- Gambling was the theme last night’s episode of Greek, both in the casino sense of the word and outside of it. With the Omega Chi’s hosting their annual casino night, several interested parties were looking to cash in for the $2,000 prize. There was Ashleigh, who was greeted by a ginormous bill from her charge card that she used to finance spring break. Unfortunately, she had signed up for a charge card and not a credit card, meaning the full balance needed to be paid each month. That left her scrambling for a way to pay the bill, so winning the casino night pot seemed like a fortuitous chance. She and BFF Casey enlisted the help of their friendly neighborhood dork, Casey’s little brother Rusty. When he proved a less than stellar teacher, he turned to his RA Max, who knew more than enough about counting cards. Rusty’s help was to earn him the right to borrow Casey’s car for a couple of hours, something he needed to make a supply run for his fraternity house. Max was to earn 10 percent of the pot, $200, although he ended up being more interested in Casey than the money. Even with Max’s gambling know-how, a cheating astrophysics major named Jason was the chip leader heading into the final hour of the night. However, Rusty and Calvin teamed up to foil Jason’s cheating system of marking cards and with Ashleigh distracting Jason by pretending to havea crush on him, the counter-plan worked, eliminating Jason after a bad bet. That left Max and Cappie, on hand with girlfriend Rebecca Logan, for the final hand. When Max suddenly got spooked by his new crush on Casey, he made a bad bet of his own and bailed, making Cappie the victor. He was happy to have the money because his beloved Jeep, a.k.a. the Brontosaurus, was on the verge of death and needed repairs. Rebecca offered to buy him a new car or fix his old one, but his pride kept Cappie from accepting her offer. Things between Cappie and Rebecca have been on the rocks ever since news of her father’s scandal from a prostitution ring surfaced and Cappie’s reaction was the be his usual goofy self to try to cheer Rebecca up. To compensate, she decides to keep her family, serious life and her fun, Cappie side of life separate. That works until the issue of the car gift surfaces, with Rebecca accusing Cappie of being unable to accept the car because it would mean they were getting serious and he couldn’t handle that. With that, Rebecca informs Cappie that she needs someone more mature and able to be serious, which she feels he can’t be, so they are now broken up. Gambling and money were also the plot for Evan Chambers, who was looking forward to receiving his trust fund from his parents with his 21st birthday fast approaching. However a visit from his mother provided an unwanted surprise: a conditional trust fund. He would receive his money as long as he followed the plan laid out for his life of going to Harvard Law School, not getting married until age 25, following in the footsteps of his father and keeping alive his goal of becoming a senator. If, however, he follows the path of his older brother and goes “off the map” with his life, he won't get the trust fund. Evan debates which way to go, with Calvin encouraging him not to make a cash grab and new girlfriend Frannie encouraging him to stick with the plan and live the trust fund life. Despite a couple of long glances at old flame Casey which seemed to hint a desire to go away from the pre-prescribed plan for his life, Evan apparently chooses the path lined with dollar signs, earning him the first chunk of his trust fund money that he uses to buy an expensive new sports car. As the episode ends, he and Frannie head off for a long weekend at Martha’s Vineyard, while Casey stops by Max’s room to see if he’s okay and to suggest that he hang out with her at Dobler’s some time. There’s the obvious, intentional tension and attraction there, but for that to be worked out, you’ll have to wait. So until next week, that’s it and that’s all……
- Well lookee here, the Great White will finally pay. More than five and a half years after their pyrotechnics sparked a fire that killed 100 people and injured many more at a West Warwick, R.I. nightclub, the band will pony up $1 million to survivors and victims’ relatives. This offer brings to $175 million the total offered by various defendants - the club, the band, the cameraman from a local TV station who blocked an exit during the blaze - offered in settlement money. Of course, as part of the settlement, the band admits no wrongdoing, which is common in this type of agreement. Yeah, we’ll pay you copious amounts of jack after a horrific incident, but this in no way means we did anything wrong. We’re just paying you out of the goodness of our heart. Regardless of fault, this has been a lng and bitter battle, one in which the people of West Warwick have never lost their bitterness and resentment for anyone involved in the fire. The club’s owners were the only ones who went to jail, each of them pleading no contest to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter, but even they are back out in society. The Station night club is a charred pile of rubble, a continual reminder of that horrific night. The Great White should pay up for its part in the fire, what with its manager being the one who set off the pyrotechnics that night. The money they’re paying is a pittance in the big picture, a fraction of the reparations they owe for all the trauma they helped to cause…..
