A half-baked "Rudy" for the YouTube age

After a heated battle between numerous studios, Sony Pictures has signed a deal with the autistic high school basketball phenom Jason McElwain to make a movie based on his amazing run of six three-pointers when his coach moved him from manager to player in the last few minutes of the last game of his senior year. Of course, most of us know the story from YouTube, where the original CBS News report became a phenom, until the network forced it down (now CNN’s report