For her first major big screen outing I Love You, Beth Cooper, Hayden Panettiere (the romantic comedy’s stunning leading lady), was required to dust off her pom-poms to play another high school cheerleader. “I think I’m just going to start putting it in my contract that I refuse to wear a cheerleading outfit for the rest of my career,” the Save the cheerleader, save the world girl from the hit TV series Heroes says with laugh. “But, luckily, in this film, I only had to put it on once for a picture, but that was it.”
In this chat with Earl Dittman, Panettiere describes experiencing high school for the first time, sheds light on the future of her character on Heroes, and explains why everything you’ve heard about her probably isn’t true.
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Today marks the 153rd birthday of Nikola Tesla – a Serbian inventor, electrical engineer, and probably the world’s most famous “mad scientist.” Among his numerous inventions, Tesla is credited with pioneering the radio, the somewhat-terrifying Tesla coil (shown after the jump), early robots, and the popularization of alternating current (AC) power. He also had a feud with his former employer Thomas Edison, who allegedly refused to make good on a $50,000 bet that Tesla couldn’t develop an AC power source — his reason for not paying being that Tesla didn’t understand American humour. Tesla promptly quit and went to work for Edison’s competitor, where he continued to harnass AC power.
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Yesterday (Thursday, June 9), racing fans lined up in front of the Izod section of The Bay at Queen and Yonge in downtown Toronto for an autograph signing with Torontonian Indycar Series driver Paul Tracy and former driver Al Unser, Jr. The event preceded today’s kickoff of the Honda Indy Toronto. Though the IndyCar Series Race will not take place until Sunday, the festivities — including the Vintager GT race, Firestone Indy Lights Race, and live concert series — will run all weekend long.
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