The recently announced cancellation of uber terror show, 24 — after eight, long, years — indicates the positive, rising, tide we are feeling once again in the USA. The Boogeyman is dead, the faux superhero is no longer necessary, and bad drama has finally been put to rest.
As we search for examples of triumph over the human condition for our students to emulate, we are sometimes led into the stale pages of literature and the dusky hallways of history for keen reminders of teachable moments. Roger Ebert — one of our current premier, and popular, movie critics — has been fighting cancer for eight years. At 67, and after multiple surgeries and reconstructions, Roger is left with no jawbone, thyroid or salivary glands. I submit the notion that all our students should be made aware of Roger’s ongoing fight against a foe that continues to aim to kill him and his repeated refusal to give in to the inevitable ending of us all.
B.B. King, at 84, is the greatest Blues guitarist in the world. In 2003, Rolling Stone named B.B. King as the third best guitarist in the world out of 100. There is a secret few people know about B.B. King and his ability to play the guitar and I will share it with you now.
Comedian Chris Rock is having a Bad Hair Day. His new movie, “Good Hair” is twisting in the wind under the accusation that he stole the idea for his movie from another movie.
There are few movie trailers that are so stunningly effective that you actually recoil from the screen in your seat. Meet “The Cove” and start your recoil:
Brad Pitt’s new “Benjamin Button” movie is in the same “idiot savant as genius” genre as the ridiculous and ridicule-worthy “Forrest Gump” before it — but is that plot association a little too cute and way too similar to be a coincidence? Here’s a hilarious video comparison for your discerning mind:
UPDATE: The video was removed! Too close a comparison for comfort, I guess. Since there’s no such thing as a coincidence, I think the video’s removal expresses the remorse of those that did the imitating.
Valkyrie is dead at the box office and it’s all Tom Cruise’s fault. As
someone wiser than us recently said about the former superstar: “No
movie star has been around so long and has yet been so hated as Tom
Cruise.”
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