- What do you do when the star of your sports or action
movie franchise is too old to kick ass the way he or she once did, but you
still want to squeeze every last dollar possible out of the ‘chise? You concoct
a preposterous spin-off of that franchise, relegate the star to a non-action
role and try to get fans to buy in. Cue Warner Bros. and MGM releasing a plot synopsis
for “Creed,” their forthcoming Rocky spin-off film. Because
Sylvester Stallone is aged out of the boxing star role, he will instead serve
as a trainer and mentor to the son of his former boxing rival, Apollo Creed. “The Wire” star Michael B. Jordan has
been cast as Apollo's son, Adonis Creed, and work on the project began last
month under the guiding hand of director Ryan Coogler. Crowd scenes for the
movie used fans of Everton FC because these hooligans were more than willing to
fill their favorite team’s stadium for a chance to be on camera. The synopsis
is a bit cryptic, but suggest dire straits for Balboa. Stallone's character
will also be "battling an opponent more deadly than any he faced in the
ring," according to the synopsis. "Adonis Johnson (Jordan) never knew
his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he
was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis
heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough
upstart named Rocky Balboa.” Jordan will find Balboa in Philly and convince his
father’s former rival that he has the same grit and toughness as his old man. This
drastic theatrical reach is due out on Nov. 25 and it will be the first time
Stallone has portrayed Rocky since the disastrous “Rocky Balboa” in 2006………
- Book a ticket to Seoul, would-be playas. South Korea just
threw the door wide open to adultery by abolishing a 62-year-old law
that criminalized extramarital affairs. There are some dudes whose wives either
turn a blind eye to adultery or in the case of NBA star Andrei Kirilenko, give
them one free pass a year, but a South Korean court went a step further and
instantly caused the stock price of a prominent condom maker immediately to
rise 15 percent with a ruling that the law suppressed personal freedoms. The
Constitutional Court's ruling is big news and could impact many of the more
than 5,400 people who have been charged with adultery since 2008, when the
court earlier upheld the legislation, according to court law. In what could
cause massive chaos, all current charges against those people could be thrown
out and those who have received guilty verdicts will be eligible for retrials.
The law states that having sex with a married person who is not your spouse is
no longer punishable by up to two years in prison. Nearly 53,000 South Koreans
have been indicted on adultery charges since 1985, though most have managed to
dodge prison time for their crimes. Still, South Korean condom maker Unidus
Corp. got a massive stock boost from the removal of the adultery ban, which has
been part of South Korea's criminal law since 1953. Making the change has been
a point of heavy debate in recent years due to changing social trends
challenging traditional values. The law’s supporters argued in favor of
protecting traditional values, but critics contended that the government had no
right to interfere in people's private lives and sexual affairs. By a margin of
7-2, the court ruled that the law "excessively restricts citizens' basic
rights, such as the right to determine sexual affairs.” Simply put, it was
outdated and whoever wants to blow right through their marital vows and get
their freak on with someone who is not their spouse now has a massive,
unchanging green light………
- Most days, the NCAA totally sucks. Its inherent hypocrisy
and all-around lame-osity are easy to hate but tough to change…and then there
are days like today, when ineligible
Baylor running back Silas Nacita highlights just how much the governing body
for major college sports totally blows. Nacita was booted from the Baylor
football team for accepting impermissible benefits, but his story captured
national attention because of why he took those perks. Back in 2014, he was
homeless and accepted housing and benefits because, you know, a homeless
teenager would like a place to live. He initially accused the NCAA of
wrongfully punishing him for accepting those benefits while homeless in 2014,
but was removed from the team when Baylor's compliance office determined he had
made "rules violations that impacted his eligibility." Even though he
totally should have been allowed to accept help that kept him off the streets,
he still took the high road and tweeted a statement accepting responsibility
for his ineligibility. "The bottom line is that I broke the rules,"
he wrote on Twitter. "I should've never accepted the help and I am deeply
sorry for my actions." He went on to admit that the "close family friend" who has
provided his housing was merely an acquaintance from his hometown of
Bakersfield, California. "At the time I did not think this was
inappropriate behavior, but now I can see that I made a mistake by disregarding
guidance from Baylor compliance on what benefits I may accept," Nacita
wrote. "I take full responsibility for my choice to accept these
inappropriate benefits." The bottom line, as always, is that it’s (insert
time you’re reading this) and the NCAA still sucks………..
- Ah, art. At its best, it is mysterious, colorful,
confounding and offers great insights into the world and its inhabitants. At
its worst, it is quite literally garbage and smells accordingly. But on those
other days….it gets the fire department called to downtown Pittsburgh because
folks cannot distinguish between a piece of living art and an actual safety
hazard. Just as Pittsburgh firefighters how much fun that can
be because they have been called to a downtown public square at least twice by
people who reported smoke when they saw machine-generated fog that's part of a
new art installation. Credit/blame for this one goes to artist Jennifer Wen Ma,
whose "A Winter Landscape Cradling Bits of Sparkle" is a small oasis
of mulched trees enveloping a small, boardwalk path. It contains a fog machine
that emits a cloud of the wispy stuff every 10 minutes to simulate a cloudy
mountaintop. One would think that the powers that be would be well aware of
what the exhibit entailed before it went up to avoid this very sort of nonsense
and waste of taxpayer dollars, but clearly not. The Office of Public Art, a
public-private agency, believes it has successful addressed the issue by
communicating what the hell is going on to firefighters and possibly toning
down the intensity of the fog bursts to lessen the chance of future false
alarms for the next six weeks or so until the installation is taken down on
April 12. Until then, good people of Pittsburgh, please attempt to not be
morons by overreacting to a fog machine in your midst………
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