Saturday, August 8, 2009

How Much Is Woody Allen's Good Name Worth? American Apparel Replies, "What Good Name?"

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"What is this," Woody Allen asks in Love and Death after receiving a couple of hard pats to the cheek, "Slap Boris Day?"...

Werner Herzog Remembers the Good Old Days in Peru, the Bad New Days in New Orleans

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Fitzcarraldo, the 1982 epic that Werner Herzog shot in the jungles of Peru, using a team of locals to pull a 320-ton steamboat up a mountain...

Mel Gibson Plans to Co-Star with Wife in Lavishly Budgeted Remake of "Let's Make a Deal"

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The news that Robyn Gibson, Mel Gibson's wife of 28 years, filed for divorce last week has inspired a certain amount of snickery coverag...

Fat Actor Watch at New York Times: Paper of Record Alleges That When Russell Crowe Sits Around the House, He Really Sits Around the House

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Always looking for a fresh angle on the really important movie news of the day, Michael Cieply uses his perch at Thew New York Times to ask...

Jackie Chan Puts His Foot In It

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I don't guess it's completely surprising that Jackie Chan could get himself in trouble by saying something that pissed people off, b...
Monday, July 20, 2009

The Screengrab Library of Unproduced Screenplays: John Belushi's "Noble Rot"

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It was twenty-seven years ago last month that John Belushi died, at the age of 33. At the time, Belushi's movie career was approaching a...

John Waters Talks of Teabagging

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Last week, various good citizens of these United States participated in a mass public protest that, because of what as near as we can de...