- “Breaking Bad” is ending, but its stars won't be idle once
it wraps. Leading man Bryan Cranston is set to appear as Lex Luthor in the next
“Superman” movie and fellow “Bad” cast member Aaron Paul is set to join the
cast of ‘Exodus,” the forthcoming epic biblical film from director Ridley Scott. He will
join a man who is himself ending a successful run with a franchise, ex-Batman
hero Christian Bale. Bale has already signed up to star as Moses, while Paul is
"in negotiations" to play Joshua, the Hebrew slave who becomes Moses'
right-hand man and leads the people to the Promised Land after him. Producers
are lining up a strong ensemble cast that also includes Joel Edgerton, who will play
the pharaoh Ramses, as well as Sigourney
Weaver and John Turturro, who will appear as Ramses' mother and father.
The accomplished names on board with the project also includes Oscar-winning
screenwriter Steven Zaillian (“Schindler's List,” “The Girl With The
Dragon Tattoo.”) Scott is currently working on a film called “The
Counsellor,” and once he wraps the movie he will begin working on “Exodus” in
various locations in England, Spain and Morocco. Paul is in the midst of his
and his “Breaking Bad” cast members’ final run on AMC. Their fifth and final
season has only five episodes remaining and Paul is on record as saying that
the home stretch for the show is going to give fans plenty to talk about and
remember. He recently tweeted, “You guys are gonna sh*t your pants!” in talking
about what lay ahead for the show……..
- Onion anger is raging in India. If it sounds absurd, in reality it
is anything but. Monsoon rains weeks ago sent prices for the popular food
skyrocketing in India and because the common man can no longer afford a basic
dietary staple, armed robbers have resorted to targeting trucks hauling tons of
onions. The price for onions has risen from around 9 rupees (13 cents) to an
average of 45 rupees (65 cents) in the last month alone and the story is at the
forefront of news reports across the country. “It is not usual to target food
or vegetables,” said Ram Kishore, a police officer from the northern district
of Shahpura where the truck carrying 40 tons of onions was seized last
Wednesday. “Thieves do hijack loaded trucks, but it is usually for something
more valuable.” Onion prices have impacted elections in the past in the country
and India has a 19 percent share of global onion production, second
only to China. Stockpiles of the vegetable are low and following a drought last
year, India is in an impossible spot. Radio stations are finding their calls
consist almost entirely of angry onion lovers of late and the topic has taken
over shows. One national radio station nearly crashed its own switchboard when
a host started a competition to win 11 pounds of onions. The offer started as a
joke, but nearly 2,000 calls flooded in within five minutes. Rich people, poor
people and everyone in between called, all hoping to score a nice, hefty bag of
a product that makes a person cry merely for cutting it up to use in a meal……….
- Far too many 911 calls are made by idiots. Yes, many of
those who dial the number need help desperately and are in need of life-saving
assistance, but quite a few of those calling an emergency number are neither in
an emergency nor in possession of more than 40 IQ points. Witness the outright
idiocy of a 911 caller in Forest Grove, Ill. This poor soul called 911 and
began her conversation with a simple
statement: "I just kind of have a ridiculous question." The
teenage girl called 911 not for an
emergency, but instead for a spider. Yes, she was motoring along through an uneventful
night earlier this month when she was confronted by a large, hairy and
unwelcome presence in her house. "I'm home alone and there is a giant
spider on the back of my couch, and I'm talking giant. I've never seen a spider
this big and I have no idea what to do," she told the slightly dispatcher,
according to 911 records. Having never seen “Annie Hall” and not being a Woody
Allen fan, the girl failed to describe the spider as “the size of a Buick,”
instead telling the operator that it was the size of a baseball, similar to a
tarantula. She added that she is not normally scared by spiders, but a family
member was recently bitten by one and had to go to the hospital. Oh, and she
also justified her 911 call by saying this was a "massive freaking
creature." "I don't know if you guys have anything I can do, or if I
just sit here and stare at it and wait for someone to get home to kill
it," she told the dispatcher. Amazingly, the operator didn’t laugh or
chastise the girl for making such an asinine call and instead agreed to have an
officer contact her. An officer actually did respond to the scene and estimated
the spider was about 2 inches in diameter………
- In NFL preseason games, there is one and only one
primary rule: Get your reps in, do what you need to do and don’t get injured or
injure anyone else in the process. San
Francisco 49ers guard Joe Looney violated that rule, although he claims it was
unintentional, and the Minnesota Vikings believe he should pay for it. Looney,
a second-year player, said he wasn't trying to intentionally injure Minnesota
Vikings defensive tackle Kevin Williams with his low block Sunday night, saying
he "didn't try to take a dirty, cheap shot at him." Looney defended
himself by saying he is not a reckless player. "I tried to find him after
the game to apologize, to let him know I'm not that kind of player who's trying
to hurt guys and maliciously take violent hits at people," Looney said.
"I've been injured myself. I know what it's like." The NFL agreed, as
Dean Blandino, the league's vice president of officiating, determined Looney's
block was legal under the rules and was not a violation of a new rule on
peel-back blocks. The Vikings did not agree, especially not after
Williams suffered a hyperextended knee, bone bruise and postular capsular
strain. The team registered a complaint and said Looney should be subject to
discipline for the block, with Vikings defensive end Jared Allen speaking out
against it. "He had a perfect opportunity to hit him in the chest, but he
intentionally went to his knee," Allen said. "We want to talk about
protecting player safety and all that stuff? Well, I got fined for a hit up
high [against Chicago last year] because they said I launched into a guy,
right? If he hits Kevin in the chest, and something happens, that's part of it.
But if you intentionally duck, and go to a guy's knee, I mean, it had no
bearing on the play.” Allen called the lack of punishment “absurd” and Vikings
coach Leslie Frazier said he talked to the NFL about the play and was told the
league agrees that "it's not the type of play they want in the game for
player safety reasons." Looney wished Williams a quick recovery and
sounded genuinely remorseful about the result of the block…….
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