Nanny

On September 19, 2009, NANNIE MANN; loving mother of Barbara Mann; devoted grandmother of six grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren, quietly passed away. Friends may call at the JOSEPH L. RUSS FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 2222 W. North Avenue on Thursday from 3 to 8 P.M. Family Hour Friday 10 A.M., with funeral to follow at 10:30 A.M., at Gospel Tabernacle Baptist Church, 3100 Walbrook Avenue.

On July 10, 2009, NANNIE BEATRICE PAYLOR SLOAN. On Friday, friends may call Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Services (EAST), 4905 York Road where the family will receive friends from 4 to 8 P.M. On Saturday, services will be held at Zion Baptist Church, 1700 Caroline Street, where the family will receive friends from 10:30 to 11 A.M. with services to follow. Inquiries to 410-433-7500.

The 8-month-old baby girl had fallen asleep in her stroller, and her nanny, Siwei Yao, decided to push her back to her Bolton Street home. It was shortly before 2 p.m., a sunny afternoon on Monday on tree-shaded Bolton Street, in front of a church, and Yao paid no attention as two men in T-shirts walked by. Then one of the men grabbed her from behind in a chokehold and knocked her to the ground. "I couldn't breathe," the 24-year-old Yao said. "He hit me on the back. I couldn't scream."

Three cheers for the Nanny State! Long may she live. This affirmation is inspired by a comment on the Getting There blog. It came in response to my report that the parents of Heather Leigh Hurd, a young woman killed in a crash by a truck driver who was text-messaging at the time, plan to return to Annapolis next year to seek a strengthening of the watered-down bill that passed this year. The commenter wrote: "With all due respect to the Hurds, this won't do anything. More 'nanny' laws won't help bring their daughter back or prevent accidents from happening in the future."

On October 24, 2008 NANNIE. Visitation 2140 N. Fulton Avenue Wednesday 3 to 8P.M. Family will receive friends in the chapel Thursday 12:00P.M. Funeral to follow at 12:30PM.

On August 8, 2008, NANNIE B. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Wednesday after 8 A.M. The family will receive friends at Holy Comfort Lutheran Church, 5513 York Road on Thursday at 10:30 A.M. Funeral Services will follow at 11 A.M.

On May 6, 2008, NANNIE EVANS. Friends may call Today, Sunday, May 11, at Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Services (EAST), 4905 York Road, where the family will receive friends from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Services will be held on Monday at Prince of Peace Baptist Church, 600 N. Linwood Street, where the family will receive friends from 10:30 to 11:00 a.m. with services to follow. Inquiries to 410-433-7500.

She takes -- and makes -- a good picture. And now, at the steep age of 22, Scarlett Johansson will find out if she can open a romantic comedy. The Nanny Diaries, based on the best-selling novel by two former Manhattan nannies, opens in theaters today. Johansson plays a college graduate who shirks the corporate track to become a Park Avenue nanny. There are snooty parents. There is the precocious kid. There is the hunky love interest. There is Scarlett Johansson. A born New Yorker, Johansson is a glamour girl who once lounged on the cover of Vanity Fair with nothing on but her makeup.

OH, NO! We talk all the time about Lindsay Lohan. There's going to be none of that. He's gonna stay normal." That's what Sharon Art, the strikingly attractive mother of 8-year-old actor Nicholas Art, said while watching her adorable boy sign autographs at Swifty's on Monday night. She added, "We'd rather he become George Clooney." Nicholas is the child who steals Scarlett Johansson's heart in the film version of The Nanny Diaries based on Emma Mclaughlin and Nicola Kraus' best-seller, about the harrowing experience of an Upper East Side nanny.