Hiding in Plain Sight, Five Great Imposters
This Week on the 5: Five Famous Fakers The last thing a con wants is to become famous. A famous imposter, is a failed imposter. But these 5 con men were infamously successful at their game until they got caught. They were so good, that Hollywood made movies about all five of em. * * * Frank Abagnale Jr. One of the most famous imposters in history started in check fraud, and later posed as an airline pilot, the chief resident pediatrician in a...
read moreFive Time Travel Ideas You Haven’t Tried
This Week on The 5: Five Ways To Travel Through Time According to Film We love time travel movies so much that we’ll even watch the worst ones over and over. Maybe its because we desperately want to see the future or travel to the past. Or maybe it’s just because we’re dying to figure out how it will be done. Here are five methods of time travel that we learned from watching movies. * * * The Delorean: Back to the Future. Dr. Emmett Brown’s time traveling Delorean is loosely based on the theory that...
read moreThe 5: Fantastic Kentucky Derby Finishes
This Week on the 5: Fantastic Kentucky Derby Finishes On Kentucky Derby Day the whole country suddenly becomes horse racing fans. It’s the first leg of the Triple Crown and that means no matter which horse wins, the chance is wide open for a triple crown. That’s what makes the Derby the most exciting two minutes in sports. From upsets to favorites to record breaking times, the first weekend in May is always thrilling in Louisville. Here are 5 of the most exciting finishes in the Kentucky Derby. Grab a Mint Julep, an...
read moreThe 5: Real Bands Doing Surprise Sets in Movies
This Week on the 5: Surpise! The Band’s Here! What could be better than your favorite band showing up and playing a surprise set for you and your friends? Ever happen to you? No ? Well it happens quite a bit in films. Not only are they willing to do it but also seems like they are OK with people jumping on stage with them. Must be great to have a friend who owns Speaker City. * * * Morris Day and The Time play The Bluntman and Chronic Opening Night...
read moreThe Five: Great Negro League Ball Players Who Never Got to Play Major League Ball
This Week on The Five: Negro League Ballplayers Who Didn’t Make the Jump But Could Have The success of the film ’42′ has introduced a new generation of fans to the life and legacy of Jackie Robinson. It was also sparked a renewed interest in The Negro Leagues, where Robinson played for The Kansas City Monarchs in the mid 40s. Jackie Robinson is the most famous of the Negro League alumni, but there were others who were just as, if not more so, talented that, sadly, never got a chance to play Major League Baseball. ...
read moreThe 5: Sports Alternate Histories
This Week on the 5: ’What Ifs’ That Could Have Changed Sports We all know the history of our favorite sports; the champions, the stories, the greatest players and the worst, but what if things went a little bit differently? What if a ball bounces a different way, saving an injury? Or the cup misses Artest? In sports anything can happen, and any one thing could’ve set off a chain reaction, changing history as we know it. Here are 5 “What Ifs” and the “Could Have Beens” that go with them. * *...
read moreThe 5: New Punk Classics
This Week on the 5: New Punk Classics 1994 is commonly called the year punk broke. Headlined by Green Day’s “Dookie”, ’94 also saw “Stranger than Fiction” by Bad Religion, NoFX’s “Punk in Drublic”, “Let’s Go” by Rancid, “Smash” by The Offspring, Jawbreaker’s “24 Hour Revenge Therapy” and the first Blink 182 album “Chesire Cat”. Along with these extremely visible punk albums there were a host of other seminal works by punk, alternative and otherwise...
read moreThe Five: Short Films Before They Were Famous
This Week on The 5: Short Films By Great Directors Before They Were Famous Everyone had to start somewhere, but great artistry can be seen even in the earliest unpolished places. Note: most of these are ripped from ancient bootleg video sources. If you’re going to whine about the poor video quality, go watch your Bluray copy of Batman part 7 for the millionth time instead. * * * Paul Thomas Anderson. Before he achieved the greatest artistic achievement of his career, dating Fiona Apple, he made this short, “Coffee and...
read moreThe 5: TV Hook Ups That Would Have Been Bad For You (And Them)
This Week on the 5: Sometimes The Writers Know Better Than You People want to see their favorite characters on their favorite TV shows hook up, it’s as old as television. What drives people truly nuts is when writers don’t give the viewer what they want. They don’t give them the satisfaction of two popular characters finally cosummating their sometimes years long relationships. Usually writers know what they’re doing, some characters just should never be together because once that happens, the viewer’s gotten what...
read moreThe 5: Best SXSW 2013 Artists
This Week On the 5: The Five Best Artists To Watch This Year at SXSW SXSW has been releasing tracks from the acts playing during the festival since 2005. This year, 7.39 gigs of music were released through a torrent DRM free— that’s 1,210 tracks from as many different acts. We’ve listened to every single one, good or bad and sifted them down to our five favorites. Here are our picks for the five best out of the 1,210 songs released spanning every genre . This couldn’t have been done without Ben Stolt compiling...
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