- Maybe this is just me being easily amazed, but how does anyone allow themselves to get drawn into a fight of any kind aboard an airplane? There are a lot of public places you can brawl and get away with it - a bar, a back alley, aboard a crowded train in the right city, at a sporting event in a dark corner of the stadium - but rest assured, a plane is not one of them. You brawl on a flight, you’re going to jail, no questions asked. Risking the lives of dozens or hundreds of people and maybe thousands more in the event of a crash, it’s something people tend to take seriously. So when I heard that a JetBlue flight from Boston to Fort Lauderdale was diverted Saturday because a fight broke out after one passenger was discovered smoking in the bathroom, I was in a temporary state of disbelief. The incident happened aboard JetBlue Flight 455 and resulted in one passenger being taken into custody at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina after the plane landed about 5:45 p.m. According to a federal Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman, one passenger was punched in the face and three people were involved total, three people believed to be related. Best of all, witnesses said the scuffle was between two brothers, one of whom was angry that his brother had smoked on a plane. So what to do? Punch your brother in the face, that’s what! Hey knob, I hate smoking more than anyone, but if someone - even my brother - is lighting up in the airplane restroom, I’m letting the flight crew deal with it. They can tell if someone is smoking in the restroom; it’s only three feet by three feet. By breaking out your fists of pain and punching your brother, you not only ensured that he would be caught smoking, you ensured that both of you a-holes would go to jail. Furthermore, you forced your fellow passengers to be held at the North Carolina airport for about two hours while FBI investigators interviewed them. In other words, you ruined everyone’s evening and all because your brother is a moron and you’re a tool who can’t control his temper and exercise the most rudimentary judgment about when is and when isn't an appropriate time to sock your sibling in the grill…….
- At this rate, Braylon Edwards should just concede his bet with friend and Olympic legend Michael Phelps. One game into the NFL season, Edwards has racked up exactly zero touchdowns, meaning he’s 16 TD’s away from where he needs to be. Aside from not doing much to help his team win in a 28-10 home loss to Dallas, Edwards is also chasing a bet he made with Phelps prior to the Summer Olympics in Beijing, which stated that Edwards would score twice as many touchdowns as Phelps won gold medals in Beijing. The two of them are pals because for the past four years, Phelps trained at Edwards’ alma mater, the University of Michgian. So they struck up the bet and when Phelps earned his astonishing eighth gold medal, Edwards knew the bar was set at 16. He got a chance to see plenty of Phelps’ Olympic action on TV, what with the foot injury he sustained in training camp that kept him mostly off his feet. No word on what the winner gets from the bet, but I’m guessing it involves a little cash, among other things. Better start finding the end zone if you don’t wanna lose this bet, Braylon……and oh yeah, it might help your team not to get annihilated again…..
- Why am I not surprised? Hearing that production on the set of 24 will shut down for two weeks is the least surprising thing I’ve heard since learning that Rosie O’Donnell is still fat. After taking a year off last TV season and experiencing countless delays once things started back up (your star getting picked up for DUI will do that), a two-week hiatus because your executive produced isn't happy with scripts and the creative direction of the new season is no big deal. So starting Sept. 15, production will shut down and the show's creative direction will be re-evaluated after executive producer Howard Gordon voiced dissatisfaction with scripts. Nothing like the EP being so unhappy that he orders a production stop while rewrites take place. Right now, the plan is for things resume on Oct. 9, but this isn't actually as bad of a bit of news as you might think. See, production on Season 7 is actually ahead of schedule, with eight episodes already in the can from last year, filmed pre-writers' strike, and episode 18 of this season set to be completed before the break. Plus, the season will still kick off with a two-hour movie prequel in January. So it’s not as bad as it looks, Bauer-heads, so just calm down…..
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