I really enjoy this show as well as Real Sports and all of the other HBO series. Will be sure to watch
Not all Tim Robbins movie sucked. Shawshank Redemption was an excellent movie! Can't think of a good movie for Susan on the other hand.
Unfortunately I missed the show tonight, but I think I can watch it on HBO on Demand!! I would actually watch the show MORE for the interviews with Sarandon and Robbins than the one with Yao. I am so admantly opposed to the fascist tag-team of Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rove et al that I will be pouring as much energy, money and time as I can possibly afford into seeing that Bush doesn't get another four years to make his rich white friends even wealthier while absolutely screwing every other major demographic in America!! Oh and btw tolne57: Sarandon won an Oscar for DEAD MAN WALKING with Sean Penn. She has been nominated on other occasions as well and you might also recall her work in the movie THE CLIENT (made from a John Grisham novel). Her body of work is tremendous and excellent.
<b>Hear Hear!</b> I have no respect for a leader who goes to Silicon Valley to make a speech on the nation's economy and does so at a Republican-owned DEFENSE CONTRACTOR instead of any of a thousand high tech firms there which have been ravaged by layoffs and down-sizing. One of the duties of the pResident is to offer comfort and moral support where it is needed and NOT to engage purely in politically motivated photo-ops at every stage-managed step on the way 2004. By the way, the pResident's plan to create 1.4 million jobs with his 726 Billion dollar tax cut for the rich equates to $500,000 in tax cuts for each job created. And as most serious non-right wing think tank economists admit, such tax cuts will NOT create meaningful changes for at least 5 to 10 years when the first jobs resulting from such tax cuts MAY appear. Wouldn't it be easier to use the money collected from those taxes to put people to work IMMEDIATELY? There are people with university degrees who would glady dig ditches to put food on the table and feed their families right now. On a lighter note - for an excellent Susan Sarandon film, see "Atlantic City" also starring Burt Lancaster.
I don't know what the deal was. The synopsis on the HBO website clearly stated that there would be a special feature on Yao...even as late as last night. They ran that feature with the Carmello Anthony and Jim Bohiem from Syracuse talking about the national championship. I'm guessing that replaced the Yao story for whatever reason.
Here's the deal: I talked with a buddy of mine who knows someone who works for HBO in New York...that person did some digging and found out why the Yao story didn't air. According to him, the story was complete and ready to go. But the decision makers at HBO decided that since the Rockets didn't make the playoffs the story was no longer important enough to justify its airing anymore. The people that worked on putting the story together were not very happy with that decision. That's showbiz I guess.
