Rants and raves from around the celebrosphere

Dawn Wells kissed Sherwood Schwartz’ cheek less than a week ago as the Gilligan’s Island creator got his star on Broadway’s Walk of Fame. But a week before that, she pled guilty to a count of reckless driving and was sentenced 5 days in jail and a fine of about $400. Three misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance were dropped. The charges stemmed from October 18th, when she claims to have been adjusting the heater controls on her car, and got pulled over for swerving. She was on her way home from a surprise 69th birthday party.

Well, surprise! The officer smelled marijuana, and found two cases for holding the weed, and some half-smoked joints. Wells had a perfectly reasonable and believable explanation. She’d just given a ride to 3 hitchhikers, but when they started smoking “something” she dropped them off. I guess they were too high to remember to take their dope with them. She did fail a sobriety test, though, which must explain why she dumbly picked up not just one hitchhiker, but three!

Her lawyer said that a friend of hers left some pot in her car earlier that day, and that must have been what the officer found. So she has at least one pot-smoking friend who brings dope into her car and leaves it there, and when she picks up complete strangers off the street, three of them, at night, while she’s driving alone, they’re all pot-heads who leave weed behind, too. All in the same day. Wow, what a coincidence! But it has to be true. She was Mary Ann, for gosh sakes. And we all know that Ginger was the really naughty one.