Spike Taking Things Into His Own Hands

This morning's Courant has a great article - Spike Lee to Shoot Biopic on UConn Professor by Grace E. Merritt about a UConn professor developing a Time Machine and Spike Lee's interest in creating a biopic of this man's dream.

STORRS — - Imagine picking up the phone and Spike Lee's on the line and he's telling you he wants to make a movie about your life. Not just a small, arty film, but a major motion picture.

That's exactly what happened to Ron Mallett, a University of Connecticut physics professor who has developed a theory for time travel that could be a blueprint for a real time machine.

It seems the award-winning filmmaker read Mallett's memoir and was captivated by the tale of an African American boy so traumatized by the death of his father that he was driven to try to build a time machine so he could go back and save his father's life.

Mallett's memoir is a frank, personal journey about growing up in the Bronx, facing poverty and racism and eventually becoming among the first African Americans in the country to earn a Ph.D. in theoretical physics.

Now, those of us know that Spike's interest in this Time Machine goes way beyond the movie.

I think Spike wants to send Pat Riley a message telling him to sit John Starks' ass down for awhile during the playoffs and maybe intercept that Freddie Weis recommendation, and...