Ex-drug addict David Crosby is helping alcoholic teenage actress Drew Barrymore stay straight.
Barrymore, 14, lived with Crosby and his wife, Jan Dance, for three months as part of her program of recovery from alcohol and drug abuse, according to this week's People magazine."I'm an old Hollywood kid, and I knew her story. I felt she had been dealt a short deck, you know, a fifth-generation alcoholic, and I didn't want to see her go down the tubes," Crosby told People.
Crosby, 48, of the rock group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, has a well-documented history of cocaine addiction, hitting bottom in 1983 with an 11-month prison term on drug and weapons convictions. But now he's straight.
Barrymore, the lovable moppet of the movie "E.T.," announced last year that she had struggled with drugs and alcohol since she was 9. When she left a clinic in October, the Crosbys took her in.
Barrymore has rejoined her mother, Ildiko Jaid, is back in school and is free of drugs and alcohol, People reported.
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Barbara Bush's motherly manner makes her the most huggable person in the country, according to the people who proclaimed Sunday National Hugging Day.
Kevin Zaborney of Detroit, who began the Jan. 21 hugging day tradition five years ago, said the first lady was a unanimous choice for the list of huggable celebrities, followed by Bill Cosby, talk show host Arsenio Hall, Cher and Tom Selleck.
"She is so down-to-earth," Zaborney said of Bush. "Since she radiates the genuine image of a motherly person, almost anyone would feel at ease with this huggable quality."
Cher was something of a surprise for the top five.
"Obviously, a lot of men nominated her," Zaborney said. "But that's not why she made the list. Being comfortable with her freedom to be herself and her zest for life encourages an inner glow to come forth from her - enabling her huggable quality to shine."
Frances Leary says a policy of no heavy lifting helped her reach age 104.
"My mother always told me to be a good girl, and if she was here today she'd say `I guess you've been a good girl `cause you made it to 104,"' said Leary, who marked her birthday Friday.
Leary, a lifelong Boston resident, worked in a shoe factory for 22 years before marriage at age 39.
A music lover, she fondly recalled taking part in Irish dances in Boston ballrooms and remembered when phonographs replaced live music.
Leary said she has never been sick a day in her life. When asked for advice on how to reach her age, she said: "I just try to go along and not lift anything heavy."