You may have seen the movie, No Country For Old Men. If not, check it out. This film is an example of why movies get made and why I they hook me (the good ones, that is). Amazing film and acting. Amazing. No silly, happy, pandering, unrealistic Hollywood ending that plays on people’s desire to feel good at the end of the story so they will keep coming back to the theater and spending money, so triple amazing.

If you saw that film, you perhaps noticed and maybe heard about lead actor Josh Brolin’s request that the film’s director get a shot of a fellow actor on a bridge wearing a “Templeton Eagles” jacket. Brolin went to middle school in local Templeton, and he did this as a nod to his time and friendships there.

Click on this YouTube clip and you can see a similar Oscar award winning cameo sweatshirt appearance pimping the Cal Poly Orfalea College of Business from some of our guanxi in Guangzhou — Lonnie Hodge and David DeGeest of the China Dream Blog for Charity Project.

David, a Grinnell College gradaute, was in a contest which put him in the running to be one of the few foreign expats in China who got to carry the Olympic torch for a few meters this upcoming summer (for more info see my prior blog post Vote For David DeGeest!).

Okay, so maybe this YouTube shot is not as dramatic as the No Country For Old Men scene I note above, but I had to make a link to acting and the Oscar in some way to spice this post up a bit.

And while you are at it, check out their limited edition items for silent auction (gifts of Olympic pins and coins from Lenovo, which David won through coming in as a runner-up in the Olympic torch carrying contest). The funds from this silent auction will go to their charity project, it’s a great cause, and these are good fellows. Click here jump in and bid. You can bid on anything (but leave the pins for me!). Let the bidding begin!