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In a Nutshell
By Rachael Lundy
World
‘Slumdog Millionaire’ director looks for child-actors’ best interests
Director Danny Boyle, who directed “Slumdog Millionaire,” defends his child-actor payment decision in response to claims made by the boys’ parents who suggest the boys were grossly underpaid for their work on the movie set.
Upon reaching the age of 18, the two prominent child-stars, Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail, will receive a hefty sum of money, pending one stipulation: that they stay in school, CNN reported.
“We thought long and hard about how best can we benefit them and we decided to put in place an education plan for them,” said Boyle in a CNN interview. “We put them in school, a very good school, which they’re paid for to stay in until they’re 18.
Nation
First-daughter mania created over Malia and Sasha
Everywhere one looks, he or she is bombarded with the first-daughters’ mania – from Ty look-a-like dolls, to real-life look-a-like models. Many businesses are promptly jumping on this money making bandwagon, and Michelle Obama is not so excited about some of these money making endeavors.
Ty’s Sweet Sasha and Marvelous Malia are remarkably similar to President Obama’s own daughters, but Ty upholds that this is merely a coincidence and that one thing has nothing to do with the other, even though Ty is using the actual Obama girls’ names, CNN reported.
“We feel it is inappropriate to use young private citizens for marketing purposes,” said Katie McCormick, First Lady Michelle Obama’s press secretary, CNN reported.
State
Fox & Friends holds debate on teaching cursive writing in public schools
Brian Rodriguez, GATORWORKS.NET founder, was featured on Fox & Friends in a debate on whether or not cursive writing is currently a useless skill. Rodriguez upholds that students should be taught how to type on a keyboard, before learning subjects such as cursive writing.
“Cursive writing is really a dying art form,” Rodriguez said to Fox News during the Fox & Friends debate. “It serves no real function in our business community that is surrounded by emails, text messages and social networks like Facebook.”
Todd Misura, former fourth-grade teacher, takes the counter argument to Louisiana’s Rodriguez, during this debate on Fox News.
“I think cursive is something that is useful to children in school,” said Misura to Fox News. “The day has not come in which every child, in every school, in every corner of this great country of ours has a computer to be able to access as they’re learning how to write.”
The debate remains ongoing on whether or not teaching penmanship in schools is a dying art form.
Originally Published: February 4, 2009
