The DUDE reveals perspective on NSYNC/EPISODE 2 scoop! NEW STAR WARS EPISODE 2 publicity Pics!!!
Hey folks, Harry here... There are all sorts of things about the anti-NSYNC slamming of George Lucas that bothers me. Sure we ADULTS might not like NSYNC, but the kids do. You might be into more SOPHESTICATED MUSICAL STUFF and feel NSYNC is just terrible, but ya know... sometimes daughters, younger siblings, family... sometimes if you have the ability to just stick a smile on their faces and do something that makes them look at you like you're the coolest person in the world... You do it. I did tons of this type of stuff with my lil sis. Took her to the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Rock Concert, got backstage passes so she could... MEET THE TURTLES... I took her to all the Christian Slater movies... as a result it led me to both TRUE ROMANCE and UNTAMED HEART (ugh). I got Kevin Eastman to draw her favorite turtle (Donatello) at a comic convention and literally... I WAS A GOD in her eyes. Well George's daughter digs NSYNC.... McCallum knew this... They are in for a blink of an eye, but that day... George was a god to his kid. Now he's been a god to people like you and me since we were squirts... How many of you guys' parents endured mindless babble about Anakin and the Volcano and how yucky the kiss between Luke and Leia was in Empire once you learned they were related? Well George was doing that for his kid AND making the NSYNC guys' wish come true at the same time. Now, luckily my sister isn't NSYNC age, but the coolest man ever.... THE DUDE, Jeff Dowd the man that inspired THE BIG LEBOWSKI, wrote me a letter and dropped me a couple of pics... Here ya go maybe this'll put it in perspective!
Yes that is the Dude's daughters Keely 9 and Annabelle 6 with Lance from
N'SYNC on the set of his movie ON THE LINE because the kids wanted to meet
N'SYNC so we went to Toronto to do it--kinda of the converse of George
putting them in his movie or Harry flying to LOTR in New Zealand
Some of your letter writer's will have daughters some day and understand what
the priorities are and understand that George Lucas seems to be handling it
in a great way
The payoff for me was this. WHen both Keely and Annabelle were little babies
I would rock them back to sleep to Al Green's LET'S STAY TOGETHER--often lip
syncing it. For a while they thought I was AL green until they discovered I
couldn't even sing Mary Had A little Lamb in key and busted me.
My friend Eric Bross put Keely and Annabelle in the last scene of the movie
dancing with AL green to LET'S STAY TOGETHER
Dad's and daughters
Dude
Harry here... with all this NSYNC bs, it can be destracting from why STAR WARS is cool. The mythology is fun, the future tech is cool, Natalie Portman is hot, everything Yoda says rules, Christopher Lee is a god, Temeura Morrison is a super badass, John Williams kicks ass, swooping ships rule, Ewan kicks ass... These are things that are simply true. I love STAR WARS, the one sheet over my bed is the original Style D one sheet. I have an extended collection of Star Wars autographs and all my original figures. Just because I happen to ALSO love LORD OF THE RINGS doesn't mean I now hate STAR WARS. I think it is absolutely awesome that I have a new Star Wars movie and the second LOTR flick coming this next year. Now, we just got sent a ton of pics that are up on http://starwars.gamigo.de/member/tai-zec/sidious
Hey folks, Harry here. The firebomb of news regarding N'SYNC being confirmed for a split second cameo in ATTACK OF THE CLONES seems to have been a real WAGES OF FEAR style bump in the road for many AICN Star Wars lovers.
My phone has been glued to my ear as TOO MANY people have been calling me protesting this to the 4 corners of the universe. Then there are the people wanting me to be the voice of reason here.
