- “Chuck” fans, one of your favorite characters from your
quirky, loveable spy drama you supported fanatically for so long is taking a
step up to the big leagues of television espionage. Yvonne Strahovski, who played spy
and female lead Sarah Walker on NBC’s late spy drama/comedy, has joined the
cast of Fox's “24: Live Another Day.” Strahovski is also a “Dexter” alumnus and
she will now join forces with another unpredictable protagonist in Jack Bauer
for the one-time revival of the serial spy thriller than ran for nine seasons on
Fox and wrapped its run in 2010. Strahovski will play Kate Morgan, a brilliant
but impulsive CIA field operative in London, where Jack Bauer will be saving
the world from the latest threat to cast it headlong into the abyss of anarchy.
Series regulars Kim Raver, William Devane and Mary Lynn Rajskub will all
reprise their roles alongside star Kiefer Sutherland. Details about the plot
have been scarce so far, but “Live Another Day” is set to debut this summer on
Fox. Along with Strahovski, the show also recently cast Oscar nominee Judy
Davis as a British national who is the widow of a notorious terrorist. The mix
for the revival is an interesting collection of new faces and familiar ones and
given the rabid following “24” crafted during its long (and often criticized)
run on the air, there will be plenty of intrigue around the project. For a
time, it was billed as a possible feature film, but somewhere along the line
that thinking shifted from big-budget blockbuster to television special event.
Either way, having Jack Bauer back in our lives is never a bad thing………
- Muscle car lovers, today is a good day for you. On the
very same day the
Chevrolet Corvette Stingray was named North American Car of the Year at the
Detroit auto show, GM appealed to the wealthier segment of its sports car
market with a souped-up version of their new whip that boasts 170 more horsepower.
The Corvette Z06 kicks things up a notch with a 6.2-liter supercharged V8
producing at least 625 horsepower. Having 625 horsepower might seem excessive
for someone whose primary use for the car is to cruise around with the top down
and rev the engine in an attempt to make other drivers feel inferior by
comparison, but it truly is tough to put a price on stroking your own bloated
self-importance. GM knows the Z06 won't move that many models out the door, but
merely producing it will generate buzz. The last-generation Z06 went out of production
after the 2013 model year and it had a relatively paltry 505-horsepower engine and a base price
of $75,600. To get their hands on the new version, car lovers will have to pony
up more than $100,000. The final price point won't be announced until
production begins in early 2015, but GM is banking on the willingness of rich
people to pay a sh*t ton of money to have something that sets them apart from
everyone else regardless of how much it charges for the car. In addition to its
rampant horsepower, the Z06 will also have 635 foot-pounds of torque to create
as much acceleration as possible. As it should be when someone is paying six
figures for a car, the Z06 will be offered with a choice of either a
seven-speed manual transmission or a new high-performance 8-speed automatic
transmission. The automatic version will have shift paddles mounted on the
steering wheel, giving the driver the opportunity to select gears manually. To accommodate
its larger wheels, the Z06 will have a larger fender than the base Corvette
Stingray and larger air vents to more cooling air for the engine, brakes and
transmission. Gentlemen, start your financing efforts now………
- Pimpin’ ain’t easy…and neither is being a German in
Saudi Arabia at the moment. Two German diplomats proved why their foreign ministry warns of
"the possibility of terror attacks” in its official travel advice for
Saudi Arabia when they managed to survive a shooting attack that set their car
on fire in Saudi Arabia during what is officially being called an “overland
journey” in the eastern part of the country. It is an area that has seen
intense hostilities between Shiite Muslims and Saudi authorities and whoever
fired those first shots on the German diplomats likely didn’t bother to ask if
they had any actual stake in the conflict before pulling the trigger. “The
vehicle of the diplomats was fired at and started to burn, but nobody was
injured in the incident,” a spokeswoman for the Germany’s foreign ministry
said. The Saudi government declined comment on the matter, but it is reportedly
being investigated as a criminal matter rather than a terrorist act. The
shooting took place on the outskirts of the city of Awamiya and according to a
police spokesman, a civilian intervened to help the diplomats avoid further
danger. German Ambassador Dieter Haller expressed confidence in Saudi
authorities’ ability to get to the bottom of the case, but finding a shooter in
