Stockard Channing (the "Pickles" of "West Wing") held on DUI charges

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Stockard Channing Arrested for DUI
January 24, 2005

"The West Wing's" first lady recently traded the White House for the big house. "CJ" has learned that famed actress Stockard Channing spent some time in custody last month in a Los Angeles county jail. Channing was arrested on DUI charges on December 14, and on Monday, she was charged with two misdemeanor counts for driving under the influence.

Channing, nominated for an Oscar for her riveting role in "Six Degrees of Separation," was on the 101 Freeway in Hollywood around 10 p.m., according to court documents. California Highway Patrol officers say Channing was actually driving on the shoulder of the freeway. The city attorney's office tells "CJ" that at the time, a truck stuck on the well-traveled freeway was causing a traffic tie-up. Officers were laying out flares to redirect traffic, but sources tell us Channing allegedly decided to cut the line by driving on the shoulder.

After field sobriety tests, Channing was booked and released from the county jail. Interestingly, Channing has won critical acclaim for two roles playing an alcoholic. In 2003, Channing starred in "Anything Else" as a washed-up alcoholic singer. And in "The Business of Strangers," Channing played a businesswoman lost in booze-drenched mind games with Julia Styles.

"CJ" found no record of any prior DUI for the highly revered actress, but she will be arraigned on these two counts on February 9.

[Cha]

1. She has something in common with

bush then.

[Mojambo]

6. And myself.

We all make mistakes.

[Cha]

7. Yeah, I was lucky I never

got a dui before I stopped drinking.

THe thing with bush, though, is his trying to hide it like every thing else in his existence.

[Mojambo]

15. Agreed.

The rest of us were forced to live up to our mistakes. Bush wasn't then (thanks to Daddy) and he still doesn't to this day.

[madison2000]

2. ok CJ =Celebrity Justice not CJ character on West Wing

I kept picturing the press secretary/chief of staff getting ready to report on the First Lady. :hi:

[pres2032]

9. haha, i'm glad i'm not the only one that thought of her.

[KitchenWitch]

16. and I thought CJ was the gossip columnist

for the Star-Tribune (Minneapolis)

[Salviati]

3. At least she didn't hit anyone with her car...

:evilgrin:

[democracyindanger]

4. Celebrity Justice = brain eater

I had the misfortune of catching a tiny bit once. They actually reported (with a paparazzi photo) on Paris Hilton getting a parking ticket.

[bigwillq]

5. Does the real Pickles (mrs. Shrub)

smoke?

I thought in one of the threads last Thurs. someone said something to the extent of "How many nicotine patches is pickles wearing"?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

8. Yeah, Pickles smokes...just check out those pearly non-whites:

:evilgrin:

[sundog]

12. aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

don't do that to me :scared:

[bigwillq]

14. Ok, pics are just pics

but do you know this for a fact that she smokes? Has she ever been "caught" on video or photo?

Why does this interest me I don't know but wouldn't the media kind of make a big deal if she did smoke? But I did forget for a moment that the repukes own the media so maybe they wouldn't make a big deal of it.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

17. I've never seen a photo of her with a cigarette...but...

...the fact that she smokes has been confirmed on DU many, many times.

Where these folks get their information, I couldn't tell you.

I question stuff like "Did Lee Harvey Oswald actually kill Kennedy, and did he act alone," but when it comes to Pickles smoking, when someone on DU says she does, it's all the confirmation I need.

:evilgrin:

[Borgnine]

10. Too bad she didn't hit a boyfriend.

Otherwise she'd be qualified to be the real first lady.

And yes, I laughed at "CJ." It's like a West Wing episode come to life.

[WCGreen]

11. A while back someone posted actressess over 55

you'd like to she bop with, There you have it.....

I forgive her for the DUI, but Rizzo in Grease, that shall always be a blot on her career.....

[brook]

13. Did she kill her fiance? n/t

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

18. Yes

http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp



In May 2000, a two-page police report pertaining to a fatal accident that had taken place near Midland, Texas, in 1963 was made public. It Laura Bush contained the information that 17-year-old Laura Welch had run a stop sign, causing the death of the sole occupant of the vehicle hers had struck. According to that report, the future First Lady had been driving her Chevrolet sedan on a clear night shortly after 8 p.m. on 6 November 1963 when she entered an intersection without heeding the stop sign and there collided with the Corvair sedan driven by 17-year-old Michael Douglas. Also in the car with Laura Welch was a passenger, 17-year-old Judy Dykes.

How fast Miss Welch might have been driving is open to question. That part of the police report is illegible, although two biographies of the First Lady refer to her as having been going 50 mph at the time of the collision. The speed limit on that portion of road was 55 mph. According to the police report neither driver had been drinking, but no tests were performed. No charges were filed as a result of the accident.

News accounts from 1963 reported the young man as having been thrown from his car and dying of a broken neck; he was pronounced dead on arrival at Midland Memorial Hospital. According to various biographies of Mrs. Bush, the boy's father had been travelling in a car immediately behind his son's and witnessed the whole thing. The two teen girls were taken to the same hospital and treated for minor injuries that amounted to bumps and bruises.

Michael Douglas, the young man who was killed, had been a member of Laura Welch's crowd at high school and her friend. He had been a star athlete, excelling in track and football, and was looked up to by his peers not just for his athlete prowess, but for his personality and intelligence too. By all reports, he was likeable, outgoing, and funny. He was nominated as the school's most popular boy while a junior, an honor that almost always went to a senior. There has always been speculation about the nature of his relationship with Laura Welch. One rumor asserts the two had never dated, but that Laura had been romantically interested in him. Another claims he had been Laura's boyfriend when he died, and another that he had once been her boyfriend but the couple had subsequently broken up. (The latter theory is advanced in the 2002 biography of the Bushes, George and Laura: Portrait of an American Marriage, which states Laura Welch and Michael Douglas had dated throughout early and mid-1963, but by the fall of that year Michael was going out with Regan Gammon, one of Miss Welch's closest friends.)