Audiences lapped up life in the fast lane as the street-racing sequel "2 Fast 2 Furious" roared to a $50.5 million opening weekend.
As vaguely depressed and ill as that makes you feel, which is a little odd given how you thought the movie was gone already. How you thought it was one of those annoying obnoxious horribly written embarrassingly lame chase-scene orgies that already wrote its tiny cultural footnote in the annals of sub-mediocre sensationalist filmmaking and had gone the way of "Biker Boyz" and "XXX" and similar crap. Here it is, raking in $50 mil, proving to your ever-hammered ennui-thick cortex that there really is no accounting for simplemindedness and high- fiving grunting.
But then again hey, hot dudes half-naked chicks MTV-style brain-spasm edits bitchin'-ass ultra-lame soundtracks really fast really ugly cars doing totally illegal and mostly physically impossible things in the name of money and crime and hunky vague homoerotica. Tyrese takes his shirt off a lot and the girls look all slithery and stupid -- what's not to love?
The third installment, "Way 2 Fast 2 Wickedly Furious Holy Crap Whoa," coming in summer 2004, promises really, really fast cars and crazy- ass stunts and the promise that Vin Diesel's bogus lug-nut career will have imploded by then and he'll come back to the monosyllabic material that fits more comfortably in his sweet little monosyllabic lug-nut brain.
Sentencing is scheduled July 15 for John Jamelske, 68. Associated Press, Jun. 10, 2003 08:20 AM
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A retired handyman pleaded guilty Tuesday to holding five women captive as sex slaves in an underground bunker over a 15-year period.
John Jamelske, 68, pleaded guilty to five counts of first-degree kidnapping. Under a plea deal, Jamelske could serve 18 years to life. Each count carried a maximum penalty of 25 years to life in prison. Sentencing is scheduled July 15.
"He's been very agitated and remorse- stricken. He's been very troubled at times over the past several weeks," said J. Michael Forsyth, Jamelske's lawyer.
When asked if Jamelske knew what he was did was wrong, Forsyth said, "It took a while for him to come around to that realization."
Jamelske has been held without bail since he was arrested April 7 on charges of holding a 16-year-old girl hostage for nearly seven months in a two-room concrete dungeon he built under the back yard of his suburban Syracuse home. The two small rooms contained a small tub, a bucket for a toilet, a microwave oven and a mattress.
The 16-year-old girl was able to sneak a phone call to her sister when Jamelske took her out in April to run an errand after six months of captivity, police said.
In a whispered call, she told her sister she was being held captive and raped. The call led police to a weathered, blue, ranch-style house, hidden behind a wall of 20-foot evergreens and fenced off from neighbors.
Following Jamelske's arrest, police identified four other women who said they were abducted and raped by him dating back to 1988.
Authorities say the victims included a 14-year-old girl taken in 1988, a 13- year-old girl in 1995, a 53-year-old woman in 1997, a 26-year-old in 2001 and the 16-year-old.
According to investigators, some of the victims said they went willingly with Jamelske after being offered a ride or coaxed into his car. The youngest teenagers had histories of running away from home. The 26-year-old woman told police she was high on drugs when she accepted a ride from Jamelske in 2001.
She went to police after she was released following two months of captivity, but was unable to lead investigators to the house. The older woman, who was held nine months, also was unable to tell police where she was held.
One of the teens was held for nearly two years, the other for 13 months, police said.
Audiences lapped up life in the fast lane as the street-racing sequel "2 Fast 2 Furious" roared to a $50.5 million opening weekend. 
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A retired handyman pleaded guilty Tuesday to holding five women captive as sex slaves in an underground bunker over a 15-year period.
