Journey for Jensen (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
I was sad to hear that Estelle Getty died today. I used to love the TV show The Golden Girls when I was a teenager. My favorite character was Dorothy, the sarcastic substitute teacher portrayed by Bea Arthur. Which character was your favorite??????
Joanne Jacobs (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Julie Amero, a substitute teacher at a Connecticut middle school, didn’t know how to get rid of pornography that popped up on a classroom computer. Convicted of exposing children to pornography, her conviction was thrown out a year ago. But the DA hasn’t dropped the charges, leaving her in legal limbo. Let’s End Teacher’s [...]
TeenHollywood.com (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Will Jack Black be reprising his role as the hilarious substitute teacher in School of Rock?
KillerMovies (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
School is back in session for Paramount Pictures. Studio is developing a "School of Rock" sequel, with Jack Black attached to reprise his role as rock star wannabe/substitute teacher Dewey Finn, who in the original film turned a class of fifth-grade high-achievers into high-voltage rock 'n' rollers..
E! Online (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
School is back in session. Jack Black will reunite with director Richard Linklater to reprise his role as substitute teacher Dewey Finn in a sequel to 2005's hit comedy School of...
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
A “School of Rock” sequel is officially in the works, says Variety. Jack Black is attached to reprise his role as rock star wannabe/substitute teacher Dewey Finn who in the original film turned a class of fifth-grade high-achievers into high-voltage rock ‘n’ rollers. Richard Linklater will direct again, and Scott Rudin is returning as producer. Mike [...]
I Speak of Dreams (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
You remember Julie Amero, the substitute teacher in an internet-connected classroom. The computer was taken over by malware and began displaying sexually-explicit materials. Despite Amero's efforts to protect the students, she was charged and convicted. An internet-based effort to challenge...
SimplyScripts (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Script Girl’s weekly script sales report for the week ending July 11, 2008. Two groups of talking animals living together, a high school student in a murder plot orchestrated by his substitute teacher, male dancing cheerleaders, a modern day animal doctor hired to overlook mythological creatures and Inglorious Bastards script is floating around.
learning.now (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about Julie Amero, the substitute teacher whose conviction on child endangerment charges was set aside after computer experts demonstrated that spyware caused her PC to display adult images in a classroom. Thirteen months after the conviction was tossed, prosecutors still haven’t dropped the case - and the local media is hopping mad about it.
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
A former Somerset County substitute teacher has been sentenced to at least 17 years in prison for raping and assaulting young girl over nine years and video recording some of the assaults.
Techdirt (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
You may recall the case of Julie Amero, a substitute teacher in Connecticut who was found guilty of charges that she had showed pornography to children in her classroom, and who faced 40 years in jail. The problem was that the police and the prosecutors seemed unable to understand what had actually happened. The computer in the classroom had been infected by malware, which tossed up porn pop-up ads....
The Register (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Good name limbo Substitute teacher turned smut-serving spyware suspect Julie Amero remains stuck in legal limbo, with the case taking a toll on both her health and job prospects, Connecticut paper the Hartford Courant reports.…
SunbeltBLOG (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Remember Julie ? Rick Green, a journalist of high honor, writes about her plight: You would have thought when Superior Court Judge Hillary B. Strackbein tossed out the trumped-up conviction of a substitute teacher last year that the state of Connecticut would have decided to leave Julie Amero alone. Wrong. Unbelievably, more than 13 months after Strackbein set aside Amero's conviction on charges that...
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
LAND O' LAKES - A substitute teacher who said he lost his job because of claims that he was practicing wizardry plans to file a lawsuit against the Pasco County School Board.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
By BRIAN KELLEY Eleanor Rupert has lived a full life - not necessarily an exciting one, she said, but a happy one. And on Tuesday she reached the century mark.
