying, doing fine and in no pain,” publicist Lewis Jay told The Post. “Yes he had just purchased the car and was driving when the other vehicle hit the car.”

Ozone Park supermarket owner torches rival’s store because they had lower prices: feds When competition heated up, an Ozone Park supermarket owner decided to have a fire sale — by setting his rival’s business ablaze, federal prosecutors said on May 31. A federal grand jury indicted Mamunar Khan, 59, co-owner of the Deshi Bazaar at 74-16 101st Ave., for allegedly torching on Feb. 3 the Premium Supermarket, located three blocks away in Brooklyn at 1196 Liberty Ave. “As alleged in the indictment, Khan set fire to a supermarket while it was open for business, demonstrating total disregard for the safety of employees, customers and the firefighters who responded to the blaze,” U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue said on Friday. “Attempting to burn down your competition is an extremely serious and violent crime and we and our law enforcement partners will ensure that such crimes are punished.” According to the indictment, Khan was caught on camera inside the Premium Supermarket on Feb. 3 pushing a cart filled with an unknown flammable material down an aisle. While wearing blue latex gloves, he allegedly ignited the material with a lighter, then fled the store as the flames spread. A camera outside the shop filmed Khan allegedly driving away from the shop inside a Mercedes-Benz SUV, authorities said. Numerous Fire Department units responded to put out the fire, which caused substantial damage to the supermarket and its structure. No major injuries or deaths were reported. During an investigation, federal prosecutors said, law enforcement agents questioned a witness who told them that Khan had allegedly previously complained about Premium Supermarket, claiming that their lower prices were hurting business at Deshi Bazaar. A day after detectives questioned him, Khan left the country for Bangladesh. He was arrested upon his return in early May, prosecutors say. He had previously criticized Premium Supermarket for price gouging, witnesses told investigators. “The use of fire as a weapon to injure and intimidate is a callous crime, one that senselessly puts the lives of New Yorkers and FDNY members in danger,” Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. “Thanks to our Fire Marshals, NYPD Detectives, ATF agents, and the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents who brought to justice an alleged arsonist who sought to avoid responsibility for this crime.” Khan faces between 5 and 20 years in federal prison if convicted. “These are false charges,” Khan told the Eagle over the phone. “I have nothing else to say.” The fire spread throughout the building and caused structural damage, though no one was injured. One commenter, Sam Rahman, left a review on the Deshi Bazaar’s Google page lambasting Khan. “He didn’t care for anyone else but him, there was little kids in there, any one of them couldve died,” Rahman wrote, using awful grammar.

This is the world’s smallest McDonald’s – which is too tiny for humans to use. The mini McD’s is actually a hive crafted to house thousands of honey bees. Despite its diminutive dimensions, the restaurant has been expertly crafted to include a scaled down version of every aspect of a McDonald’s branch. It even comes complete with little branded parasols on the dining patio, a Drive-Thru hatch and the all-important Golden Arches sign. And the windows are plastered with impressively accurate posters advertising the McDonald’s menu. The teeny diner was commissioned by McDonald’s in Sweden to celebrate the beehives placed on the roofs of their restaurants. Dubbed the McHive, it was thought-up by Scandinavian ad agency Nord DDB – who also released a behind-the-scenes video of its construction. The clip shows craftsmen working in minute detail to replicate every aspect of a full-size McDonald’s restaurant with amazing precision. It looks sure to create a buzz among the local bees. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOT so cute... NYPD beekeepers blast MLB, San Diego Padres for killing swarm The NYPD’s beekeepers took a swing at Major League Baseball Monday, when they ripped the league and San Diego Padres for killing a swarm of bees on the field during a game Sunday instead of rescuing them. The beekeepers posted a number of messages on Twitter Monday night after other users brought the situation to their attention. “This was not handled humanely. These honeybees were killed by an extermination company instead of having a beekeeper come and remove them,” the NYPD beekeepers wrote from their official Twitter account, with a link to a CBS News story that said the bees had been killed. “@MLB please have each park have a beekeeper’s number on file for instances like this,” they added. The account put up several tweets showing how angry they were at the issue, and said: “That’s not a beekeeper and certainly not a bee vacuum that he used to vacuum those bees.” The CBS News report said that the game between the Miami Marlins and the Padres was delayed for about half an hour after the discovery of the swarm of honeybees attached to a microphone near the Padres’ dugout. They called an exterminator who sprayed the bees, killing them, and then vacuumed the dead bees off the field. The NYPD beekeepers, a two-man team who spoke to The Post last week, often take home the swarms of bees they take off of city streets.

