“Within his words…between the lines…lies the truth.”
Such are the phrases I saw splashed across the big screen in the trailer for "Anonymous," director Roland Emmerich’s latest conspiracy minded/non-sci-fi disaster movie that entertains the notion that the famous plays William Shakespeare wrote were actually written by someone else.
Watching that trailer again on YouTube a few days ago made me think how those phrases may well apply to Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach who was arrested Nov. 5 and charged with 40 counts of child sex abuse involving eight boys.
If any of his family, friends or anyone interested in the Penn State scandal are looking for clues to his dark side, they certainly aren’t checking out Sandusky’s books, "Coaching Linebackers" or "101 Linebacker Drills" which were published back in 2000, on barnesandnoble.com.
Chances are they are searching the Internet in hopes of getting their hands on his 2000 autobiography, "Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story."
Out of curiosity last week, I searched for that book written by the “Great Pretender” as Sandusky liked to call himself according to an 11/20/11 CNN article by Ann O’Neill and Wayne Drash on the Internet. The book reportedly focuses more on the author’s association with children through his charity, The Second Mile, than he is reveling interested readers with tales of his football glory days as both a player and later a coach.
“He talks a lot in that book about hugging kids, about loving to be around kids,” editor David Newhouse of The Patriot News told CNN’s Piers Morgan. “There’s some chilling things in that book, and it’s only when you put them together with the allegations that you can see, perhaps what he meant.”
Up until a few days ago, the words I saw on amazon’s posting for the book were “Sign up to be notified when this item becomes available.”
Today, I see that used copies of the book are being sold, one for $59.71, the other for $249.50 which is also the same price a seller has listed on eBay.
A few of the books for sale on eBay are reportedly autographed copies signed by the “Great Pretender” himself with the words “May your life be touched with hope and happiness.”
Roth’s reason for burning Gacy’s paintings was “to get them off the face of the earth.”
Even if Sandusky is found innocent, anyone with any moral decency should still be more than just a little disturbed when a guy like the “Great Pretender” admits during a Nov. 14 phone interview with Bob Costas on NBC’s "Rock Center with Brian Williams" that he “horsed around” and showered with young boys.
“I am innocent of those charges,” he told Costas.
Unlike the Earl of Oxford (Rhys Ifans) in "Anonymous" (2011) who dies knowing his name will never be attached to the plays he supposedly wrote, if you truly believe in such outlandish “Hollyweird” conspiracy theories, I don’t think I would be too far off in my assumption given the charges against him if Jerry Sandusky wishes he really were “anonymous.”
“It still comes as a shock to us about Jerry,” said NFL Hall of Famer Franco Harris in the 11/20/11 CNN story. “He reached far and wide, and people that were very, very close to him just had no clue. We all believed in what Jerry was doing.”
As family, friends, co-workers and loyal college football fans come to the sudden realization that the man they thought they knew had a sinister dark side, I can’t help but wonder if the line they are now telling themselves is one I also saw displayed in black capital letters in the Anonymous trailer.
“We’ve all been played.”
11/28/11
Such are the phrases I saw splashed across the big screen in the trailer for "Anonymous," director Roland Emmerich’s latest conspiracy minded/non-sci-fi disaster movie that entertains the notion that the famous plays William Shakespeare wrote were actually written by someone else.
Watching that trailer again on YouTube a few days ago made me think how those phrases may well apply to Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach who was arrested Nov. 5 and charged with 40 counts of child sex abuse involving eight boys.
If any of his family, friends or anyone interested in the Penn State scandal are looking for clues to his dark side, they certainly aren’t checking out Sandusky’s books, "Coaching Linebackers" or "101 Linebacker Drills" which were published back in 2000, on barnesandnoble.com.
Chances are they are searching the Internet in hopes of getting their hands on his 2000 autobiography, "Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story."
Out of curiosity last week, I searched for that book written by the “Great Pretender” as Sandusky liked to call himself according to an 11/20/11 CNN article by Ann O’Neill and Wayne Drash on the Internet. The book reportedly focuses more on the author’s association with children through his charity, The Second Mile, than he is reveling interested readers with tales of his football glory days as both a player and later a coach.
“He talks a lot in that book about hugging kids, about loving to be around kids,” editor David Newhouse of The Patriot News told CNN’s Piers Morgan. “There’s some chilling things in that book, and it’s only when you put them together with the allegations that you can see, perhaps what he meant.”
Up until a few days ago, the words I saw on amazon’s posting for the book were “Sign up to be notified when this item becomes available.”
Today, I see that used copies of the book are being sold, one for $59.71, the other for $249.50 which is also the same price a seller has listed on eBay.
A few of the books for sale on eBay are reportedly autographed copies signed by the “Great Pretender” himself with the words “May your life be touched with hope and happiness.”
Honestly, I have no interest in getting my hands on what I refer to as “child rapist memorabilia” once Sandusky has his day in court and is possibly convicted of the charges against him nor am I interested in finding out the key to his madness.Anyone who purchases the book, if they have any common sense, they’ll do what Naperville businessman Joseph Roth did back in 1994 when he purchased 21 paintings done by executed serial killer John Wayne Gacy according to a May 18, 1994 article in the Chicago Tribune and light a match.
Roth’s reason for burning Gacy’s paintings was “to get them off the face of the earth.”
Even if Sandusky is found innocent, anyone with any moral decency should still be more than just a little disturbed when a guy like the “Great Pretender” admits during a Nov. 14 phone interview with Bob Costas on NBC’s "Rock Center with Brian Williams" that he “horsed around” and showered with young boys.
“I am innocent of those charges,” he told Costas.
Unlike the Earl of Oxford (Rhys Ifans) in "Anonymous" (2011) who dies knowing his name will never be attached to the plays he supposedly wrote, if you truly believe in such outlandish “Hollyweird” conspiracy theories, I don’t think I would be too far off in my assumption given the charges against him if Jerry Sandusky wishes he really were “anonymous.”
“It still comes as a shock to us about Jerry,” said NFL Hall of Famer Franco Harris in the 11/20/11 CNN story. “He reached far and wide, and people that were very, very close to him just had no clue. We all believed in what Jerry was doing.”
As family, friends, co-workers and loyal college football fans come to the sudden realization that the man they thought they knew had a sinister dark side, I can’t help but wonder if the line they are now telling themselves is one I also saw displayed in black capital letters in the Anonymous trailer.
“We’ve all been played.”
11/28/11
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