Popular Culture

9 February 2004


Bill Cosby's Fat Albert Movie Starts Casting
Bill Cosby is the sort of fellow it would be easy to hate. He's rich, talented, married to a smart and attractive woman for decades. Yet, he's just too much a part of what makes good American humor good morally as well as good comedically. Casting for his new project, a Fat Albert movie, started in Chicago over the week-end, and the only question is where can one get tickets for the premier? For more, click here.

Second Grader Suspended for Using the Word "Hell" Theologically
Last week, a young lady was suspended from Pittsburgh Public Schools for using the word "Hell" as it is understood by theologians. Apparently, officials there were concerned that the schools in Nashville would win the prize for stupidity having established a commanding lead by abolishing the honor roll. This late entry, though, gives Pittsburgh the championship for dumb administrators. Click here to read on.

Lennox Lewis Retires from Boxing as Heavyweight Champion
Is there anything quite so sad as watching a "has-been" who doesn't know that the time of greatness has passed? Lennox Lewis is the 38-year-old undisputed heavyweight champion of boxing whose announcement last week that he was retiring has spared the world this pitiful sight. Ali may have been the Greatest, but Lewis could be the Wisest. Click here to read more.