Walmart apologizes after family's graduation cake turned out to be Styrofoam Graduating is a big deal and having the right dessert to honor the occasion is usually an important party staple. Last week, a mother in Texas wanted to celebrate her daughter's high school graduation with something special, so she ordered a custom confection from Walmart. Unfortunately, not only did Walmart mess up the order, the bakery provided the family with a surprise that was anything but sweet. In May, Marcy Flores ordered a two-tier cake from the bakery at her local Walmart in Pasadena, Texas. "This is my baby, and she was graduating, so it was very important to me," Flores told KPRC2 Houston. But when Flores went to pick up her daughter's cake, the staff had no order in her name and there was nothing ready for the family's special day. To make up for the mistake, an employee at the store reportedly offered Flores the option to choose a ready-made cake free of charge. Flores chose a smaller, single-layer blue-and-white frosted cake (her daughter's school colors) and was told that the Walmart bakers would be able to make some additional customizations including "a couple of graduation things ... and her picture." Happy to have a replacement, Flores took the cake home and thought everything would be fine for the party that evening. She was wrong. When it was time for dessert, Flores and her family received a disappointing surprise as they tried to cut into the blue-and-white cake. "I go to cut the cake and it was not budging," Flores said. Instead of gliding through moist cake, the knife crunched through a block of white styrofoam instead. "I was in complete shock," Flores' sister told KPRC2. Once photos of the cake went viral on Twitter, several people chimed in, saying that the family was overreacting. Others seized on the opportunity for a little wisdom on eating your cake. Some tweeters were a bit more critical of the large chain. On Monday, Flores could not be reached for comment, but KPRC2 reported that she received a $60 Walmart gift card from the local store as an apology. When reached via email, a Walmart spokesperson confirmed that the incident occurred and said the team had been looking into the issue with the local store. "We apologize for our mistake. This is never a something we want to take place," a Walmart spokesperson told TODAY Food. "Our store manager has made their best effort to make the situation right and will continue to work with the bakery team to understand what happened and ensure it doesn't happen again." But for Flores, the damage has been done. "They can't replace the moment that we lost. It’s a special moment, and this is what we got for it, a Styrofoam cake," Flores said. "Not only did they mess up one time, they did it twice."

Ball-gagged man says he couldn’t call for help as Grindr hookup robbed him A Greenwich Village man was allegedly robbed by a date he met on Grindr — but told cops he couldn’t scream for help because he had “a jock strap and ball gag in his mouth,” police sources said Monday. Police responded to a call of a home invasion robbery around 3 a.m. Saturday at the 26-year-old victim’s apartment on Greenwich Street, police said. The man told police he had met his date in a section of the app called “Black Men Love Fisting,” the sources said. He said the two men had consensual intercourse that included latex bottles, rubber gloves, a leash and a sex swing. But they got into an argument over the small size of the perp’s package — leading him to choke the victim and demand cash, the sources said. The victim told cops he thought it was part of the fantasy until his date allegedly dragged him into a closet and took $3,000. The victim told cops he tried to scream when he realized he was being robbed but couldn’t, the sources said. The robber fled and the victim was treated on the scene. Cops took latex gloves, a dildo and the sex swing as evidence, the sources said. The suspect was described as being in his 30s with a goatee and wearing a white t-shirt, black sweatpants and black hoodie, police said. Police canvassed the area but didn’t find the perp.

