Sunday, July 17, 2005

Essay Seventy-Six

The late Sunday Edition of MultiCultClassics Minutes…

• Cardinal Health Inc. is introducing pill bottles that talk, providing recorded messages to give patients dosage instructions. Viagra containers will probably play pick-up lines.

• Tiger Woods picked up his 10th major championship with a decisive victory at the British Open. “No matter how good you play, you can always play better,” he said. That’s tough news for the competition.

• The competition in the 2005 Emmy Awards Best Commercial category includes entries from @radical.media, inc., BBDO New York, DDB Chicago, DDB Los Angeles and Fallon New York. Congratulations to the nominees for their outstanding achievements. Then again, Jennifer Garner also nabbed a nomination.

• Hey, how come Jennifer Garner — whose greatest acting achievement is Elektra — got a nomination, but Anthony Anderson was overlooked for his brilliant performance on The Shield? Anderson’s Antwan Mitchell character made The Shield’s nasty cops look downright meek.

• Here’s the latest quote from Illinois State Senator Reverend James Meeks on his Crash Moment confrontation with a nasty cop: “I’m an African American who had recourse. I’m an elected official. But if that happened to me, Ray Ray doesn’t have a chance; ain’t nothing he can do.”

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