- Sometimes, Hollywood does get it right with casting. Credit
to the producers of the CW’s “Supergirl,” which needed to cast a veteran
actress in the role of a villain and chose wisely by tabbing Teri Hatcher for
the part. Hatcher capably and famously played reporter Lois Lane in “Lois &
Clark: The New Adventures of Superman” from 1993 to 1997 and now, she’ll be a
part of the Superman/Supergirl universe once more, appearing in multiple
episodes as what is being described as the major villain for the season. She’ll
reunite with Dean Cain who starred alongside her on “Lois & Clark: The New
Adventures of Superman,” as Cain features in the “Supergirl” series as Kara’s
adoptive father, Jeremiah Danvers. “No offense to any of the wonderful
actresses who have also played the part, but Teri Hatcher is my all time
favorite Lois Lane,” Supergirl executive producer Andrew Kreisberg said of the
casting. “To have her come back to the SuperWorld in a completely different
part is an unbelievable gift to me, [executive producer] Greg [Berlanti], and
the fans.” The show has woven in a few familiar faces who have appeared in
previous Superman/Wonder Woman projects, including original Supergirl Helen
Slater recurring as Kara’s adopted mother Eliza, “Smallville” star Laura
Vandervoort as Indigo and “Wonder Woman” star Lynda Carter as President Olivia
Marsdin. Adding Hatcher to that list is another great link for the franchise
and should stir up some good memories of her time as Lois Lane……
- What’s a dictator to do when he wants to keep breaking
laws, violating citizens’ human rights and not face judgment for his crimes?
Let’s ask African leaders who have concocted a strategy calling for a
collective withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, whose job it is to
prosecute those who commit such heinous crimes against humanity. These would-be
renegades from international justice made their non-binding decision behind
closed doors near the end of an African Union summit, once again making it
clear that they have heard more than enough from the court, which they believe
has unfairly focused much of its efforts on African issues. Desire Assogbavi,
head of Oxfam International's AU liaison office, confirmed the decision and
word on the street is that the discussions in the meeting centered on whether
the nations involved should leave the court individually or try to make more of
a statement by leaving as a collective, defiant unit. Right now, these is the
governmental equivalent of signing an online petition trying to affect actual
change on a meaningful issue, so it’s not as if the court and its member
nations have to deal with major fallout right now, but it is an indicator that a
major showdown could be ahead with a continent whose leaders remain the biggest
collection of despots, dictators and power abusers anywhere in the world……..
- Much to the surprise of no one, former NBA player Stephen
(Captain Jack) Jackson says he occasionally smoked ganja before games. Jackson
made his admission during a recent interview, but tried to put a positive shine
on the revelation by adding that he played extremely well in those contests…and
then there were times it didn’t go so well. "It's been some games where I
smoked before the game and was on the bench after three minutes sitting on the
sideline, 'Please calm down. This high has to calm down' -- I done shot three
shots that went over the backboard, like, I'm going to be honest, like, 'Ahh, I
gotta calm down,” he noted. One interesting angle of the pot revelation is that
Jackson claimed that Don Nelson, his coach while with the Golden State
Warriors, knew that he liked to bake and said he and Nelson actually talked
about the hippie lettuce often. He mentioned an instance that will resonate
with anyone who’s familiar with drug testing programs in professional sports
will understand well, that programs with specific numbers of times a player can
be tested give the athlete a green light to use any and all drugs of choice
once they know they’re done being tested for a given season. Once, Jackson
said, he and teammate Baron Davis were playing a game in Utah, took their final
drug test of the season and celebrated the fact that they were free and clear
to get high, so high. For the record, Jackson played 14 years in the
Association and averaged 15.1 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game,
proving once again that stoners can be productive members of society……..
- This one is just too obvious, but go ahead, federal
investigators, and attempt to determine how and by whose hand hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of cocaine ended up in the nose of an American Airlines plane
that landed in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Maybe the investigators are having a hard time
remembering that the flight originated in Colombia, because that goes a long
way to explaining how piles of blow ended up in the nose - of course it was the
nose, because how else do you get cocaine into the system? - of that plane. The
flight also made a stop in Miami, so there’s obviously a small chance the coke
was planted in Florida, but the odds are higher than it was placed inside the
plane in a country that has long been one of the world’s leaders in producing a
product known by many as Colombian nose candy. It wasn’t until the flight
reached its final destination in Tulsa that a technician found the coke in the
plane’s electronics bay. “One of my deputies received a call out here saying
that maintenance individuals working on a plane found what essentially was
cocaine,” Tulsa Sheriff Vic Regalado said. “The plane left Bogota, came into Miami,
got picked up on a computer for routine maintenance. Usually that would happen
in Miami, but they were overloaded so they assigned it up here.” The load of
cocaine wasn’t massive by international drug smuggling standards, as it was
reportedly worth around $434,000, and an American Airlines spokesman said the
airline is working with the DEA and federal agencies in the quest to find the
origins of the Bolivian marching powder. There’s no word on whether the case
may be connected to a December 2015 incident in which police found 26 pounds of
cocaine in another AA 757 that had also flown from Bogota to Miami. One or two
more of these finds and we just might have what seasoned investigators call a
pattern………
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