His dad, Tim Russert, was just another inside-the-beltway blowhard that died at a young age.
NBC apparently felt some compulsion to hire Young Luke, even though he registered zero on the network television experience-o-meter.
Luke Russert is a punk because he got a sweet job and apparently is blowing it off.
“He was hired last year to be the youth correspondent — he got a great contract and was supposed to cover youth issues, blog and bring in young viewers, but he’s been MIA for a while. It’s like, ‘Well, that’s what you get for nepotism.’ “
Luck (oops, Freudian typo) Russert told MediaBistro, he was aware of the nepotism surrounding his hiring and said, “Did my name get my foot in the door? Absolutely, I’ll be the first to admit that.
Now young Luke Russert has stopped contributing to NBC. No face time, no blog (his last one was 12/08) and he doesn’t even generate 140 characters for Twitter.
Young Luke Russert, a man with no talent, collecting a big paycheck, and doing no work.
92 years old and never been inside a movie theater.
Hard to believe, but true, until yesterday.
After her family made a pit stop for some popcorn (“I eat a lot of popcorn,” she said), Doyel roamed down the hallway to the movie of choice: “Earth,” a Disney film that captures the journey of three animal families. It was the perfect movie for Doyel, who often watches the Discovery Channel and the National Geographic Channel on television.
Her daughters and granddaughters and great-granddaughters thought she should see a movie so they toted her to the cinema house to see Earth.
Her eyes lit up as she surveyed the lobby – the movie posters, the arcade games, the concession stand, the long hallways that housed a dozen different films. It was an extraordinary scene to Doyel, who only heard about movie theaters growing up. At that time, movie houses were tiny, and people talked about black and white, silent films, she said.
“This is beautiful,” she said. “I thought it’d be smaller … I didn’t know it would look like this.”
She liked it.
“I don’t want to wait until next Mother’s Day” to come back, Doyel said when the movie ended. “… It was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my life. I don’t blame anybody for spending their money to see something as pretty as that.”
Nobody asked her why she had never seen a movie before.
Mid-June will are flying to Boston by the seat of my pants.
Docker’s had a deal if you buy a bunch of pants they would give you an airline ticket. I bought enough pairs of pants to get two free tix.
We had a choice of about eight cities and we decided on Boston because 1. we wouldn’t have to fly on a plane all day, and 2. neither one of us had been there since childhood.
We will be flying from BNA to BOS on American Airlines.
Since we haven’t flown anything but Southwest for ages, it just occured to me we would have to pay all the new fees involved. (Southwest isn’t on the fee bandwagon yet.)
We would like our bags to fly with us so I guess we will be paying the $40 fee for a couple bags. I’m such a bargain hound, I think I could buy a wardrobe for four days on $40, Nancy OTOH, (and she is a bargain hound too), would spend that much on underwear. She says she won’t go commando like I would.
We usually don’t eat on the airplane, so we won’t be spending $10 for a sandwich.
Another “feature” we had forgotten about is having an assigned seat!
Then again, the plane we will be on only has 40 seats, so it’s not that big a deal.
We have the Southwest thang down pretty good. We don’t freak out over not getting an A group (first 30 to board) because on Southwest there are at least a dozen family members or travelers needing assistance anyway. And we don’t stand in line for 45 minutes before boarding, because we don’t freak out if we can’t sit beside each other for a three hour flight.
The adventure has begun.
BTW: Rhea is helping out with BOS tips, if you have any, we welcome any advice on things to do, eat, see, buy. Priceline put us up in the Intercontinental Hotel on the Waterfront.
I got a call from a guy who said his 92 year old Mother-in-law had never seen Earth.
I kid.
Actually, what he said, was she had never seen a movie! Ever.
I thought about calling the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Geezers, but since it was his Mother-in-law, I let him off the hook.
This woman, according to his wife (her daughter) had never seen a movie.
I don’t believe it for a second. But if my wife says her Mother had never seen dirt, I would accept that as immutable fact.
Get this: for Mother’s Day, all the daughters are going to chip in and take their 92 year old Mother to the movies.
The movie the chose to take her to (it’s a surprise) is Earth.
Ahem. That’s like taking her to see Tobacco or Pickup. She’s lived 92 years. She has seen Earth. If it were me? Terminator Salvation. I bet she hasn’t see that!
Earth
Rated G
Prepare to be wowed. Earth, is a movie everyone can enjoy, and should
This dazzling nature documentary—a three-way between Disney, the Discovery Channel and the BBC—tweaks your senses with breathtaking scenery, spectacular photography and a cast of animals whose lives are almost too amazing.
Basically a movie version of the Discovery Channel series “Planet Earth,” don’t dismiss it as a rerun.
This “Earth,” edited into year-in-the-life storyline, is a sight to behold on the big screen—and a story that warrants re-telling.
Earth is anchored by three geographically diverse animal families: a mama polar bear and her cubs in the Arctic Circle, a mother elephant and baby in Africa, and a humpback whale and her calf on a 6,000-mile swim to feed off the coast of Antarctica.
(Stick around during the credits for a tantalizing glimpse into the making of the movie, what must have been an extraordinary feat in itself.)
“Earth” spares the messy details—but not necessarily the heartbreak — of the survival of the species. A young elephant loses its way in a dust storm, stumbling off to certain death alone in the parched wasteland. A famished polar bear, exhausted and injured, faces the inevitable fate of any predator unable to hunt.
Although “Earth” isn’t preachy, there’s an underlying concern throughout for the delicate balance of nature and the importance of maintaining it. “Global warming” isn’t used, when the narration (by James Earl Jones) notes it’s getting harder and harder for polar bears to find solid ice platforms from which to hunt during the summer, you get the idea. After hearing about the planet’s shrinking woodland due to the march of civilization, you better understand why it’s not uncommon to see deer, coyotes and other “wild” animals wandering though the backyards of suburbia.
See “Earth” for an eye-popping, entertaining and enlightening tour that exists outside our comfort zones. It’s impossible to not come away with a renewed respect, appreciation and awe.
