It's a well-known fact that I love a good heist movie. And even better than a movie about a heist would be hearing details about a real-life heist. [Side note: The ultimate experience would be a movie about a heist gone wrong that somehow included zombies.] Thank you, Court TV. "Masterminds" is being broadcast every night at 9:00 Central this week. Tonight's episode was about a cat burgular (Bill Mason) who targeted the rich and famous, relieving them of several millions of dollars worth of jewels over the course of his career. Mason's specialty was scaling and rapelling the sides of high-rise apartments and condos in the Ft. Lauderdale area. Among his victims over the years: Phyllis Diller, Bob Hope, Robert "...
Have you seen the recent General Motors "OnStar" commercials? It's a series of kids talking to a camera, asking their parents if they would "put [them] in a car without a seatbelt", "put [their] little brother in a car without putting them in a child seat", etc... Then they ask if you would consider putting them into a car that doesn't come equipped with "OnStar". Finally, they look sadly into the camera and say, "Please mommy and daddy, don't kill me - buy a GM car." Or maybe that's just what goes through my head every time I see that commercial. It's hard to tell the difference sometimes.