Entertainment: April 2009 Archives

The Hound was hoping against all hope that federal Judge James Zagel would let former Illinois Gov. Rod "Help, I'm a Celebrity and I need a Lawyer' Blagojevich go on that reality show in Costa Rica. Knowing Blago's luck, he would have been eaten by a caiman. For those of you who don't know your reptiles from an Illinois politician, they're the Central American version of an alligator.

Just think: Blago being eaten by a gator's cousin would save us taxpayers a lot of money, his family a lot of grief and money and U.S. attorneys a lot of time they could devote to real criminals, like the guys who keep on robbing banks in the six-county area.

The Hound's siblings, however, were hoping Blago would have gotten the go-ahead to head to the NBC show "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!" because they complain they haven't seen a good reality show since Chuck Barris' "Gong Show". They just recounted the exploits of "Gene, Gene the Dancing Machine" and "The Unknown Comic" over Easter dinner recently.

Think it's tough on "Hell's Kitchen", not according to The Hound's brothers who maintain the "Gong Show" paved the way for the current reality show crop, including "The Biggest Loser". But The Hound digresses. The judge said he doesn't believe Blago understands the full weight of the charges against him.

Perhaps he's right. Welcome to the first unreality star. And, be careful, Blago, you just might end up being gonged.

If you thought the "stick a fork in 'em" prank pulled by Zion-Benton High School seniors was bad (or good if you have a sense of humor), listen to what our Sunbelt correspondent has sent The Hound. Seems some kids in Florida did a oneupmanship on the Zee-Bees.

Students (presumably seniors) at Cypress Creek High School northeast of Orlando in Orange County, pulled a prank which has even The Hound wondering how they pulled it off. Unlike flush Illinois, or at least Zion-Benton High School, schools in the Sunshine State have portable classrooms. Apparently it's overcrowding in schools in the nation's fourth-largest state.

Whatever the reason, students at this high school took all the chairs and tables from about 20 portable classrooms and placed them neatly on the buildings' roofs. Kind of makes the Zee-Bees look like pikers. Especially considering the Florida kids weren't caught and nobody has a clue how they did it.

There are some sleuths who say the students used folded papers from class assignments to keep the windows to the portable classrooms (let's face it, those are trailers) open so later under cover of darkness they could attain their mission. Of course, the fingerpointing has begun down South on where was security.

Oh, and school officials say if they catch the culprits, they're booted and won't graduate. We've heard that before, haven't we? If you want to see footage, check out one of the Orlando TV stations, or Google Cypress Creek, The Hound's correspondent says.