a region that has seen some of the country’s worst violence in recent years won't
be that easy. Shiites are upset because they accuse Saudi authorities of
persistent discrimination against them, while the Sunni Muslim-dominated
government denies any such wrongdoing. For now, all residents of Deutschland
might want to scratch the kingdom off their list of potential travel
destinations for the next few months or years………
- If it’s been said one, it’s been said a million times: If
you’re going to murder someone in a movie theater, make sure you have a damn
good reason for doing so. Curtis Reeves, a retired police officer, knows this truism
well and it’s why he used ironclad logic to shoot and fatally wound a 43-year-old
father during the previews for a movie in Wesley Chapel, Fla. Yes, the
previews. These two men became so angry at one another that they couldn’t even
make it past the dancing popcorn cartoon or the movie’s first scene. According
to witnesses, the 71-year-old retired police officer went from zero to rage in
a hurry when fellow movie goer Chad Oulson was texting before the movie and
refused to stop. Reeves reportedly objected to Oulson’s texting and their
confrontation escalated to a series of arguments that led to Reeves walking out
of the theater in search of a pimply faced 18-year-old usher to come in and force
Oulson to put his phone away. Reeves either could not find an usher or couldn’t
convince one to return to the theater with him because he came back alone –
unless you count his unbridled and murderous rage as a companion. Oulson then
made the mistake of turning to Reeves to ask him if he had gone to tell on him
for his texting. He explained that he was simply sending a message to his young
daughter, but Reeves was having none of it. The two men began shouting at one
another, popcorn was thrown…..and a gunshot was fired. The question of who
brings a gun to a movie seems to obvious, but it’s worth asking. Reeves, a
former director of security at Busch Gardens, clearly loves his sidearm a
little too much if he’s bringing it with him to watch “The Wolf of Wall Street”
or “Ride Along.” Maybe he didn’t realize that Ice Cube and Kevin Hart didn’t need
his help in shooting things up on screen. Either way, he responded to thrown
snacks be spraying bullets, fatally striking Oulson and wounding Oulson’s wife,
Nicole. Oulson staggered toward nearby patrons and fell on them as Reeves
calmly sat down at placed the gun in his lap. An off-duty deputy sheriff from
Sumter County was among the 25 people theater at the Grove 16 complex and he
responded to the shooting. Two nurses were also in the theater and tended to
Oulson until paramedics arrived. Reeves was arrested on a charge of
second-degree homicide and given his age and the circumstances of his case, he’s
hoping this idiot spends the rest of his life in a prison cell……….
- The Pro Bowl is
still going to be a colossal waste of time, but at least there is some comedic
relief leading up to the single biggest joke on the NFL’s annual schedule –
outside of its joke of a preseason, of course. In a futile attempt to make fans
give a damn about an exhibition game in Hawaii where players eat hot dogs on
the sideline and have to be threatened by the NFL just to play faster than
half-speed, the league has changed the AFC-NFC format for the contest. Instead,
players were selected by balloting amongst their peers and fans and Pro
Football Hall of Famers Deion Sanders and Jerry Rice will divvy up the Pro Bowl
players into two rosters during a two-day draft before the Jan. 26 game in
Honolulu. The two will serve as de facto general managers for their respective
teams and if Sanders is to be taken seriously, they could have a larger role in
the game. Sanders tweeted, “Ladies and Gentlemen I am officially announcing
"I WILL SUIT UP IN HAWAII" Please let @JerryRice know that a real
captain leads by example!” His playful barb drew an equally yuk-tastic response
from Rice, who replied, “Deion I would beat you down like the old days! We can
suit up but it would be very painful for you!” Look at these two old-timers,
zinging one another on social media and opining about a chance to relive their
glory days in a game where their reduced speed and athleticism might actually
be on even footing with current players half-assing their way through the game trying
not to get hurt while picking up their hefty bonus checks. Seeing a couple of
Hall of Famers trying to man up on one another might actually be more
compelling than watching the second-choice selections for the game who step in
to replace the stars who were picked by didn’t want to play, so let’s get @DeionSanders and @JerryRice uniforms and let these two legends dual
in a game that could not possibly matter less……..
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