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fandomhigh2009-02-01 09:22 pm
fear_of_fish) wrote in fandomhigh2009-02-01 09:22 pm
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So You Want to Make a TV Show- 2nd Period- Class #5
"Morning!" Dana greeted the class, looking almost chipper. "There's a paper on your desks. If you write your name on it with the name of the team that won the Super Bowl, you get free extra credit. Did anyone watch? Anyone win any money? Because I won money. Don't gamble, kids, it's wrong and immoral but damn it's fun when you win.
"Anyway," she said, smile fading just a little bit, and wasn't happy Dana a little terrifying? "Last week I sent you all on errands to show you a little bit of what the life of the production assistant is like. Today we're going to work on research. Again, it's high-pressure. People will be throwing names and dates at you and you have to come up with information on them like that. You're not expected to know everything. However, you are expected to be able to find it.
"In a situation like a sports show, you'd have archival footage to go through, too. Since we don't really have that here, we're just going to keep it simple. You have assignments. You have till the end of class to get me as much information on your subject as possible. You can go to the library, you can use the computer lab, anything else you probably don't have time for. You don't even need to write me up a report on the person, but I want to be able to kill a few trees with all the info you give me at the end of class. We're going to be very bad to the environment today. Skip a shower tomorrow, it will completely make up for it." She could say that because she didn't have any of them in a class tomorrow.
"Anyway," she said, smile fading just a little bit, and wasn't happy Dana a little terrifying? "Last week I sent you all on errands to show you a little bit of what the life of the production assistant is like. Today we're going to work on research. Again, it's high-pressure. People will be throwing names and dates at you and you have to come up with information on them like that. You're not expected to know everything. However, you are expected to be able to find it.
"In a situation like a sports show, you'd have archival footage to go through, too. Since we don't really have that here, we're just going to keep it simple. You have assignments. You have till the end of class to get me as much information on your subject as possible. You can go to the library, you can use the computer lab, anything else you probably don't have time for. You don't even need to write me up a report on the person, but I want to be able to kill a few trees with all the info you give me at the end of class. We're going to be very bad to the environment today. Skip a shower tomorrow, it will completely make up for it." She could say that because she didn't have any of them in a class tomorrow.
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She was a little sad that she'd lost ten bucks, though.
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Finally, she figured she had a 50-50 shot and just guessed blindly.
Arizona.
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She had the extra credit: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Arizona Cardinals at a score of 27-23. It was a very exciting game, with the Steelers pulling out the winning points at the very end stretch of the game, which was pretty awesome, especially since I had a lot of money on them.
Even though gambling is very bad. By money, I mean candybars. Really. It's okay to bet candybars.
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Jack- Walter Payton
Claire- Arnold Palmer
Hannibal- Jose Conseco
Dinah- Elton Brand
Lois- Mia Hamm
Robin- Rafael Nadal
Jenny- Bill Cowher
Turtle- Kim Zmeskal
[Like last week, you can handwave as much as you want, though everyone at the very least has a Wikipedia link, should you want to do anything with it. You can go ahead and ping in the library if you want (second period only), or if someone wants to put up a computer lab post in dorms for people to ping into, that works too. Dana just expects everyone to be back by the end of class to turn their stuff in.]
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Time to bother Cal at work, then. What a hardship.
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Power forward for the Philadelphia 76'rs, former CHicago Bull and former L.A. Clipper, he recently signed a contract with them but spent most of 2007-2008 out due to an injury, and only played 8 games last year. Brand holds a Bronze medal from the 2006 World Championships in Japan, and was also 2006 All-NBA and All-Star as well as being awarded the Sportmanship award. Despite being 2" shorter than most power forwards at 6'8", Brand is one of the top power forwards in the league, with an average of 20 points an 10 rebounds per game over his career.
He's also a film producer! And one of his films was shown at the Toronto Film Festival!
Elton Brand Highlights Tape! (http://clippers.fandome.com/video/88354/Elton-Brand-Highlights/)
Dinah provided a link to the wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_Brand) entry where she got most of her info, and the Nba.com (http://www.nba.com/playerfile/elton_brand/) site with Elton's stats, as well as links to a zillion other articles on him.
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Of course, that was all before the steroid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Canseco#Steroids) allegations, which Hannibal made sure to detail.
After that, he notated several things about his tumultuous (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a59lt3Y4z4) personal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp6YK-_ETbc) life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3rjNOVEb30) and why he eventually became a douche.
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She didn't pretend to understand any of the papers she'd printed, but at least they were there.
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