Go ‘head Dwayne, serve that chicken for a good cause!
Dwyane Wade is looking for work and KFC is hiring. On June 30 Wade tweeted “Any1 hiring?,” adding that “I’m available for all bar and bat mitzvah and weddings..but my specialty is balloon animals.” But how about animals plucked and fried in oil? The folks at Kentucky Fried Chicken know a good advertising gimmick when they see one, and have extended the wing of opportunity to Wade: saying in a press release that they’ll donate $250,000 to charity if Wade will take his talents to a KFC drive-thru.
The Colonel’s letter went as follows:
Dear Dwyane Wade,
We couldn’t help but notice your recent tweet about looking for a new line of work in light of the lockout. We’re always looking for folks with precisely your qualifications — initiative, teamwork and the ability to make buckets in a hurry.
We’ve always been proud to call you a former KFC employee and, it goes without saying we’d love to have you back on our team dishing out the World’s Best Chicken, like you dish out assists on the court.
Our offer: Come serve as an honorary captain at a local KFC drive-thru window. And, while we can’t match your most recent salary, we’ll honor your KFC service by making a donation in your name to Colonel’s Scholars, a charity providing young people with much needed college scholarships, if you accept. How’s that for a slam dunk?
So let us know if you’re ready to suit up for our squad (as you’ll remember, we’ve got some pretty cool uniforms). Our original coach, the legendary Colonel Sanders, knew a thing or two about buckets. And who knows, if you make a KFC-team comeback, we might just share some of his secrets with you.
We’ll keep your headset waiting.
Sincerely,
John Cywinski
General Manager, KFC U.S.
From what we hear, Dwayne used to work a KFC before he was drafted to the the league. A day at the drive-thru should bring back old memories, in addition to helping a charity, $250,000 stacks is serious bidness…
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Russell T. Davies is one of Britain's most influential television writers. He reinvented "Doctor Who," created "Queer as Folk" and "Torchwood," and now brings us "Torchwood: Miracle Day." The fourth installment of the "Doctor Who" spinoff, which premieres on Starz tonight, once again features immortal, time-traveling Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) and company, this time trying to save the world by figuring out why no one on Earth is dying.
Davies talked to the L.A. Times about the sci-fi series and his career in television.
What was the inspiration behind "Torchwood: Miracle Day"?
It's kind of a classic story, which is: death takes a holiday. That's an idea we've seen in millions of different "Twilight Zones" and things. I thought we'd build off that classic idea. What if we really took over the whole world for a long length of time? What if it changed society, changed who we are?
I think of "Torchwood" now as a show that, we sort of take situations like this and imagine how the human race would react. We did it with the previous miniseries, "Torchwood: Children of Earth." How far you would go to sacrifice people in order to save yourself? The moral pressure that puts on people. "Miracle Day" attacks the infrastructure of society. Within days, the health service comes under pressure. It's all a domino effect. And it allows for this intriguing thriller to unfold. I'm enormously excited by it.
It must be fun to sort of let your imagination run wild with that idea.
Oh, yes. And it really causes you to think. But the story is set on Earth, so it has certain responsibilities so it has to stay credible. It exists by being a reflection of our society and a comment on our society while still being fun.
You’re known for liking stories done on a big scale. Does it get harder to find ways to top yourself?
It doesn't really. I like the fact that I can afford a helicopter chase now and again. But the real drama is the character moments. That's what I really write well. It's the same for "Torchwood." When you reach Episode 9, there's such punch coming where we reveal the secrets of the show in a very clever way. But it doesn’t always have to be drama on a scale. Intimate moments are just as effective. It's just such a great cast. If you want to give me a scene with Bill Pullman (Oswald Danes) locked in a room with Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper), then I would happily write you the best drama in the world. It all comes down to good actors in the end.
Can you talk about how you became a show runner?
I started out working behind the scenes in children's television but always wanted to write. In Britain, we don't have show runners and such, or we didn’t used to. I became a writer in the early '90s, and then by 1999 I wrote "Queer as Folk," which took off around the world and became a Showtime series. That’s when I started to become a writer-producer. And when the BBC people brought back "Doctor Who" in 2005, they asked me to relaunch that show. That's when I became the proper show runner -- one of the first show runners in Britain; we sort of invented the title and its responsibilities from the American model.
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