- There’s never a better time to drop news about a
long-awaited (and probably unnecessary) new movie you’re working on than when
you’re out promoting your current project, eh Keanu Reeves? Reeves was out and
about pimping “John Wick: Chapter 2,” which opened last week, when he was asked
about a film that hasn’t exactly been on the tip of anyone’s tongue in a long
time, a potential sequel to one of his earliest movies, “Bill & Ted’s
Excellent Adventure.” A few rumors about a sequel cropped up last year, but
nothing became of them, but Reeves believes that it’s only a matter of time
before that sequel happens. “Bill and Ted are still alive. The writers have a
story and we’re trying to make it,” he said. “Basically, they’re (Bill and Ted)
supposed to write a song to save the world and they haven’t done that. The
pressure of having to save the world, their marriages are falling apart, their
kids are kind of mad at them, and then someone comes from the future and tells
them if they don’t write the song it’s just not the world, it’s the universe.
So they have to save the universe because time is breaking apart.” Here’s
hoping more historical icons like Napoleon, Abe Lincoln and Mozart can make it
back for this one because they made the original a cult favorite and if Joan of
Arc can also make it, perhaps fans can get over how depressing it is that Bill
and Ted went from high school stoners to middle-aged dudes with families and
mortgages. Or we could just forget this whole sequel idea and all pretend it
never happened and that the first “Bill & Ted” is the one and only edition
of this franchise…….
- Maybe wait until after you score your big political win to
start throwing your weight around, Dutch populist Geert Wilders. Wilders isn't willing
to postpone his grandstanding and that’s why he’s out ahead of things,
declaring that mainstream politicians in the Netherlands will have to work with
his Party for Freedom if voters throw a significant amount of support behind
his xenophobic, ultra-nationalist/anti-immigration, anti-European Union
platform in the country's upcoming election. In the world according to Wilders,
those mainstream officials must respect the vote if it goes his way or else,
prepare for what he deemed a peaceful backlash that sounds extremely boring if
it plays out the way he described it. In polls, which last year’s American
presidential election showed are a shaky tool at best, Wilders' Party for
Freedom is strongly ahead in the March 15 election for the lower house of parliament,
but even so, mainstream parties have staunchly ruled out working in a coalition
government with him. In the wacky world of European politics, that means it
would be exceptionally difficult for the party to form a government, as the
Dutch electoral system all but guarantees coalitions. "If voters make the
PVV really big — I'm not talking about two or three extra seats, but really big
... they will have to,” Wilders said of collaborating with his outfit……..
- Basketball is the sort of sport whose action can often
inspire fans to get up out of their seat in excitement….but it’s not really a
participant-level excitement for those seated in the stands. Someone should
have relayed that vital message to Randall Bolton, a fan who was tackled and
arrested after running on the court and entering Miami's huddle during the
first half of the team's 71-66 loss at No. 4 Louisville. Maybe Bolton was
really excited that the Hurricanes were leading 26-16 during a timeout with
7:59 remaining in the half or maybe he was a) drunk or b) mentally unstable,
but either way, he pushed his way between the Ladybirds dancers and near Miami
players as they circled on the court at the KFC Yum! Center. According to local
police, Bolton had been warned to not go on the floor, but it wasn’t clear what
prompted that warning. Either way, it was an unnerving situation for those
involved. "There was a little bit of a commotion in our huddle,"
coach Jim Larranaga said, "and I glanced up, and there was someone, I
believe, in red, and we don't normally wear red. I had asked the coach, and
they just said it was some fan." Multiple Louisville Metro Police
Department officers corralled the evasive Bolton and one tripped him before
others subdued him near midcourt. He was summarily hauled off the court and the
Cardinals rallied, perhaps inspired by the enthusiasm of their disruptive fan,
for a big win………
- What has the world come to when a man can't take a nice,
long nap inside a dumpster without fearing that his life could be put in
jeopardy? This planet is a scary place and nowhere more so for the
dumpster-napping segment of this crazy spinning planet of ours than Scottsdale,
Arizona, where a man was rescued after being trapped inside a garbage truck for
over 10 miles after the trash repository in which he was napping it out before
the driver of the truck inexplicably decided to pick up and empty the contents
of said dumpster into the back of his rig without bothering to knock on the
door of the dumpster and make sure no one was catching some quality pillow time
inside. According to the Scottsdale Fire Department, the unidentified man in
the dumpster was rescued after the garbage truck driver heard screaming. Police
believe the man was sleeping inside a dumpster when the truck emptied it, but
they didn’t know exactly how he came to be in that particular dumpster. The man
was transported to a nearby hospital for observation after reportedly suffering
a head injury after paramedics treated him initially near 68th Street and
Camelback Road. At least at the poor guy got a free ride to the hospital and
hopefully found comfortable place to nap it out for a while before he was
thrown back out into this cruel, cruel world…….
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