"The Blind Side's" Michael Oher Gets Blindsided! And It Wasn't By Sandra Bullock! UPDATED: The Tuohys' Lawyer Responds!
Remember the 2009 movie "The Blind Side?" You know, the one with the poster featuring an Ozempic-using mom with legs like carrot sticks who adopted a Jolly Green Giant, but in Black. Yes, that one! It was a true story, we were told, and made many a moviegoer reach for their eyehole-dripping hankies. It also earned Sandra Bullock a Best Actress Oscar for a performance which I will charitably call monotone. Or flat? Lifeless? AnywaytheOscarsJustWantedToGiveSandySomeGold, the white-savior classique of the screen has long since faded from memory (or at least mine). But not for Michael Oher, the real-life, adopted Black youth who went on to become a successful pro football player. Only don't say "adopted." Why can't you say adopted? Oh, my chickens, pull up a seat. As initially reported in yesterday's Nightcap, Michael only recently found out that Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy, the nicey-nice, good Christian white couple who took him in and adopted him, didn'...