First off there's the NSYNC are Star Wars fans, they wanted to be a tiny little part of STAR WARS. Something insignificant to anyone, but themselves. They wanted a cameo. Lucas allegedly dressed them in robes, put them off the background and had them killed. If it plays as Lucasfilm is saying (and remember they once claimed that Ewan MacGregor wasn't going to be in these films and that Lucas had never heard of him) then the scene will not mean anything to anyone, but the members of that boy band. For them, it might mean all the world. Now you and I... we might not care what it means to them, but they had a way of getting that desire to George and they made their dream come true. Having been lucky enough to make a number of my own dreams come true... I can't begrudge them this.
Hell, if I had flown myself to New Zealand one week earlier than I had, I could have been one of the Dwarf Lords in deep make-up and that would have been one of the greatest coolest things in the history of my life. This wasn't something that Peter told me, but Richard Taylor and the WETA guys. Now just imagine how much FELLOWSHIP OF THE RINGS would have sucked had the bloated fat sellout piece of shit had been one of those dwarf lords.... unrecognizable to anyone (unless the bastard told you) and on screen for a quarter second. I would have been on screen for a period of time so short that even with the immense lack of talent I obviously have... I technically couldn't possibly destroy the whole film, but ultimately.... I was handed a clacker and was on film operating the little clack board and saying the take numbers and stuff and that was as cool as I could ever imagine it being. And my shakingly terrified performance as a clacker guy, sent Peter into a fit of giggles...
This is very much a non-issue, unless there's more to the story than we're hearing. With them not having dialogue, not having a close-up and not being featured, this means it won't be an embarrasing cameo like Glen Close's terrible pirate in HOOK... which was just a starfucking endeavor. This is something that George could do to make his daughter happy. It is very much like in BLADE 2 when you see the KRISPY KREME box of donuts... that makes Robogeek very happy. That's why that is there. It is something insignificant to the vast majority, that the filmmaker included for the delight of the fewest without detracting from the whole.
"BUT THEY'RE NSYNC!!!!"
Look, I understand.... I would be going apeshit nuts over this if they had a real part. It ticks me off knowing that the boy band will be Jedi... it would be like if they dressed up the BEATLES in space suits and had them be the moon surveyors in 2001... it would be a distraction that you wouldn't need or want. But folks... there are other things I'm concerned about...
Will Natalie Portman and Hayden Christiansen sleepwalk through their romance in the film delivering it to be stiff and utterly uninvolving?
Will Boba Baby drive me insane?
Will Yoda fighting look utterly retarded?
Has Jar Jar been pushed enough into the background to be rendered less annoying?
Will Jimmy Smits not annoy me?
Will the brilliant young actress Ayesha Dharker from the fantastic movie THE TERRORIST have a part of any significance and will she blossom in the role?
Will the polarizing between Ob1 and Anakin feel like a 90210 buddy breakup thing or will it feel real?
Is Anakin going to whine for the whole film?
Will Digital Yoda not look right given his appearance as a puppet in the other film and will it lead to a digital Yoda replacing him in Empire, Jedi and Phantom?
Will this Jango Fett character just be a bang bang character or will he be developed on screen?
Will the 'darker' elements feel organic or calculated?
Will more of the acting feel connected with the actors on screen? Has George learned that placing actors on green screen solely and not having someone to act with can lead to very stiff acting?
One of my chief worries about George is his insistence to place cute little things all over the place. Turning STAR WARS into a Where's WALDO episode... That's the concerning thing about putting NSYNC in here... that it isn't something that serves the story necessarily... I mean what lame Jedi teacher taught this little Boy Band group of Jedi that could be wiped out so instantly? Couldn't they 'feel' a disturbance and get out of the way? But no matter... it is allegedly a second of screen time. That I can handle. It is all the other questions and doubts that I'm concerned about.
Ultimately I just want to have fun with these films. At this point I know that George is going to do whatever makes George happy, he doesn't really care too much about his original audiences' concerns... though it could be argued that the creation of this Jango Fett character is a direct bow to those fans... that the lessening of JarJar was that... Who knows?
At least NSYNC isn't singing at the cantina on Coruscant and has an MTV tie in video... yet....
