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From The Associated Press

Actress Sean Young has entered rehabilitation for alcohol abuse following a weekend outburst in which she was heckling from the audience at the Directors Guild of America awards.

The 48-year-old actress was escorted from the ballroom at the Hyatt Regency in Century City Saturday night after sparring with Julian Schnabel, who was nominated for “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.”

“Actress Sean Young voluntarily admitted herself yesterday to a rehabilitation center for treatment related to alcoholism,” a statement from Insignia PR said Tuesday. “It is understood that Young has struggled against the disease for many years.”

Aaaaaaay! The Fonz will be returning to Milwaukee later this year — permanently, and in bronze.

A statue of Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli, the leather-jacketed biker from “Happy Days,” will be erected in the city where the TV sitcom was set, now that local groups have raised the $85,000 needed to do it, civic leaders said last week.

Henry Winkler, who played Fonzie during the show’s run from 1974 to 1984, called the “Bronze the Fonz” project “a phenomenal compliment.”

“It’s not often you have a dream when you’re 7 lying in your bed, you get to live your dream out and then someone is going to erect a life-size statue of your creation,” he said.

Plans call for dedicating the statue around Labor Day. It will likely be downtown along the Milwaukee River.