Sarah Anne Hughes in her article,”Estella Warren arrested for alleged DUI, escape and assault,” reported today:
Estella Warren. (Kevin Winter – Getty Images) Actress Estella Warren has been arrested for allegedly hitting three cars in Los Angeles while driving under the influence, then resisting arrest and attempting to escape the police station Monday night into Tuesday morning.
TMZ is reporting that Warren, best known for the film “The Plant of the Apes,” hit three parked cars while driving a Toyota Prius. Police attempted to arrest her for driving under the influence, but the actress reportedly resisted arrest and kicked an officer. She then allegedly attempted to escape the police station but was caught.
According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Web site, Warren has been booked on a felony escape charge and is being held on $100,000 bail. As Vulture pointed out, the birth date on the document would make Warren 40, rather than 32, the age listed on her IMDB and Wikipedia.
We’ve called Warren’s management and will update with the response.
(Source: TMZ)
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The former pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church, Memphis, Tennessee, Dr. Robert G. Lee used to say: “Sin will take you farther than you want to go, Sin will keep you longer than you want to stay, Sin will cost you more than you want to pay. Alcohol has a way of biting like a loose snake.
Do you think that Estella Warren had thought out her actions?
My friend Rev Sherwood Haisty Jr. is a minister in California and he is currently working on finishing up his masters degree from the Masters Seminary. Here are some of his thoughts:
Proverbs 23:29-35
(29) Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
(30) They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
(31) Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
(32) At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
(33) Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
(34) Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
(35) They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
The end resultes of drinking “yayin” that is fermented are listed in verses 32-34 as well as back in verse 29. These results come from tarrying long at the wine as verse 30 indicates. Yet the prohibition in verse 31 is not moderation but total abstinence. If one stays away from this type of “yayin” or “onios” they won’t have to worry about getting drunk anyway. This is what Proberbs 23 is stating. It is a matter of wisdom.
I don’t see Jesus as being unwise or violating the principles of Proverbs 23:29-35. That is why I believe that the “onios” that Jesus made was mere grape juice as the Greek term clearly allows for.
That is my honest view on it. I know that there may be many who will disagree with me here on facebook and that is okay. I could write much more to defend it and perhaps will in a note one day.
If a person rejects all the linguistic arguments that Sherwood has given (I agree with all of them though) there is still the scriptures in Romans and I Corinthians concerning not causing a weaker brother to stumble.
Romans 14:21: It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.
I Corinthians 8:13: Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to fall.
It is consistent with the ethic of love for believers and unbelievers alike. Because I am an example to others, I will make certain no one ever walks the road of sorrow called alcoholism because they saw me take a drink and assumed, “if it is alright for Everette Hatcher, it is alright for me.” No, I will choose to set an uncompromising example of abstinence because I love them. The fact is that 1 of every 6 drinkers in the USA are problem drinkers.
Billy Sunday has a great sermon story that illustrates this principle:
I feel like an old fellow in Tennessee who made his living by catching rattlesnakes. He caught one with fourteen rattles and put it in a box with a glass top. One day when he was sawing wood his little five-year old boy;
Jim, took the lid off and the rattler wriggled out and struck him in the cheek. He ran to his father and said, “The rattler has bit me.” The father ran and chopped the rattler to pieces, and with his jackknife he cut a chunk from the boy’s cheek and then sucked and sucked at the wound to draw out the poison. -He looked at little Jim, watched the pupils of his eyes dilate and watched him swell to three times his normal size, watched his lips become parched and cracked, and eyes roll, and little Jim gasped and died.
The father took him in his arms, carried him over by the side of the rattler, got on his knees and said, “God, I would not give little Jim for all the rattlers that ever crawled over the Blue Ridge mountains.”
That is the question that must be answered by everyone no matter what their religious beliefs: Would Jesus have violated Romans and I Corinthians? Should we?
