- Europe views smoking much differently than the United
States. In Europe, it can often feel like two-thirds of the people you pass
walking down the street or dining beside at the nearest café are choking down
cancer sticks like they’re sticks of gum, while every place worth being in the
U.S. has a ban on smoking within its confines. In other words, it should
surprise no one that an Italian man required surgery for head injuries after
being punched and kicked in the head in a Rome subway car by two men he asked
to stop smoking. Maurizio Di Francescantonio was riding the subway, with his
mother no less, when he approached two fellow passengers puffing away on their
lung darts and polluting the air inside the confined space for all condemned to
ride with them until they could bolt from the subway car at the next stop. According
to Di Francescantonio’s mother, no passengers came to her son's aid after he
was attacked, electing to watch him beaten within inches of his life.
Prosecutors are investigating the two men, who come from the Caserta area in
southern Italy, for attempted murder, so this was definitely not your ordinary
beating. Oh, and smoking is forbidden on Rome's public transport system, so
there’s also that, and yet no one other than Di Francescantonio was willing to
stand up and demand that these two ass hats stop forcing them to ingest toxic
air and increase their chances of lung cancer, emphysema and all other manner
of smoking related maladies. Step your game up, Roman mass transit
passengers……..
- No matter what Rutgers does, it can't seem to get the
whole athletics thing right. There was now-former men’s basketball coach Mike
Rice being fired for being abusive toward players and staffers, current
football coach Curt Flood being suspended for three games last season for
trying to influence a professor to do an academic favor for a football player
struggling in class and now, athletic director Pat Hobbs is creating trouble
for himself by downing a beer at Rutgers' school-sponsored tailgate party prior
to last weekend’s home football game against New Mexico. Hobbs stopped by a
student tailgating event, "The Alley,” that the school launched back in
August. By the time the AD made his appearance at the event, the tailgate was
in full swing at its home close to the stadium and Hobbs apparently felt the
crowd was a bit too rowdy - college students, beer and an enclosed space,
imagine that. He climbed a riser and began addressing the crowd, crediting the
police for their actions in keeping things calm. "My first concern is
always for the safety and well-being of our students,'' Hobbs said after the
fact. "Anyone who was at the [student tailgate] Saturday knows that I was
acting to ensure that.'' He showed his concern for the students’ safety and
well-being by taking a beer handed to him by someone in the crowd, telling the
chanting mob that he “can’t drink that right now,” then doubling back, laughing
and saying, "I am of age. If they card me, I'm OK. All right, go RU."
In the video’s climactic final scene, Hobbs begins chugging the beer….and now
he’s issuing an apology and the school is canceling The Alley. Lesson learned?
Awesome…….
- If at first you don’t succeed and police don’t keep you in
custody for your alleged crime, then give it another shot and see if you can
make your stop in the clink stick. That philosophy definitely worked for an
accused female car thief arrested twice in one day by Jefferson County
Sheriff’s officials for stealing or attempting to steal five vehicles.
According to detectives, the woman stole a 1995 Chevy Suburban in the Arnold
area on September 13 and then abandoned it in front of a home on Pearl Drive.
Perhaps she should have kept driving rather than go on foot because a short
time later a deputy spotted a woman matching the description of the thief
provided by the SUV owner and arrested her. Amazingly, after being booked into
the jail on suspicion of car theft, the woman was released pending application
of warrants and upon exiting the jail, she allegedly stole a pickup and drove
to the 7000 block of Old Highway 21. Either she really enjoys stealing cars or
she’s the most ADD car thief ever because at that location, police say she
abandoned the pickup and stole a Ford Focus. To cap off her busy day, the woman
showed that she doesn’t give a damn who she steals from by attempting to jack a
GMC Yukon and a Chevy Suburban owned by her daughter. In a final stunning twist
given the tenacity for thievery she’d shown, when the Suburban wouldn’t start,
authorities say the woman got out and walked away. Walking was once again her
downfall as she was spotted by a Highway Patrolman who was helping sheriff’s
officials investigate the vehicle thefts and arrested for the second time that
day………
- If playing one eccentric, possibly brilliant weirdo works
well, then why not try it again? Jared Leto received mostly rave reviews for
playing The Joker convincingly in last month’s “Suicide Squad,” a film in which
he says he stayed in character the entire time he was on set, pulling all
manner of weird tricks on his co-stars and generally embodying creepy as well
as a person possibly could. That could serve him well now that he’s set to star
and co-produce an Andy Warhol biopic after acquiring the rights to play the art
icon. Warhol, an artist, music promoter and performer known for his bizarre Exploding
Plastic Inevitable multimedia events and urinating on canvases and calling it
art, was profiled in the 1989 book 'Warhol: The Biography' by Victor Bockris
and Leto has acquired the rights to that tome. So alongside “The Social Network”
and “Moneyball” producer Michael De Luca and “The Wolf of Wall Street”
screenwriter Terence Winter, Leto is plugging ahead with the new film, which
will reportedly be titled “Warhol.” Leto hasn’t exactly been the busiest man in
Hollywood of late, as his next movie, “Blade Runner 2,” will be just his second
role since his Oscar-winning performance in 2013's “Dallas Buyers Club.”
Playing Warhol will require him to go to an eccentric place once again, but he’s
clearly proven that he has the ability to do so and odds are he’ll find his
Campbell’s soup can of a muse somewhere along the way…….
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