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LAS VEGAS, NV For several months, the event has been the subject of conversation and speculation around water coolers throughout the world. The name Stuart Hunter has been on every tongue. Women have swooned. Men have been thrown into fits of both jealousy and admiration.
After all, before yesterday, no man had set aside his fear as Hunter did. Men have walked across Niagara Falls with nothing but a tightrope to support them. They’ve jumped motorcycles over rows of burning cars. But not once has anyone attempted the feat that Hunter has dedicated his entire life to accomplishing.
“I’ve wanted to do this since I was just a young boy,” said a jubilant Hunter during a press conference at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas following the event. “My mother always told me I couldn’t do it.”
Yesterday, however, Hunter’s mother celebrated his achievement right along with him. The beaming Mrs. Hunter was in the front row of the spectators, cheering her son on to triumph.
During the press conference, Hunter’s mother, Hazel, looked to her son and said, “Stuart, I know I always told you never to run with scissors, but I’m so proud of you.”
Hunter spent the last 22 years training for this day. He began by standing with scissors. Gradually, he began walking with scissors. He worked his way up to a trot. And even a skip. But never, until yesterday—in front of millions of pay-per-view viewers and a live audience—did he try running with scissors.
And run he did. Hunter sprinted a grand total of 100 meters with the scissors in his hand, cheered on by screaming well-wishers.
To them, Hunter is a hero. He is, after all, the only man to have run with scissors—and lived to tell the story.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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