Thursday, August 17, 2006

AP buries the lede again

So Haley Joel Osment was charged with drunken driving and marijuana possession in California, but The Associated Press put the key part of the story well down in the story, as it has a tendency to do.

From the last paragraph of the story: "Authorities said Osment was driving home alone about 1 a.m. on July 20 when his 1995 Saturn hit a mailbox in the La Canada Flintridge area and flipped over."

So either Haley, who is 18, is a thrifty lad or all of his money is still locked up in trust for him somewhere. And the shame is, in Hollywood, the fact he drives a '95 Saturn will be the most embarrassing part of the story.

(By the way, this reminds us of the greatest New York Knicks story of all time, in which we learned that in 2000, then-coach Jeff Van Gundy drove a Honda Civic that got tossed into the air and flipped when the team's jet taxied too close.)

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