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Onthe docket…
Dane Cook’s sister-in-law has pleaded not guilty to charges she helped her husband steal millions of dollars from the comedian.
Erika McCauley was arraigned in Woburn, Mass., and ordered held on $1 million bail.
Darryl McCauley, Cook’s half-brother and McCauley’s husband, pleaded not guilty in March to larceny and forgery.
Authorities say state police recently found more than $700,000 hidden in the McCauleys’ homes in Wilmington, Mass., and York Beach, Maine. State police found nearly $900,000 in December.
Prosecutors say Darryl McCauley stole the money while he worked for Cook’s company, Great Dane Enterprises. His attorney has said he denies taking money without Cook’s consent.
Second thoughts…
Joy Behar apparently has cold feet.
Despite her recent announcement that she would marry her longtime boyfriend, Steve Janowitz, she joked at the
Friars Club, “I’m getting my own talk show on HLN, so I don’t have to get married anymore.” Then she added, “Actually, I got cold feet again, so I don’t know what I’m going to do. It’s off the table. What’ll happen is, when I decide to do it, I’ll do it, and then everybody will know I did it. I can’t make up my mind.”
This is “fine” with Janowitz, she says. “He says, ‘Do whatever you want.’”
Stereotypes?…
Does MichaelBay’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” suffer from the Jar Jar Binks Syndrome?
Some fans say two of the star cars are racial caricatures. Skids and Mud-flap, twin Chevy compact hatchbacks, bicker in rap-influenced slang and can’t read. One has a gold tooth.
Some fans similarly complained that the Jar Jar Binks character added a negative racial component to George Lucas’ otherwise awful “Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace.”
Bay disagrees. “It’s done in fun,” he said. “I don’t know if it’s stereotypes— they are robots, by the way. These are the voice actors. This is kind of the direction they were taking.”
Celebrity birthdays…
Sunday: Mel Brooks is 83. Kathy Bates is 61. John Cusack is 43. Tichina Arnold is 38. Bassist Mark Stoermer of The Killers is 32. Country singer Kellie Pickler is 23.
Monday: Gary Busey is 65. Sharon Lawrence is 48. Melora Hardin is 42. DJ Shadow is 37. Nicole Scherzinger is 31.
Tuesday: Lena Horne is 92. David Alan Grier is 53. Bassist Tom Drummond of Better Than Ezra is 40. Monica Potter is 38. “American Idol” winner Fantasia Barrino is 25.
Wednesday: Jamie Farr is 75. Dancer Twyla Tharp is 68. Deborah Harry of Blondie is 64. Dan Aykroyd is 57. Pamela Anderson is 42. Rapper Missy Elliott is 38. Actress Julianne Nicholson is 38. Liv Tyler is 32.
Thursday: Writer-director Larry David is 62. Keyboardist Roy Bittan of the E Street Band is 60. Ashley Tisdale is 24. Lindsay Lohan is 23.
Friday: Actor Michael Cole is 64. Dave Barry is 62. Montel Williams is 53. Actor Tom Cruise is 47. Keyboardist-guitarist Kevin Hearn of Barenaked Ladies is 40.
Next Saturday: Mitch Miller is 98. Advice columnist Abigail Van Buren is 91. Neil Simon is 82. TV talk show host Geraldo Rivera is 66.
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