No, but, of all the High Drama ways to capitalize on bad news, don't you think ABC would love to have a co-anchor with a big, dramatic scar above his collar, a scar everybody knows he got in the process of his work?
Unfortunately (from I've seen of traumatic injuries) the scars are more likely to be disfiguring than dashing. That is, they'll pull features subtly out of symmetry and push faces towards the uncanny valley.
Jesus, I'm just a ray of sunshine today, aren't I?
Glass half full? Barely a quarter full and that's arsenic!
Jesus, I'm just a ray of sunshine today, aren't I?
Just keep reminding yourself, "science may have advanced in the fifteen years since I dated a med student. science may have advanced in the fifteen years since I dated a med student." That's bound to help.
Seeing now that he played Eliza Dushku's boytoy in Bring It On years later.
Actually her brother and Kirsten Dunst's boyfriend.
Now all I can picture is Bob Woodruff in a Xander eyepatch anchoring World News Tonight. It shouldn't be funny, but it is.
Jeez, David, go get a martini.
They've mentioned broken bones, and I think I specifically saw mention of a shoulder blade, so not facial. If the blast was from the back (as the shoulder blade would imply) and there was no significant breaking of facial bones, he should clean up okay. I'd be more worried about the memory, speech, etc. functionality than the rest, as far as his anchor prospects are concerned.
Balthazar Getty doesn't have blue eyes. Right? I haevn't seen Alias in a couple weeks, but I did see him on that show.
Balthazar Getty. Not blue-eyed.
I just don't get it.
There definitely are ugly scars on men. I just hope he gets his faculties back. The rest is for later.
So sad. All my movie trivia knowledge has flown out of the window today. And to think, I even subjected myself to Bring It On Again. I will hang my head in shame and go sit in a corner with Balthazar Getty while he tries to bum cigarettes and use my cell phone.
he tries to bum cigarettes and use my cell phone
All this in addition to the fact that he's one of
those
Gettys.
My sister and I Google News-ed simultaneously. They're very vague about the exact positioning of people and blast radius and all, but my vague guess is that he was standing back to the blast location, was thrown forward (breaking the arm and ribs) and then bounced back.
So, neurologically, there is the basic scrambled-eggs issue; and then there is the question of what objects his helmet could protect him from. The scrambled-eggs problem could be severe, or it could leave him with a headache and a new appreciation for Muhammad Ali.
Suddenly I am remembering that New Yorker article about Urgent Four. You remember that, sister-o-mine? It was all about the protocols of treating traumatic brain injury, but the patient in question was a (at the time unidentified) rape victim, so they called her by a code name. (She lived.)
