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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — West Palm Beach police said they exposed a scheme by three women from Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, who demanded a payout from a restaurant, claiming there was a rock in their food that broke a tooth. The three arrests stem from an incident on Sept. 22, 2023 at the Avocado Grill located at 125 Datura St., police said. West Palm Beach police spokesman Mike Jachles said in a news release that Ann Sherry Miller, 45, of Aventura, acted as an injured diner who claimed to have broken a tooth from a rock in a salad,...

Ann Miller was 81 when she died, but for most of the last several decades she was usually described as “ageless”, which she was — ageless, that is, in the sense that nobody of any age looks like that. I saw her on stage thrice and met her a couple of times, and I liked the way she existed in a kind of self-created fantasy world. No point comparing her with anyone. She was a good-natured broad, who had an agreeable dollop of self-parody about her, as if she figured the best thing she could do was stick as close...

Terrible loss.

LOS ANGELES - Ann Miller (news), the raven-haired, long-legged actress and dancer whose machine-gun taps won her stardom during the golden age of movie musicals, died Thursday of lung cancer. She was 81.   Miller died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said Esme Chandlee, her longtime friend and former publicist. A onetime childhood dance prodigy, she reached the peak of her film career at MGM in the late 1940s and early '50s with "On the Town," "Easter Parade" and "Kiss Me Kate." She remained a dazzling tapper in her 60s and earned millions on Broadway and touring with Mickey Rooney (news)...