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Release Date: January 17th, 2003
Starring: Jerry O’Connell, Anthony Anderson, Christopher Walken, Dyan Cannon, and Estella Warren
Genre: Comedy
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Rating: PG
Runtime: 94 minutes
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Director: David McNally
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Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Andrew Mason, Chad Oman and Pat Sandston
Writer: Steve Bing and Barry O’Brien
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Charlie Carbone has a beautiful mother (Dyan Cannon), but has been abandoned by his real father, leaving a vacuum for an attentive mobster (Christopher Walken) to sweep in and marry his mother. As Charlie plays on the beach one day, a chubby black child, Louis, tries to engage him in a metal-detecting business, but Charlie blows him off. Another boy, Frankie, throws a football to him, but it goes into the ocean. As Charlie tries to go after it, he almost drowns, but Louis saves him. Louis now insists that Charlie will be forever indebted to him.
As time passes, Walken sets up the now-grown Charlie in a hair studio, from which he gleans a hefty 80% of the profits. Walken also believes Charlie is gay, which is false. The grown-up Frankie collects the money for the mob. The grown-up Louis, who saved Charlie, is still on the scene, and he is still calling Charlie on the fact that he saved his life. Louis asks Charlie to help him deliver TVs to a warehouse, but Louis does something wacky in traffic and gets pulled over by the police. Louis outruns the police, though, and drives straight to the warehouse, which he doesn’t realize is being run by the mob, and by Charlie’s step-dad, Christopher Walken!
The bad guys get arrested, but Louis and Charlie escape, sliding down a garbage shoot. Later, Walken calls in Charlie and Louis to give them a lecture. He offers to give them a chore, though, to redeem themselves. They must deliver a package to a man in Australia, but promise not to open the package.
On the plane, Charlie looks at a pretty girl and flirts with her a bit. Soon Louis and Charlie decide to look inside the bag, so they go back to the bathroom together. They find $100,000 in cash. They scream, “Wow! It’s so big!” They are talking about the bag and the money inside, but it sounds like homosexual talk. When they come out, the flirting girl is no longer interested in Charlie.
In Australia, the guys begin looking for the hand-off man, getting a rental car. In the rental car, the guys hit a kangaroo, and it apparently dies. Charlie wants to bury it, but Louis props it up, puts sunglasses and a jacket on it and takes pictures with it. To their shock, the kangaroo suddenly hops away – with the money in its jacket! Now the guys must find a kangaroo tracker. They find a researcher lady who has a tranquilizer gun, and they hire a drunk guy with pilot’s license who finally agrees to fly overhead and track the wounded roo.
The trio zooms past the hurt kangaroo. In his haste, Louis ends up shooting the pilot in the neck and crashing the plane. They call the hand-off guy and tell him they’ll give the money to him soon. He comes to find them but finds the pilot, takes him hostage, and starts bullying everyone.
The guys locate the researcher again and promise to give her $4,800 toward research if she will help them, but the Aussie mobster takes the researcher hostage and threatens to kill her, Louis and Charlie. Then, Charlie’s stepfather sends another mobster, and Charlie realizes that, unless he stands up to the mob and uses his brain to come up with a clever escape, he and the others will die.
KANGAROO JACK is a moral movie that espouses standing up for truth and life. There is a clear delineation of right and wrong, but there is homosexual humor, body humor, heterosexual humor, and plenty of light foul language. The movie also has some light violence – including threats and mob violence with American and Aussie mobs, but no blood and guts. There is also a car chase with the police and portrayals of drunkenness. The movie portrays the pattern of a boy’s masculinity stripped when a father abandons him, but it also shows the glorious gift of the ability to chose whether or not to be a man, and chose right. Jerry O’Connell and Anthony Anderson make a good comic team, but some of the jokes may elicit a groan from many viewers.
Although KANGAROO JACK is aimed at older children and teenagers, caution should be exercised because of the problematic content cited above.
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SUMMARY: In KANGAROO JACK, two childhood friends, a New York hairstylist and a would-be-entrepreneur, are forced by the mob to deliver a package to Australia, but things go haywire when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo. KANGAROO JACK is recommended only for older children and teenagers, but with caution because of mob violence, slight homosexual humor, plenty of light foul language and portrayals of drunkenness, along with some scatological and heterosexual humor.
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