If you're a college professor and you want to take a day off from lecturing, why not just show a movie like they used to do in high school? It amounts to the same thing:
Hollywood beauty Cameron Diaz gave students at Stanford University a huge shock on Thursday when she turned up unannounced to give a lecture on environmentally friendly design. The Charlie's Angels star's appearance was filmed for the MTV series Stand In, where celebrities such as Marilyn Manson, Melissa Etheridge and Kanye West have appeared as guest lecturers at colleges across America.
I'm torn on how to react to this. My thrifty adult self considers the idea of Diaz, Manson, or West lecturing me on anything other than: the Justin Timberlake nobody knows, how to smoke opium laced with human bones, or why the CIA wants to kill all black people (respectively) laughable, and would likely ask the university to refund my tuition for those credit hours.
Then again, my college-aged self probably wouldn't have shown up for class anyway, since I'd most likely be sleeping off the cumulative effects of a twelve-pack of Mickey's Big Mouth and an all-night Gamera marathon.
And sometimes, the jokes write themselves:
Earlier last week, Madonna surprised students at New York's Hunter College when she turned up to take a film class.
Oh, to have been a student a Hunter College last week...
"Could you compare and contrast the research required for your roles in Who's That Girl? and Desperately Seeking Susan?"
"If you ever get nominated for an Academy Award, do you think we'll see the frogs and the waters turning to blood, or will it just skip straight to three days of darkness and the slaying of the first-born?"
"Do you feel Jodorowsky is the true surrealist heir to Buñuel, or do you think his later films like The Rainbow Thief betray an antiquated...just kidding, what's Lori Petty really like?"
Why does Guy walk two steps behind you?