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Disco biscuits, Spanish fly: Cosby lawyers to argue evidence
Disco biscuits, Spanish fly and quaaludes could be on the agenda when Bill Cosby is in court for the latest showdown over evidence in his Pennsylvania sexual-assault case. Cosby’s lawyers want to bar from the June trial any mention of quaaludes, also called disco biscuits. He was in court Monday.
Cosby has acknowledged getting the quaaludes in the 1970s to give women before sex. But his lawyers say that’s irrelevant because they were banned 20 years before he met the trial accuser.
Suburban Philadelphia prosecutors want to argue that the actor’s experience with quaaludes shows he’s familiar with date rape drugs. They also want to introduce a boyhood story from Cosby’s 1991 book “Childhood” about the supposed aphrodisiac Spanish fly.
The 79-year-old Cosby is accused of drugging and molesting a woman at his
Birthday surprise for ageless Doris Day: She’s actually 95
To Doris Day’s many admirers, the pert and fresh-faced charmer who starred in “Pillow Talk” and “Move Over Darling” is ageless.
But Day turned 95 on Monday — which is a birthday surprise even to the star herself, who has long pegged her age to a 1924 birthdate that would make her 93.
A copy of Day’s birth certificate, obtained by the Associated Press from Ohio’s Office of Vital Statistics, settles the issue: Doris Mary Kappelhoff, her pre-fame name, was born April 3, 1922, making her 95.
“I’ve always said that age is just a number, and I have never paid much attention to birthdays, but it’s great to finally know how old I really am!” Day said Sunday.