A 46-year-old convicted child sex offender who violated his probation by taking his family to see "Toy Story 3" at a Livingston County theater has been ordered to serve 90 days’ house arrest.
Michael Keeler of Gregory also was ordered to pay $125 a month toward more than $4,000 in outstanding court fees.
Keeler’s probation prohibits him from being within 1,000 feet of "places primarily used by people age 17 or under." An electronic tether confirmed he was in the theater.
Keeler was sentenced in May 2008 to serve five years’ probation after being convicted of second-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a person under 13.
Defense attorney Douglas Mullkoff tells the Livingston County Daily Press & Argus that Keeler had completed a sex offender’s education program.
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Sex offender violated probation at ‘Toy Story 3’
Lindsay Lohan takes big girl notes, almost gets taken seriously.
Nobody can accuse Lindsay Lohan of not doing her homework.
During the hearing on Tuesday that led to the starlet's 90-day jail sentence, the actor was seen writing with a red pen. Later, she covered her face with the page, inadvertently showing it to the cameras. What appears in high-resolution photos of that page will surprise anyone who thought Lohan was just a party girl: Turns out, she's an expert note-taker as well!
In meticulous, rather amazing block penmanship, Lohan appears to have recorded every bit of the proceedings. At the top, she notes, "Dad's sitting behind Liana," (likely a reference to Aliana, aka "Ali," her sister) and refers to "so-called friends." The rest is a timeline of the alcohol-awareness classes that "LL," as she refers to herself, took and missed during the period of time she was ordered to attend them.
Photos: Lindsay's dramatic day in court
Lohan leaving court after learning of her 90-day jail sentence. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images These notes add a cryptic layer to the troubled former child actor's persona. With her frequent Twitter rants and late-night hijinks, one might expect Lohan's notes to more closely resemble doodles, or the curse word she had painted on the rainbow-swirled nail of her middle finger (which Lohan claims was "a joke"). But there's nothing ditzy about the impressively neat document, which looks more like the notes of a lawyer than a starlet.
Lohan might have learned her note-taking skills in high school, where she was a straight-A student who reportedly excelled in science and math. Though Lohan turned down film roles to attend Cold Spring Harbor High School in her Long Island hometown, she later left and was homeschooled.
Another sign Lohan might be getting serious? She skipped her planned belated 24th birthday party at a club Wednesday night, instead reportedly staying home to celebrate with family and friends.
Despite her responsible note-taking, Lohan may still be bitter about her sentence, she took to Twitter to quote the U.S. Constitution and, "impressively", referring to Article 5 of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights' prohibition against "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." After displaying her laudable legal-research abilities, Lohan ended her Twitter outburst with an entreaty to retweet a link to a Newsweek story about an Iranian woman awaiting a stoning as punishment for an adultery conviction.
Lohan has been ordered to surrender to her jail term on July 20 and spend the next 90 days in an in-patient rehab facility. At that time, she won't have lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley by her side: Chapman resigned on Thursday, telling UsMagazine.com she and Lindsay are "very disappointed" by the sentence handed down on Tuesday.
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Lady Gaga at Yoko Ono's house!
@seanonolennon:With gaga at mom's house, she's belting on the white piano...
Yes, that is Lady Gaga on John Lennon's piano, at Yoko Ono's house.
Rihanna’s Philips concert canceled
After hearing reports that Rihanna’s concert, planned for July 28 at Philips Arena, was suffering poor ticket sales, we have now heard it has been canceled.
Our source is an insider who’s been working with promoters.
Rihanna was to have performed with Ke$ha.
It’s just the latest in a long string of summer concert cancelations. Here locally, 50 Cent was to have played the Tabernacle but scrapped the show, presumably due to low ticket sales. On Friday night, Liza Minnelli’s planned concert at Chastain Park Amphitheatre was scotched. The performer sent a statement saying that complications following knee surgery forced the move.
And Lilith Fair dropped its planned Aug. 8 date.
Rihanna’s concert is still listed on the Philips events calendar and the Live Nation Web site, although some of her other concerts are listed as “canceled” on the Live Nation site. She was to have performed July 22 and 24 in Phoenix and Dallas and Aug. 3 in Indiana, for example. All of those dates are now scotched.
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Kelly Rowland is ‘Proud’ of Herself for Waiting to Get Implants
Kelly Rowland wanted a boob job for a long time, but the singer said it was worth waiting 10 years to actually go through with it. ”I’m very happy with myself. For me, my story behind it was making young people think before they actually do something,” she told BBC Radio of her decision to get implants back in 2007.
Kelly said she struggled with her body image and wanted the surgery back in her Destiny’s Child days: “When I initially thought about that, I was 17 years old,” she said. “That’s a ridiculous age to make a decision to do something different to your body.”
She eventually went under the knife to boost her A-cup to a B-cup a decade later.
“For me, it was waiting. That’s the message I actually had to say. When people found out about it, one person asked me and I just couldn’t lie. I didn’t feel the reason to lie.”
She added: ”I’m really proud of myself that I waited. That’s 10 years I waited. That’s 10 years I was like, ‘I hate this top. It does not fit. I hate this top.”
Too bad Kelly never realized in those 10 years that she was beautiful the way she was (sigh…what the industry does to folks), but to each her own. At least she thought out the decision instead of rushing into alter her body and at least she had sense enough to not get some big old, tacky, basketball-sized implants like some of these chicks out there!
Janet Jackson talks about Michael Jackson's Drug Problem
Janet Jackson says her brother Michael's prescription drug use wasn't a secret to family members.
"People think we were in denial but we weren't," the star of Why Did I Get Married Too? told Oprah on Friday. "We tried intervention several times. He was very much in denial. He didn't think he had a problem."
During one of interventions, Janet said she became so distraught "seeing him and knowing that there was an issue that he was in denial about" that she had to leave the room. Adding: "A lot of the relationships I've been in, they've had issues with addiction. It's difficult when you see it. [I] recognize it so quickly because I've dealt with it in past relationships."
Janet says that the last time she saw Michael was a month before his death at a Jackson family party Janet threw for their parents Katherine, who is now the guardian of Michael's three children, and Joe.
"He was thin then, and we knew that he had a problem," she said. "We all did."
Michael died last June at the age of 50. The autopsy released by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office concluded that he was the victim of a homicide, backing the coroner’s initial determination that he died from “acute propofol intoxication.” His personal doctor, Conrad Murray, told police he gave the King of Pop the sedative to help him sleep. In addition to propofol, a second sedative lorazepam was also primary responsible for Michael's death. There was also Midazolam, Diazepam, Lidocaine and Ephedrine in his system.
SOURCE: Star Magazine