This week in Concessions, I got the Skulls trilogy in the mail. I watched the Skulls trilogy all the way through, kind of, including the thrillingly vapid DVD extras:
In a short making-of documentary, the cast and director of The Skulls (there are no extras for the two sequels) achieve truly amazing heights of blowhardsmanship, sometimes devolving into Sarah Palin—esque scramble-ramblings. Sayeth ironing-board-with-teeth Leslie Bibb: “When you look at this, you see it’s a moral tale. That friendship should not—is so precious, that it should not be, like, money can come along, and money is very enticing, and you think it’s gonna change your life, but it can, I mean, that money is the root of all evil—[long pause]—but in a strange way with this movie it kind of is. You don’t get anything for free.”
Read the whole thing here.
In related news, Yale University and its Skull and Bones secret society (on which The Skulls is based) are being sued for stealing Geronimo’s bones:
Geronimo’s great-grandson Harlyn Geronimo said his family believes Skull and Bones members took some of the remains in 1918 from a burial plot in Fort Sill, Okla., to keep in its New Haven clubhouse, a crypt. The alleged graverobbing is a longstanding legend that gained some validity in recent years with the discovery of a letter from a club member that described the theft.
“I believe strongly from my heart that his spirit was never released,” Harlyn Geronimo said.
According to lore, members of Skull and Bones — including former President George W. Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush — dug up his grave when a group of Army volunteers from Yale were stationed at the fort during World War I, taking his skull and some of his bones.
Harlyn Geronimo, 61, wants those remains and any held by the federal government turned over to the family so they can be reburied near the Indian leader’s birthplace in southern New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness.
The letter, sent to F. Trubee Davison by Winter Mead, said Geronimo’s skull and other remains were taken from the leader’s burial site, along with several pieces of tack for a horse.
“The skull of the worthy Geronimo the Terrible, exhumed from its tomb at Fort Sill by your club and Knight Haffuer, is now safe inside the T — together with is well worn femurs, bit and saddle horn,” Mead wrote.
(So far, Leslie Bibb has not released a statement regarding Geronimo’s bones.)
Images from Wikipedia.
The Apaches should be granted full access to Skull and Bones HQ, free to take whatever they want, including the furniture and the pictures off the wall, and smash up whatever they leave behind.
Frat boys are the worst.
@ fnarf, including the scalps of all members.
there is no question that the bones should be returned if yales still has them.
my only fear is that the remains were destroyed. the rumor mill stretches all the way to the yale anthropology department that the remains were definitely at one point located at yale, if not still.
Wow, that POS film had two sequels?
Careful, Fnarf. You may be veering into a Duke Lacrosse team psyche.
This guy Harlyn Geronimo has been up to this for years, and actually met with the bone people more than once. There’s a few big holes in his story:
1) Fort Sill, where Geronimo is buried, denies any history of a disruption or violation of Geronimo’s grave.
2) Prescott Bush’s description of the “grave of Geronimo” is completely different from the actual grave. The letter describes a vault with iron bars, while Geronimo is actually buried under a stone marker.
3) Several of Geronimo’s other family members have said they do NOT believe the grave was ever robbed. There’s an old New Yorker article about this from the 80’s that I’m trying to locate…stay tuned…..
I’m not saying this shouldn’t be looked into, but the guy’s got to come up with some proof that some sort of crime was actually committed. Some second-hand letter just isn’t good enough. I think the fact that he’s also suing Barack Obama, the secretary of defense, and the secretary of the Army just goes to show how potentially batshit crazy this guy is.
Be skeptical all the time, even when you don’t want to be.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090218/ap_o…
@6, still. I don’t care if the bones are there. Let ’em ransack the joint. Fuck the Skull and Bones.
Gaaaaaaah! The Skulls!
This was filmed at my undergraduate college, up in the Great White North. This little college had its own secret society, which pretty much went batshit when the movie came out. Like, imagine three hundred undergrads wearing black academic gowns attending the opening night, many in formal wear, lots of them also wearing the formal insignia of the society, and plenty of them crazy drunk.
Yeeeeeaaaaaaaah.
@7
Got it, Fnarf. If facts are irrelevant and it’s simply about impulse, then reason has no place here.
I’m very familiar with the saga of Geronimo’s bones and Yeek nailed it. I’m impressed. Wow, someone communicating knowledge and common sense on the subject.
Since Yeek’s posts, leaders of the Apache tribes involved have made clear they don’t support Harlyn Geronimo and dismissed the Skull & Bones legend as a joke.
Descendants of Geronimo’s son Robert, the largest number of direct descendants, stated on Feb 27th that they are strongly opposed to Harlyn’s campaign to disturb their ancestor’s grave and plan legal action to stop him.
The Ft. Sill grave will not be moved and the Skull & Bones legend is too silly for comment.
The media portrays Harlyn Geronimo as leader of the Geronimo family and Apache people. GOOGLE him and pages pop up describing him in a reverential tone. Yet most Apaches express a different opinion. The majority of Geronimo descendants are enraged that he passes himself off as their leader; many disown him entirely as a Geronimo. Traditional Apaches are strongly opposed to his campaign to move the grave. Folks on the Mescalero Apache Rez where he lives question why he describes himself as a medicine man because they’ve never seen him function as such in his own community.
From Day One, Harlyn has lobbied outside the Apache community for support. He knows how to manipulate white-guilt liberals who have never met an Apache. He pushes all the PC buttons. He has non-Indians and non-Apaches around the world screaming that we must give Harlyn what he wants, that it is the only just and moral action to take. But he has very little support from the people directly involved in the matter. Most Geronimos and Apaches are opposed to his cause. Many dismiss him as a publicity hungry phony. The general attitude is that the Skull & Bones legend is frat boy nonsense and that Harlyn’s disturbing the Ft. Sill grave would be a desecration and violation of Apache tradition.