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Yes... the vcr sits on it. I don't know how to connect the vcr & dvd player to the TV at the same time, so whichever is the one I last used (the vcr) is the one hooked to the TV. I own 3 DVDs-- I bought Brokeback Mountain the day it came out & have never watched it all the way through, & my best friend gave me a GOLDEN GIRLS dvd & my sister bought me a CHUCK (Zachary Levi's NBC series I loved) dvd when I was in the hospital for 33 days following neck & back surgeries in 2012. (I entered the hospital the day the CHUCK finale aired).

I have an old flip phone. I rarely text & only turn it on when I have to make a call. People know only to call me on my landline. I never set up voicemail, so you can only leave a message on my answering machine. My vcr is still set up, but I haven't used it in ages... probably not since early 2018.

A towering runaway cruise ship rammed into a sightseeing boat on a Venice canal Sunday morning — just days after a similar crash left 28 feared dead in Hungary. Video shows the luxury MSC Opera unable to stop and repeatedly blaring its horn as it hits the much-smaller River Countess, eventually pushing it into the dock despite the efforts of towboats to stop it. Four female tourists were injured on the sightseeing boat that had 110 passengers, officials said. MSC Cruises blamed a mechanical problem on its ship, which can carry over 2,675 passengers in 1,071 cabins, as it tried to dock in the Giudecca Canal. Italian officials immediately called for all such cruise ships to be banned from using the major thoroughfare that leads to Saint Mark’s Square “Today’s accident in the port of Venice proves that cruise ships shouldn’t be allowed to pass down the Giudecca anymore,” insisted Italy’s transport minister, Danilo Toninelli. “After many years of inertia, we are finally close to a solution to protect both the lagoon and tourism.” The accident came just three days after a tour boat carrying 33 South Korean tourists sunk in Hungary after getting hit by a ship on the Danube River. Seven were pronounced dead and 21 are still missing, although authorities have admitted it seems unlikely more survivors will be found, with high water levels stumping rescue operations. Hungarian police launched a criminal investigation and confirmed that the captain of the cruise ship, a 64-year-old named Yuriy C., had been detained and questioned.

