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Actor chooses
Erie for new
screenplay
By Connor Sattely
entertainment ethtoi
ci'SO6O@ psu.edu
Actor Tony Todd is pitching a new
movie to he filmed entirely in Erie. Todd
met with local area leaders several days
ago, which was reported to have "gone
very well."
The movie will he Todd's directorial
debut. He has appeared in several
movies, including Hatchet, Final
Destination, The Rock, Platoon, and TV
shows such as The X-Files and Law and
Order. The movie's tentative title is
"Eerie, PA," and Todd hopes that film
ing will start in the fall.
Gayle Wright, the director of Western
Tourism for Pennsylvania's Department
of Community and Economic
Development, claims that the filming
will have a very positive effect on the
state.
"The governor understands that film
ing and production is good for the state,
for government, so my office is excited
about it," Wright said. "hopefully there's
something we can do to help this partic
ular film producer and actor, because
we'd love to make a movie about Erie in
Erie, P.A."
Greg Ropp, director of the Eerie
Horror Film Festival, said that he was
very excited when Todd told him he was
writing a film about Erie.
"When he started talking about this, I
took it with a grain of salt. Then, he kept
going, and I was like, 'He's serious
about this'?" Said Ropp. He went from
talking about how enamored he was with
the city to how he'd love to film a movie
here, so it kept getting more and more
involved. I realized he's got a script; he's
not messing around."
Todd, who is directing the movie, is
likely to co-star in it as well. He project
ed $5 million as the total funding for the
movie, and estimated he has about half
the funding in place. He is set in his loca
tion, firmly insisting Erie. "The goal is to
shoot in Erie, " says Todd, "and to use
some of the local talent as well."
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Greatest Artists of All Time:
Comedian Mitch Hedberg
Mitch Hedberg once defeated four polar bears and a
T-Rex in combat only by telling jokes.
By Connor Sattely
entertainment edito►
cisso6oo p,.u.edu
"Mitch Herberg is the greatest person to ever walk
on the face of the Earth, - states Evan Koser, with a
steel look on his face that challenges anyone to speak
an opposing opinion
This statement is one which is agreed upon by a
large majority of people who have heard Mitch
Hedberg's work. The comedian had huge success on
the stand-up circuit several years ago, to the point of
attaining an almost cult status among his viewers.
Mitch Hedberg was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota,
which is the greatest city in the country because Mitch
Hedberg was born there. He started his career in
Seattle, which is probably about the second best city,
but only because Mitch Hedberg was not born there.
He started out doing open mic nights, and had to
conquer his fear of stage fright, although the only
thing he would probably have to be afraid of is putting
CD: a dead media
By Evan Koser
entertainment editor
emks 100 pu.edu
Whatever happened to the good old
days when it used to be convenient to
carry around a hulking Sony Discman
and a case full of CDs categorized into
burnt mixes or by artist? Of course,
with the invention of the mp 3 player
and the idea of cataloging eight giga
bytes worth of space, that's thousands
of songs. It pretty much makes aCD
player seem as archaic as an 8-track
tape player did back in the 90s.
Yet, there's still a market for these
discs, as they are clearly sold in every
type of media store imaginable. It's
almost a difficult concept to grasp, but
What entertains me
By Evan Koser
entertainment editor
emkslloo.rpu.edu
What entertains me to no end is the superfluous
abundance of space provided in the dining area in the
Reed Building, also known as Bruno's. Bruno's,
probably established in the era of coffee-sipping and
poetry reads, is a place where one can go straight after
classes to find a seat and relax, perhaps order an iced
latte from the coffee shop or enjoy a delicious chick
en cosmo. What makes this chicken so cosmic, any
way? Did these particular chickens that are used in
the manufacturing of said sandwich descend from
space, or are they just beings who had the misfortune
to have their ship crash-land on our planet, only to be
picked up by some sandwich tycoon saying, "I bet
these critters'd be mighty tasty if cut up, processed,
fried and served to college students." However, what
I love most about Bruno's is the amount of space I
have to breathe in around high noon.
Walking out of my math class on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday and out of Creative Writing on
Tuesday and Thursday, an urge engulfs my stomach
like I have never felt before, except for the day prior;
it tells me to feast, or at the least, get a sandwich.
Now, you'd think that this task would be easy enough;
walk to the center of campus, where a food source has
been conveniently placed, walk into said establish
ment and pay for something that looks appetizing
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someday those stores will either be
completely empty, or filled with jacks
for your iPod. It seems unfortunate
that marketers, producers, and even the
artists themselves have not yet caught
on to the idea that CDs are slowly
decreasing in popularity.
