From the "Honk My Hooter" files and Yahoo! News...

(Sudiegirl's note...this photo is from the unfinished Francis Ford Coppola remake of "The Little Rascals" with Christian Slater as Alfalfa. Darla better watch her ass...snotty comments as usual are interspersed. Also, please don't take any comments of mine seriously in this entry...I know what it's like to be touched when you don't want to be and in inappropriate geographical locations, etc. I'm just making light of how anything and everything a celebrity does makes the news, and the fact that normal people handle this a lot differently and a lot more sanely. Insensitivity is not my goal, just making fun of celebrities. Thanks!)


Christian Slater Turns Down Plea Deal (In other words, he didn't cop a plea, but he did cop a feel!)

Thursday July 14 11:11 AM ET

Christian Slater rejected a plea bargain deal from prosecutors Thursday on a charge of allegedly groping a woman.
(Ya know, this may be totally un-feminist of me, but I can think of plenty of other people that I would NOT want to feel me up...the dancing old guy in the Six Flags commercials, Rodney Bingenheimer, Tom Cruise...the list goes on, and I don't remember if Christian Slater is on there or not.)

Slater was charged with forcible touching, a misdemeanor that carries up to one year in jail, after he allegedly walked up behind a woman and grabbed her buttocks as she was buying a soda in a small grocery store on Manhattan's Upper East Side in the early morning of May 31.
(I took enough legal assistant courses to know why the word "allegedly" is used, but I still giggle when I hear it. If he didn't "allegedly" walk, what did he "allegedly" do? Scamper? Skip? Cavort? Crawl? Limp? And about the grabbing the buttocks thing...if that had happened to me and I didn't WANT it to happen to me, a fast mule-type kick to the ol' Slater family jewels would have been what I'd done, especially in a store full of people. But that's me...the poor lady was probably so surprised that a celebrity grabbed her ass she didn't know whether to rack him or ask him for an autograph. Personally, I think she made the right choice.)

"We believe this case warrants dismissal," said lawyer Eric Franz, in turning down a proposal that Slater perform three days of community service. Under the plea bargain offer, Slater would have pleaded guilty to a charge of second-degree harassment in return for the community service.
(I would love to know what kinds of things celebs do for community service. Do any of my readers know what they do? Enlightenment is most welcome. Thanks!)

The 35-year-old actor said nothing during the brief hearing before Criminal Court Judge Richard Weinberg. Afterward, outside the lower Manhattan courthouse, he complied with a fan's request to autograph the side of her T-shirt, near the hem.
(OK, where was the lawyer during this? Sounds like recidivism to me!)

Weinberg set a date of Aug. 19 for lawyers to file any motions in the case. Slater was ordered to return to court on Sept. 19, when the judge said he would rule on the motions.
(And if Smokey Robinson and the Miracles were there, they would "Second That Emotion", right? I know, it's a stinker, but ROLL with it, OK?)

Slater, whose movies include "Heathers," "Broken Arrow" and "True Romance," told reporters he was due in London at the end of September to rehearse for his role in the play "Sweet Bird of Youth."

According to authorities, Slater and his girlfriend were arguing at a bodega on Manhattan's Upper East Side at 1:50 a.m. The complainant, who has not been identified, was in the same store. She flagged down police, who located Slater a short distance away, authorities said.
(So Slater argues with a girl, goes inside and grabs the ass of another girl? Would he just argue that he was checking the melons to see if they're fresh? Nobody could be that stupid, could they?)

Slater was sentenced to 90 days in jail for an August 1997 incident where he reportedly bit one man in the stomach and threw a police officer against a wall during a rowdy Los Angeles party.

Sudiegirl's final opinion?

Ya know, Slater really just needs to learn the appropriate "zones". They teach that to special education student...maybe they need to have another class for celebrities that can't keep their hands to themselves. Lots less lawsuits that way...

Grabbingly yours,
Sudiegirl