This is just depressing: according to the Wall Street Journal, Fox paid a high school valedictorian $1,800 to include a plug for I Love You, Beth Cooper in her speech.
Movie studio promotional hijinks
– July 29, 2009
This is just depressing: according to the Wall Street Journal, Fox paid a high school valedictorian $1,800 to include a plug for I Love You, Beth Cooper in her speech.
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Carissa Turner Smith is a compulsive reader, writer, and Irish dancer. She earned her Ph.D. in English at Penn State and currently teaches writing and American literature at Charleston Southern University. At age three, she announced that all she wanted to do was “sit at a desk and read and write,” and she has been trying to make good on that promise ever since. Fortunately, she is occasionally distracted from this mission by her husband Stephen and their cheese-obsessed cat. A loyal native of Arkansas, she has always loved the fact that Jesus dwelt in an underappreciated corner of Galilee (see John 1:46). 
Especially since from everything I hear, it was a crap movie.
On the other hand, this kind of thing provides a valuable lesson to graduating seniors: intelligence, ambition, and effort don’t share beds with ethics. The most successful people in this world won’t necessarily be good people and they’ll most likely have bid off tiny pieces of their soul in their quest to climb the ladder of Social Value. All in all, a lesson that’s right up there with Wear Sunscreen.
It’s also a lesson explored rather interestingly in the movie Cheaters. At least a movie studio didn’t pay an inner-city Academic Decathlon team to cheat in competition. They just made a movie about it after it had already happened.