Morning Express with Robin Meade

It's New Movie Friday on Morning Express with Robin Meade and Mr. Moviefone (aka: Russ Leatherman) is here as usual with a look at a few flicks to consider for your weekend:

"The Watch" -- Starring Ben Stiller and Jonah Hill. Leatherman says this one is “Ill. Ill timed, ill conceived & ill executed.” 

When he was young it was Angelo Taylor’s older brother who everyone thought was going to be the track star.  But Taylor’s mom Subrena Glenn says when he saw his brother win a national title he said, “I’m going to step my game up.”  Mom says, “He got tired of all of us teasing him because he was always coming in last.”  She says Taylor lost so often that after a while the family would just “take a break” when it was time for him to race, because they already knew the outcome. 

It wasn’t until Angelo was 15 that he won his first Junior National meet, but since then there’s been no looking back.

Why would an athlete CHOOSE to skip walking into the Opening Ceremony... arguably the biggest spectacle in the modern Olympic Games?  Double gold medal winner Courtney Shealy Hart explains that sometimes winning is more important than partying. 

Hart tells HLN's Bob Van Dillen that in Sydney, Australia the whole event took about 6 hours, and for an athlete that has to compete the next day, it can be a deal breaker.  She says her decision to watch it on TV rather than be part of the parade of nations with the rest of Team USA was easy after her coach laid out the options.  "Do you want to go to the opening ceremonies, or do you want to be on the gold medal stand tomorrow night?" he asked. 

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One week before the 2008 Olympic trials, swimmer Eric Shanteau was diagnosed with testicular cancer.  He made the decision then to wait until after the Games to have surgery, which made his doctor Jeff Carney very nervous.

Dr. Carney is chief of Urology at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and assistant professor of Urology at Emory University.  After Shanteau returned from Beijing, Dr. Carney got the green light to do the surgery at Emory University Hospital. 

Alluette Jones decided to open Alluette’s Café when she couldn’t find any restaurants in her hometown of Charleston doing soul food the way she thought it ought to be done – all natural, seasonal, and local. 

“This restaurant only provides what’s available now”, says Alluette, “So if you want watermelon in February, you can’t get it”.