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PSU reference in movie "Spotlight"

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If you have seen the great movie "Spotlight" yet, did you catch the indirect reference to the issues that occurred at Happy Valley?

At the end of the scene were Rachel McAdam's character was interviewing an abuse victim in a restaurant/bar, when the characters got up to leave a television was playing in the background and guess who was on the TV. It was a shot of JoePa on the sideline. Now, the film maker could have put any scene on the television as filler so why did he choose a scene with Paterno? Given the fact that the movie was about the effort to go after Cardinal Law of Boston for knowing about the sexual abuse amongst his priests, its pretty obvious what the film maker thinks about the cesspool in the middle of the state.

That is why I sincerely wish we never played that team ever again.
 
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IamHeisenberg said:
That is why I sincerely wish we never played that team ever again.
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Absolutely. It's a complete slap in the face to any victim that they still have a football team. It basically sends the message that, well we feel bad for all of you but we can't just cancel Penn State football, it's football, it's much too important to be destroyed. Just sickening.
 
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If you have seen the great movie "Spotlight" yet, did you catch the indirect reference to the issues that occurred at Happy Valley?

At the end of the scene were Rachel McAdam's character was interviewing an abuse victim in a restaurant/bar, when the characters got up to leave a television was playing in the background and guess who was on the TV. It was a shot of JoePa on the sideline. Now, the film maker could have put any scene on the television as filler so why did he choose a scene with Paterno? Given the fact that the movie was about the effort to go after Cardinal Law of Boston for knowing about the sexual abuse amongst his priests, its pretty obvious what the film maker thinks about the cesspool in the middle of the state.

That is why I sincerely wish we never played that team ever again.
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It still hasn't made it's way up here. Very frustrating as there are a number of movies I'm dying to see but just haven't ben released in Pittsburgh.
 
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It still hasn't made it's way up here. Very frustrating as there are a number of movies I'm dying to see but just haven't ben released in Pittsburgh.
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I think I read where it will be released to the country as a whole at the end of December. I don't go to movies much anymore but I think that one will be a must see.
 
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I think I read where it will be released to the country as a whole at the end of December. I don't go to movies much anymore but I think that one will be a must see.
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I've noticed that Cinemark and the Loews always show most every movie nominated for an Oscar (including Best Actor, Actress) the 2 weeks or so before the show. That's when I power watch all the flicks that never made it here. Dying to see "Room" and I know it will never come to Pittsburgh. Very frustrating.
 
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I've noticed that Cinemark and the Loews always show most every movie nominated for an Oscar (including Best Actor, Actress) the 2 weeks or so before the show. That's when I power watch all the flicks that never made it here. Dying to see "Room" and I know it will never come to Pittsburgh. Very frustrating.
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Room is playing at Manor in Squirrel Hill.
 
In the recent Indy film "Holidaysburg," which ran on Starz, the star character was having a conversation with a friend about how her friends weren't taking college serious at Penn State and said (while laughing) they are majoring in Parks and Recreation. She said, what ate theu going to do, manage a playground?
 
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In the recent Indy film "Holidaysburg," which ran on Starz, the star character was having a conversation with a friend about how her friends weren't taking college serious at Penn State and said (while laughing) they are majoring in Parks and Recreation. She said, what ate theu going to do, manage a playground?
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I thought that was a really good movie. The girl that directed that film was even from State College.
 
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The book was fabulous.
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It was great. A very uncomfortable read. I admire writers who can put you into the heads of someone who is going through such an unbelievable experience and make it seem as if you are going through the same thing. The book found the humanity that people can find even in the worst of situations.
 
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I thought that was a really good movie. The girl that directed that film was even from State College.
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Little background on that movie - it was connected to the reality show "The Chair" last year on Starz. Much like "Project Greenlight" but the premise of The Chair was that 2 different directors got the same script, same amount of money and time and their finished movies were judged by "commercial success" and a winner was chosen. LOVED the show, it was much more in depth than Project Greenlight and it was all filmed in Pittsburgh! In fact the cinematography for the show was fabulous and almost like a love letter to Pittsburgh. (The show recently won best reality show from a critic's group.) If it is available for download anywhere, I highly recommend it.

It was produced by a partner of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Chris Moore, who was originally connected to Project Greenlight and Zachary Quinto (Spock in new Star Trek and a graduate of Central Catholic and CMU) along with others. They worked with Point Park and successfully raised the money privately to fund these movies. Now for the bad: The flip movie of this script (I can't remember the name but you can google it) ended up winning the competition but the film was wretched (so bad Quinto refused to be attached to it) but commercially it was more successful. "Holidaysburg" was simply a much better film.

I don't think the show did very well in ratings so I'm no sure they will run another season and even if so, probably wouldn't be in Pittsburgh.
 
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Little background on that movie - it was connected to the reality show "The Chair" last year on Starz. Much like "Project Greenlight" but the premise of The Chair was that 2 different directors got the same script, same amount of money and time and their finished movies were judged by "commercial success" and a winner was chosen. LOVED the show, it was much more in depth than Project Greenlight and it was all filmed in Pittsburgh! In fact the cinematography for the show was fabulous and almost like a love letter to Pittsburgh. (The show recently won best reality show from a critic's group.) If it is available for download anywhere, I highly recommend it.

It was produced by a partner of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Chris Moore, who was originally connected to Project Greenlight and Zachary Quinto (Spock in new Star Trek and a graduate of Central Catholic and CMU) along with others. They worked with Point Park and successfully raised the money privately to fund these movies. Now for the bad: The flip movie of this script (I can't remember the name but you can google it) ended up winning the competition but the film was wretched (so bad Quinto refused to be attached to it) but commercially it was more successful. "Holidaysburg" was simply a much better film.

I don't think the show did very well in ratings so I'm no sure they will run another season and even if so, probably wouldn't be in Pittsburgh.
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I'm very familiar with the show on Starz and did like the Hollidaysburg movie better.
 
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