- Lost has a new night and time slot, as well as a firm return date when the eight new episodes for the show filmed before the writers’ strike will start. The date is Jan. 29, Thursday night at 9 p.m., a move from the show’s previous 10 p.m. Wednesday time slot of previous seasons. If you’re a fan of the show, you know that there was a debate as to whether to air the eight produced episodes now or wait for the writers’ strike to end so the whole season could be shown without a gaping hole in the middle. Despite objections from the show’s execs and producers, ABC had the final word and they’ve elected to bring the show back now. Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, the show’s creators, have warned that there is a mini-cliffhanger at the end of the eighth episode that will be resolved in the ninth episode, but with the strike there could be a massive gap in time that will drive fans crazy, having to wait for the resolution. Either way, I’m pumped for the new season, with the return of Michael and the introduction of flash forwards to complement to regular flashbacks that have been a staple of the show all along. Throughout the eight episodes I’ll be hoping along with the rest of you that this strike ends so we can avoid that big gap, but I’m not that hopeful. Eight episodes or more, it doesn’t matter, because the return of Lost is exactly what this slowly dying TV season need right now.
- Leave your inner thug at home when you visit my little corner of the world, Young Joc. The rapper was arrested in my neck of the woods, at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, for carrying a concealed weapon after a loaded gun was found in his carry-on bag. The 25-year-old, whose real name is Jasiel Robinson, was nabbed at 6:20 a.m. Sunday while trying to board a Delta Airlines flight. Police found a semi-automatic gun and ammo in Young Joc’s bag, which every man, woman, child, infant, trained circus bear and chunk of firewood in America knows is a no-no for air travel. If you can’t take a freaking tube of toothpaste onboard with you because it’s over 3 oz., then how the hell do you think a loaded gun is acceptable? Do you not see the many signs posted all around the airport showing a picture of a gun with a red circle around it and a red slash through the gun? That means no guns, amigo. I knew rappers weren’t the smarest cats around as a general rule, but you have to be a special mixture of stupid and arrogant to think you can blatantly flout airport security rules and bring a loaded gun on a flight. What, no machete, C4 explosives or hunting rifles? Couldn’t fit that detonator in your bag too? While I’m sure that $50,000 in bond money you posted was pocket change for you, why not use some of your money to secure a new brain, one that functions and allows you to understand simple commands like no guns on flights, Young Joc…..
- Bam Margera’s planned theater in his hometown of West Chester, Pa., the theater to go to if you need to get your booze on while you see a movie. Actually, this might make a lot of the crappier movies currently playing in theaters more watchable (yes, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, I’m looking at you). Margera, who rose to fame doing idiotic, dangerous stunts on MTV’s Jackass and Viva La Bam, is one step closer to opening his theater after the West Chester Borough Council agreed to withdraw its objection to Margera’s request for a liquor license for the venue after he agreed to meet certain conditions. After Margera and his crew agreed not to sell packaged goods, the council voted 5-2 to approve the license request, although the liquor control board will hold a hearing for all the teetotalers who still object to the theater being allowed to serve alcohol. Right, because that’s the real concern here, not the crap-tacular movies people are being subjected to. Gawd-awful flicks like Alien vs. Predator: Requiem are a lot more of a problem than kids being around booze and trying to make fake IDs to get their hands on some beer when they go to the movies. Lighten up, losers, and be glad a prominent native of your town wants to bring an economic shot in the arm to your community.
- Ho, ho, ho….you’re fired. While that seems like a Donald Trump or Vince McMahon-esque move, it was done by the ownership of the NBA’s Chicago Bulls, which kicked coach Scott Skiles to the curb on Christmas eve, firing the coach who had led the team to three straight playoff appearances before starting this season 9-17. I’m sure most of the Bulls’ players are broken up about their coach getting broken off like this, what with the fact that nearly all of them hated the tiny, dictatorial hothead. Skiles is one of those uber-authoritarian, overbearing, rules-centric guys who actually picked a fight with his team’s new free-agent signing of last season, Ben Wallace, by refusing to let Big Ben wear his trademark headband in games because Skiles doesn’t allow players to wear headbands. It’s things like that, enforcing moronic, pointless rules for the purpose of control, that grate on players and create resentment. Fact is, that only flies with management if you’re winning, because then they call tell the players to suck it up because your way of doing things is working. But when you fire out of the gate losing 17 of your first 26 games, those same despotic tendencies become a bad thing. Don’t be surprised if the Bulls start playing better, partly because teams often do after a coaching change, but mostly because they’re no longer playing for a coach that most of them despise. That the change came on Christmas Eve is probably the best present every single player on that roster could have gotten this year.
- There are plenty of ways to make it onto the evening news, but most people don’t try to do so in a literal sense. Gerald Richardson, 25, of Chicago wasn’t content with being mentioned on the WLS evening news; he upped the ante by crashing his minivan into the glass exterior wall of the station’s downtown studio during the 10 p.m. news. The crash could be heard on the air and it startled anchorman Ron Burgundy….just kidding. The anchorman was Ravi Baichwal, who shouted “Ho!” and jumped up out of his seat. Richardson has been jailed and charged with property damage and reckless driving, but ironically it looks like alcohol was not involved. Kinda makes you long for those morons outside the window on the Today show who just wave signs and wave at the camera as they try to signal to friends back home who they’re talking to on their cell phones…..
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