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When a judge found out that Paula Poundstone had violated her probation, she was jailed briefly on Tuesday. Earlier this year she was spared jail time by agreeing to go to rehab and participate in community service for 200 hours...
SENTENCED. PAULA POUNDSTONE, 41, comedian; to five years' probation, six months of rehabilitation and 200 hr. of community service; for endangering her three adopted and two foster children; in Santa Monica, Calif. Poundstone, whose children are currently in state care, was barred from taking in foster kids again. She admitted, "My drinking helped to create a dangerous situation...
...knocked around is hardly doing her perilous and nomadic childhood justice. Left at a Manhattan foundling home by a mother “panic-stricken and ungovernable in her haste to have done” with her newborn baby, and a father seemingly incapacitated by love and alcohol, Paula eventually found her way into the care of Reverend Elwood Corning, a loving and heroic Congregationalist minister in upstate New York. At the age of six, Paula’s parents resurfaced, sending for her from Hollywood, where her father, Paul Fox, was a small-time screenwriter and big-time partier...
...children’s author who is finally receiving accolades for her more mature works. Personally, she has been happily married for 40 years and triumphantly reunited with the daughter she reluctantly gave up for adoption so long ago. After reading Borrowed Finery, it would be hard to begrudge Paula Fox any of her current nativity...
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