- New
York Jets wide receiver Brandon Marshall had himself quite a day earlier this
week. Marshall, who struggled with legal and behavioral issues early in his
career but has become a better citizen and advocate for mental health in recent
years, kicked off an eventful 24 hours in a federal court room, accused of
punching a woman in the face. He ended it receiving a humanitarian award at a
Manhattan gala, although he really only wanted to discuss one of those two
happenings. In court, he was on defense in a civil trial in which Christin
Myles, a former San Diego State basketball player, testified that Marshall
assaulted her outside a Manhattan nightclub in 2012. Myles’ emotional testimony
included crying and claims that Marshall inflicted "excruciating
pain." There was a police investigation at the time, but no charges were
filed. In a weird twist, Marshall appeared in court wearing the same blue pinstriped suit he wore later in
the day, when he was honored at the New York Athletic Club only three hours
after leaving the Lower Manhattan courthouse. Before he was honored by the
National Football Foundation, Marshall insisted on talking only about his
charitable efforts and his wishes that the Jets make more of an effort to get
unsigned quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick to return to the fold. "I just
talked to coach (Todd Bowls), and coach said we'll be OK, so I assume we'll be
OK," Marshall said of his team’s quarterback situation. Now about that
legal situation……..
- To
the cynic, it would appear that Jean-Marie Le Pen
isn't going to stop being an idiot or a racist ass hat any time soon. It’s a
fair conclusion to draw when a man was convicted four years ago for claiming
the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane,” then gets
himself convicted again in the present day for repeating that the Nazi gas
chambers are a "detail" of World War II history. Yes, make that two
convictions of the founder and former head of France's far-right National Front
party for denying crimes against humanity. A Paris court completed racist
hitting for the cycle when it convicted and sentenced Le Pen on Wednesday to a
30,000-euro ($34,000) fine, along with being required to pay a total 10,000
euros in damages to three associations that were plaintiffs in the case. As a
final smack across the 87-year-old’s face, the court ordered that the ruling be published
in three major French newspapers at his expense. Le Pen was sentenced twice, in
1991 and 1999, by civil courts for saying and then repeating that the gas
chambers were "a detail of the history of the Second World War, so this
makes for a stunning fourth incident of outright racial hatred and ignorance.
Le Pen set himself up for this one, as he agreed to a TV interview last year in
which he confirmed that he did "not at all" regret saying that
"the gas chambers were a detail of the war history." His attorney
tried to argue that Le Pen was protected by his immunity as a member of the
European Parliament and that he couldn't be tried, but he wasn’t even in the
courtroom when the judge rejected his lame-ass defense. Keep being a
small-minded tool, J.M………
- Jared
Leto’s performance as The Joker in the upcoming “Suicide Squad” movie has drawn
rave reviews from those around the project and perhaps on the strength of that
effort, he’s adding some solid new roles to his future schedule. One will be in
“The Outsider,” where he will replace Tom Hardy, who was the favorite for the
role but has now been swapped out for the 30 Seconds to Mars frontman. The film
has been inching forward since 2013, when director
Takashi Miike was expected to take over as director. Now, not only is the
leading man different, but Danish director Martin Zandvliet is now in charge,
working from Andrew Baldwin's script. The story is the sort of dramatic,
historical tale that can win awards if done well. It’s
set in post-World War II Japan, when an imprisoned American soldier (Leto) is
freed with the help of his cellmate, who is part of the Yakuza, and tries to
repay his debt to the mafia doing dirty deeds that sink him deeper and deeper
into the dangerous criminal underworld. Filming is set to begin this fall,
after Leto and the rest of his “Suicide Squad” friends appear on screen in one
of the most-hyped movies of the year. if this one is as big as expected and
Leto’s performance as Joker is as good as promised, his profile should
skyrocket and for a guy with an Oscar already to his credit, that would be big
news. Leto was so good in his role as the disfigured villain that co-star Will
Smith joked that, "I've never actually met Jared Leto," alluding to
how deeply and convincingly Leto immersed himself in the role……..
- Coffee
shops are often filled with people we all hate, but typically those are
entitled, oblivious assholes who drag their entire office - laptop, printer,
folders and all - into their local coffee shop and commandeer and entire corner
table for a day while sipping the same damn small cup of coffee that they refill
for free just to qualify as a customer, carrying out their business on free
WiFi as if it’s their actual office. For Gainesville, Florida resident Cara
Jennings, that object of coffee house hate was someone else - someone with an
actual office he uses all the time and a damn nice one at that. Jennings was
patronizing a local coffee establishment when she
saw Gov. Rick Scott walk in, which sparked an immediate and verbally violent
reaction on Jennings’ part. She was upset about Scott's funding cuts to Planned
Parenthood and decided to use this fateful meeting to do something about it -
and of course, the entire showdown was caught on video by fellow patrons with
their phones. "You don't care about working people. You should be ashamed
to show your face around here," Jennings said in the video, which quickly
made its way to YouTube. Scott, choosing not to be a true politician and smile
while nodding and absorbing the verbal shrapnel because snarking back would be
bad for his look, shot back, "Oh, really, because we've got a million
jobs." Undeterred, Jennings replied, "A million jobs? Great. Who here
has a great job?" Rather than wait for an answer, she went on to accuse
the governor of "stripping women of access to public health care” and
called him "an embarrassment to our state." Scott, perhaps still
reeling from those linguistic salvos, did not respond and walked out without
his overpriced coffee or coffee-like beverage……..
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