http://bp1.blogger.com/_YvNBaC9SgCI/Rx6TSAihBgI/AAAAAAAAAOE/Ol_K32AbFJg/s320/Al+Leiter.jpg Jack Leiter shares dad’s gifts but may choose own road to majors Jack Leiter was always going to pitch, and he always wanted to, from the time he was a kid. It was in his blood. Even before his growth spurt, when he was one of the smallest kids on his travel team and mostly played infield, he made sure to pitch on the side. “We pitch,” his father Al, the former Met and Yankee left-hander, said. “We’re pitchers.” Jack is following in the family business, developing into one of the premier high school pitching prospects in the country. Delbarton’s senior ace right-hander with the mid-90s fastball and polished off-speed repertoire to match drew dozens of scouts to every one of his starts this spring. In Monday night’s MLB draft, he could surpass his father, a second-round pick of the Yankees in 1984. Some have projected him as a first-rounder, if his commitment to national powerhouse Vanderbilt and price tag that would go along with it doesn’t scare teams away. Baseball America ranks him 22nd of all draft-eligible prospects. “If Jack wants to play pro ball and he wants to go in the draft, he’ll be a top-15 pick — no ifs, ands or buts,” Delbarton coach Bruce Shatel said of the Gatorade Player of the Year in New Jersey. “That’s the consensus. It’s basically up to him.” No matters what happens, this has been a year the family won’t soon forget. Jack, 19, has pitched Delbarton into Wednesday’s Non-Public A state final — going 8-0 with 88 strikeouts, just 23 hits allowed in 53 innings pitched and a 0.53 ERA. Al has attended every game, after stepping away from his job as a Yankees announcer with the YES Network. He’s behind the backstop for every start — charting his son’s pitches, offering insight in between innings. “What’s it been like? Fantastic. Terrific,” Al said. “Stuff you hope as a parent you get a chance to experience.” Jack’s meteoric rise began a few years ago. Al saw his son had a love for pitching, so he created a workout plan based on what he did when he was a major league pitcher. He never pushed him. He simply gave him the formula that Jack has followed to a tee. “I’ll come home and I’ll hear the thump of a heavy ball into the cement wall and I know he’s down there [in the Shatel has marveled at how meticulous his star pitcher is. He’s always doing something to get better. There is no down time at the park. He’s either running, throwing, working on his pickoff move or mechanics. He treats drill work like he’s on the mound in the state championship game. The work ethic and determination reminds his mother Lori of when Al was pitching in the big leagues. “When it comes to working hard and improvement, I would say, yeah, I guess I am a perfectionist,” Jack said after finding fault with his shutout performance over 6 ²/₃ innings in the NJSIAA North Jersey, Non-Public A final victory over Don Bosco Prep on Friday. Shatel didn’t see this when Jack joined his program as a freshman. He was small and didn’t throw overall hard. He knew how to pitch, and did well with a chance late in the year on the varsity. But it wasn’t until the following spring the longtime coach realized he had a legitimate prospect on his hands. Jack went through a growth spurt and during the team’s spring training in Florida, his velocity shot up. Shatel and Al were behind the backstop chatting and clocking the team’s pitchers. Jack got their attention: 89, 90, 91. “We both looked at each other in disbelief,” recalled Shatel, who said the only New Jersey prep pitcher he’s ever seen comparable to Jack is Red Sox pitcher Rick Porcello. Jack is just the latest in a long line of Leiters with a gift for throwing a baseball. Al was a 19-year veteran in the big leagues, winning three World Series titles and reaching two All-Star games. His brother Mark pitched for a decade in the majors. Mark’s son is still pitching professionally. Their brother Kurt pitched for Oklahoma State in the College World Series and in the minor leagues. Al hoped his son would take another path, maybe become a third baseman. But he had the Leiter family flaw — Jack was frequently out in front at the plate, lunging at the ball — and possessed the pitching gift all the Leiter men seem to have. “People might think that expectations are high, whatever it is, and that comes from [being his son], but I really don’t think the expectations are high,” Jack said. “I’m my own person. I’m trying to make a name for myself.” Al said he believes his son is ahead of where he was at the same age. Jack throws harder, has better mechanics and a more polished set of pitches. He’s poised on the mound, and Al was admittedly a “nutjob” who took years to mature. The one drawback: Jack is just 6-foot; Al stands 6-foot-3. That, in addition to his scholarship to Vanderbilt, could hold him back Monday night. “He has everything except for height,” a scout who has closely followed Jack said. “He has a chance for plus stuff across the board.” Al’s love for pitching was clearly passed on to his son. Jack has roughly 40 quotes from famous pitchers hung up in his room, mostly about focus, poise and thinking the game. There, however, is not one from his dad. “I get those every day,” he joked. The two will talk pitching constantly. Jack basically lives with his personal pitching coach. Just the other day, Al showed him how David Cone would grip his slider. Jack tried it in a bullpen session, and is now throwing the pitch that way. They talk pitching at the dinner table. They talk pitching while watching television. “Since Jack could talk and walk, it’s been baseball,” his mother said. The next step is uncertain. The draft is Monday, but Jack said he is more focused on Wednesday’s state final. When the subject was broached with Al, he made it sound like college is in his son’s future, pointing to his prowess in the classroom and how important academics were in picking a school. “I think he got straight A’s except two classes in four years of high school,” Al said. “He didn’t commit to Vanderbilt just because they’re really good at baseball. School matters to him, it matters to me and it matters to my wife.” For now, father and son are just enjoying the present, reveling in this potential run to a state championship. Whatever comes Monday is gravy. Two days later he’ll be back on the mound, and Al will be behind the backstop following every pitch.