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Transitioning to the NFL, how about Terrell Owens’ sharpie out of the sock stunt on Monday Night a couple weeks ago? Pure genius. If only he had signed the ball and then handed it directly to Shawn Springs, the cornerback he beat on the touchdown reception. “Dear Shawn, better luck next time. Love, Terrell.” I hope other NFLers take a pointer from Owens and work on their creativity for celebrations. There should be less dancing and more straight-up taunting. Score a touchdown on a corner? Jump into the stands and kiss...
Johnny Knoxville stumbles into the Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, Calif., shivering and bleeding from his head, woozy with a concussion--but the staff just laughs at him. "Hey, it's Johnny Knoxville!" yells a male nurse. "A stunt must have gone bad, huh?" Knoxville has a blood-soaked gauze tourniquet wrapped around the top of his head and is wearing a pink bathrobe; he looks like a cross-dressing Civil War re-enactor. He needs half a dozen or so stitches to the back of his scalp but decides to leave the hospital when the doctors refuse...
...Francisco 49ers. After scoring a touchdown during last week's Monday-night game against Seattle, Owens pulled a Sharpie pen out of his sock, signed the ball and handed it to his financial adviser, who was sitting in the first row. Some, including NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, found the stunt showy, but Owens was not fined for flagrant memorabilia creation. Instead, in a move akin to nabbing Al Capone for tax evasion, Owens was fined $5,000 for having his jersey untucked, an "equipment violation." Owens blamed the problem on opposing players tugging at his jersey. Maybe they just wanted...
...industry jargon is what a show does when it pulls an outrageous stunt in a desperate attempt at a ratings boost--and usually suffers a terminal decline instead. The term, which the creators of jumptheshark.com say they coined, was inspired by the Happy Days episode in which a water-skiing Fonz jumps over a shark. Lately the term is being adopted in business to describe the point at which a once strong company or brand begins to slide. AutoWeek's review of the new turbocharged Volkswagen Beetle, for instance, says the car "threatens to jump the shark...
...films a place in the hearts of all action fans, Torontonians had to stay up late for the screening of Volcano High in the Festival's Midnight Madness section. A high-octane cocktail of apocalyptic nightmare and high-school problem drama, Kim's movie has outsized teen demons, punishing stunt sequences and gaudy special effects that kept the night owls' eyes bugged open. At Midnight Madness, school's out forever...