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THE COAST NEWS
JULY 29, 2011
Woman finds the big and the ‘Schmall’ in life for greeting cards, was a masDEL MAR — She’s sage therapist, a hypnotheraimpersonated a 20th century pist — and that’s only just the San Francisco madam, pro- beginning. “I’m not sure what it is, or duced and cast films, modeled
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where it started,but I feel life is like a highway under construction,” Jacquie Schmall said. “We get up in the morning and we come down this little high-
way, its familiar, and suddenly there’s an off ramp. Oh, I wonder where it goes. “Some people would say, ‘Eh, I’m busy, that’s OK, my
highway’s fine.’ I go to every off ramp. I figure nothing ventured, nothing gained. So I learn how to garden, or I learn how to paint, or I learn how to act.And I keep going on the off ramps…And here I am, and I keep starting things.” Schmall has a selfdescribed eccentric background. She came to California from Connecticut when she was 53 after seeing an open door,leading to choices that she had never had before. “I was brought up as an only-child to be neat, to be clean; and I got married and had kids and never really evolved. And then I came to California and I met all the hippies and all the guys left over from Haight-Ashbury.” During her time in Northern California, she discovered Sally Stanford, a San Francisco madam in the 1900s who later became mayor of Sausalito. Schmall began impersonating the sharptongued Stanford, appearing in parades and private parties.
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Schmall said Standford became a hero of hers because of her strong personality. “She was eccentric and colorful, and today most of us don’t want to do that,” Schmall said. Schmall has also modeled for a series of greeting cards called, “Oh Jackie!” which was later turned into a book called, TURN TO SCHMALL ON A16
Man convicted for assault By Shelli DeRobertis
VISTA — Danny Vinci, 44, was convicted July 21 of four felony counts, including assault with a caustic chemical when he threw gasoline on his exwife and tried to light her on fire outside of an Oceanside dance studio in March 2010. Vinci, a felon who has been in and out of prison several times, was out on bail following a drug charge when he approached his ex-wife while she was waiting to pick up her granddaughter. Prosecutor Keith Watanabe said Vinci and his exwife had an on-and-off relationship, and weeks before the gasoline attack she claimed that Vinci beat and choked her, which caused the end of the relationship. Vinci fled from police after the attack and was booked at the Vista Detention Facility 15 days later and held on a $1 million bail. He was charged with assault with a caustic chemical, making a criminal threat, resisting arrest, failure to appear in a felony case, a domestic violence charge and also a drug charge. Watanabe said Vinci has spent the majority of the past 10 years in prison.He now faces up to 28 years in prison after being found guilty on all counts related to the gasoline attack. The victim testified that Vinci surprised her in the parking lot and when she tried to exit her car, he pinned her inside and squirted gasoline all over her. “If I didn’t get out of the situation,I was going to go up in flames,” she said. Vinci is scheduled to be sentenced by Superior Court Judge Harry Elias Aug. 17. The trial came after a mistrial was declared earlier in the year. Watanabe said they were two weeks into the trial and questioning an ex-girlfriend of the defendant, when she accidentally blurted out something that was inadmissible in court.