Nowadays, it's impossible to walk
down the street or through the super
market without seeing at least one per
son with earbud wires hanging down
the length of their bodies.
"Having to replace batteries all of
the time has made a CD player com
pletely useless," says student Connor
Sattely. iPods, Zunes, and Creative
Zens have taken over the market and it
looks like there's a new antique on the
shelf of your grandmother's collection.
so much funny in the atmosphere that the ozone layer
would ignite
However, it did not ignite, and his comedy career
skyrocketed. With an intact ozone layer, an unconven
tional delivery type, and an array of surreal and odd
jokes, Mitch Hedberg quickly became a star with a
special on Comedy Central and ten appearances on the
Late Show with David Letterman.
Mitch Hedberg was found dead on the evening of
March 29th. According to the New Jersey medical
examiner's office, he died of "multiple drug toxicity,"
including cocaine and heroine.
His style, a surreal kind of matter-of-fact delivery
style, made him one of the first comedians in the mod
ern era to use that sort of unconventional comedy. His
stage fright was a large part of his comedy, in both
how he held himself onstage and how he performed.
His stage fright contributed to his delivery of hold.
ing his head down, with his hair in his eyes, and wear
ing sunglasses onstage. Early in his career, he would
often perform far upstage or facing away from the
audience so that he did not have to look at them.
However, he developed a strategy of dealing with
bombed jokes. If a joke did not receive the apprecia
tion he received, he would add a resigned "Alright,
alright." Following a bombed joke at one perform
ance, Mitch commented,"All right...that joke is going
to be good because I'm going to take all the words out
and add new words. That joke will be fixed."
Those who are interested in Mitch's comedy should
check out his official website,
www.mitchhedberg.net. Even though Mitch Hedberg
is dead and in a drug-induced afterlife, his work lives
on through the adoration of his fans. Those who love
his work are generally able
to quote almost every line
of Mitch Hedberg's work
without hesitation. Every
fan of every kind of come
dy. however, should famil
iarize themselves with this
titan of comedy.
enough to force down until I find a meal worthy with seven other people while in a straightjacket.
enough to compete with something my mother would Mind you, those seven other people are also shoulder
cook. However, that task is near-impossible to fulfill to shoulder with seven others, making it all the more
for, as a freshman, I have no real access to a stove-top, difficult to achieve one's goal of eating for that lunch
Yet, as I walk in! hour. Eventually, you might
Bruno's, as fine an estal obtain your delicious snack,
lishment as it is, I think but who's to say you'll actu
myself that I should' , ally have the time to pay for it
remembered to bring and eat it before your next
oxygen tank with me. W class? If that's not what
nearly half of the studei you're worried about, and
body allocated in thi you'd like to find somewhere
claustrophobia-induci , to sit instead, Godspeed.
dining center, one finds Finding a seat in Bruno's is
hard to believe that the like a quest for the Holy
sustaining his or herself Grail. Except instead of your
actually oxygen, and noi adversary being a small
mix of exhaled CO2 woodland creature with a
fumes from every mall taste for blood, it is a line full
flatulence and Axe bodk of hungry college students
spray, fifty percent of the
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women who have overdone Students are able to find plentiful seating only in en.
it on the perfume earlier the mid-afternoon and late evening
that day and the body odor that radiates from those
coming from the Junker center; and, that's just the
breathing space
Physically, if I could compare my experience
retrieving a sandwich to anything, it's like trying to
outstretch your arm while being shoulder to shoulder
Friday, September 14, 2007
Mitch Hedberg Quotes
• I ordered a chicken sandwich but I
don't think the waitress understood me
because she said, "How would you like
your eggs?" So I tried to answer her any
how. I said "Incubated, and then raised,
and then beheaded, and then plucked and
then cut up then put onto a grill then put
onto a bun, shit it's gonna take awhile. I
don't have time, scrambled!
I like an escalator, man, 'cause an esca
lator can never break. It can only become
stairs. There would never be an
"Escalator Temporarily Out of Order"
sign, only "Escalator Temporarily Stairs.
Sorry for the Convenience."
• I was in a casino, I was standing by the
door, and a security guard came over and
said "You're gonna have to move. You're
blocking the fire exit." As though if there
was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're
flammable and have legs, you are never
blocking a fire exit. Unless you are a
table.
I like rice. Rice is great when you're
hungry and you want 2,000 of some
thing.
Don't get me wrong, I love
Bruno's and I love the food. I even enjoy my alien
chicken sandwich; but, what doesn't amuse me is sit
ting face to face, and I mean skin on skin, with some
stranger, whose drool is dripping on my sandwich
because he's hungry and waiting in line, which
stretches up the ramp toward the TV.