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ELSTON GUNN's WEEKLY RECAP : League of Extraordinary Gentlemen News and Mas!
Hey folks, Harry here... When they stab your mouth repeatedly with a long needle filled with some sort of drug that put my mouth to sleep... That's cool. Even cooler is when they go to take the tooth out with a giant crowbar thing and you can hear CRACK... CRACK... POP..... CRACK while the Dentist in his spoofy jacket hums the tune to EIGHT IS ENOUGH... Bliss. However, let's hear it for SPACE MONKEY!!!! COMING SOON..... SPACE MONKEY!!!!! I'm all about the SPACE MONKEY!!!!!!
TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTERCASTING
* Michael Gambon joins Kevin Costner's OPEN RANGE for Disney. Shooting
begins in June in Calgary, Alberta, with Costner, Robert Duvall, Diego Luna
and Abraham Benrubi also starring.
* Anna Paquin joins Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rosario Dawson,
Barry Pepper and Brian Cox in THE 25th HOUR for director Spike Lee and
Disney.
* Shane West is in talks to star as Tom Sawyer in THE LEAGUE OF
EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN for director Stephen Norrington, 20th Century Fox
and producers Mark Gordon and Don Murphy. Production is scheduled to start
next month. James Robinson wrote the adaptation, based on the Alan Moore
comic book set in the Victorian era. Sean Connery toplines the pic.
* Jamie Foxx will star as legendary musician Ray Charles in Crusader
Entertainment's UNCHAIN MY HEART: THE RAY CHARLES STORY, with Mark Rydell in
negotiations to direct. Jimmy White wrote the script about Charles'
rags-to-riches story from his poor beginnings in Albany, Ga., to his rise
through the music industry while battling racism, drug use and problems in
love.
* Reese Witherspoon is in talks to star in Universal's FREEDOM WRITERS for
Richard LaGravenese, who is writing to direct for Jersey Films. Shooting is
slated to begin next year. The feature is based on THE FREEDOM WRITERS
DIARY: HOW A GROUP OF EXTRAORDINARY TEENS USED WRITING TO CHANGE THEMSELVES
AND THE WORLD AROUND THEM, a collection of diary entries by students at
Wilson High School in Long Beach, Calif., that was put together by their
23-year-old teacher, Erin Gruwell. Gruwell encouraged her students to
record their thoughts and feelings, which resulted in an odyssey against
intolerance and misunderstanding. The students dubbed themselves the
Freedom Writers in homage to the civil rights activists "The Freedom
Riders." Witherspoon will play Gruwell.
* Cathy Moriarty-Gentile will co-star with Robert De Niro in ANALYZE THAT,
the Warner Bros. sequel to ANALYZE THIS. She'll play a formidable Mob widow
who takes on her late husband's business and is not afraid to stand up to a
mobster with serious emotional problems. Harold Ramis directs.
* Jennifer Lopez will both star in and produce CARMEN, an update of Prosper
Merimee's 19th century short story, for Universal. Craig Pearce (MOULIN
ROUGE co-writer) is writing the script for a thorough reimagining and
modernizing of the classic tale about a Gypsy temptress who proves the
undoing of a Spanish soldier.
* Claire Danes has replaced newcomer Sophia Bush in TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF
THE MACHINES. Director Jonathan Mostow felt that Bush seemed a bit young
for the part.
* Natalie Portman is expected to play Sarah in COLD MOUNTAIN, based on the
novel by Charles Frazier, for director Anthony Minghella. Production starts
in September. Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger also star.
* Marisa Coughlan (SUPER TROOPERS) and Samuel Ball (THE LAST CASTLE) will
star in DRY CYCLE, based on a script by William Pruitt, about two strangers
who meet at a coin laundry and head out on a wild night that provides them
with the key to their lives.
* Ryan Phillippe, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin and Juliette Binoche will
co-star in PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE, based on Martin's play, for director
Fred Schepisi. Shooting begins next February. The comedy, set in a bar in
1904 Paris, centers on young fellows Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein, both
on the verge of greatness, argue about life, art, science and lust. Screwing
up the space/time continuum, young Elvis joins them and the three experience
the magic of forever changing the future.
* Madeleine Stowe and Mischa Barton will star in OCTANE, a supernatural
thriller for Four Horsemen Films that begins shooting June 3 on location in
Luxembourg. It centers on a woman who believes that the people who have
lured away her teen daughter are not what they seem. Norman Reedus, Bijou
Phillips, and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers also star for director Marcus Adams (LONG
TIME DEAD).
* Nathalie Baye will star in French suspense writer/director Claude
Chabrol's new pic LA FLEUR DU MAL (THE FLOWER OF EVIL), also starring Benoit
Magimel, Suzanne Flon, Bernard Le Coq and Melanie Doutey. It's about how a
woman's guilt at being acquitted for a crime she committed during World War
II haunts her descendants. Shooting begins May 27 and continues through July
15 in the Bordeaux and Cadillac regions of France. Caroline Eliacheff
co-wrote the script with Chabrol.
* John Cleese and Bille Brown will star in THE SHOOT for Jigsaw. The
comedy's storyline is being kept under wraps. Joshua Goldin and Bruce
Hancock wrote the script.
* Samuel L. Jackson will star in Columbia Pictures' S.W.A.T. with Clark
Johnson in talks to make his feature directorial debut on the project.
Oliver Stone, Dan Halsted, Chris Lee and Neal Moritz are producing the
project, which is rooted in the 1970s ABC series of the same name. David
Ayer (TRAINING DAY) has written the most recent draft of the script. The
project is about an arrested drug kingpin who is transported by a Los
Angeles Police Department SWAT team out of the city and into federal
custody. A curveball is thrown when the kingpin offers $100 million to
anyone who can free him.DIRECTOR/WRITER ATTACHMENTS
* DreamWorks has grabbed SPACE MONKEY from animation writer-director Ash
Brannon (TOY STORY 2), who will develop the project as a fully CG-animated
pic. It's about a team of monkeys involved in the NASA space program in the
1950s.
* Anand Tucker (HILARY AND JACKIE) will direct Steve Martin in Lakeshore's
SHOPGIRL, based on Martin's best-selling novella of the same name.
Production will begin this fall. Martin adapted the pic, which centers on
Mirabelle, a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and
accessories at Neiman Marcus, and the two men in her life: wealthy divorcee
Ray Porter and struggling musician Jeremy.
* Twentieth Century Fox won the bidding war to acquire the big-budget,
tentpole actioner THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, written by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, to
be directed by Roland Emmerich. Production is expected to begin in the fall
for a summer 2003 release. The project is described as a high-concept film
about the disastrous effects of global warming.
* De Line Pictures has optioned the romance script TULIP, an edgy romantic
comedy described as a TOOTSIE-esque story that involves mistaken identity.
Gina Wendkos and Jerry Stahl penned the screenplay.
* Radar Pictures has picked up the pitch TURN by Fernley Phillips. The deal
includes the remake rights for the Japanese film of the same name. It's
about a woman in a near-fatal accident who then finds herself repeating the
events of the previous 24 hours.
* David Fincher is in talks to shoot a remake of the 1975 supernatural
thriller THE REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD for Paramount. The original
centered on a young college professor who experiences flashbacks from a
previous incarnation and is mysteriously drawn to the town of his "wife"
from another time.
* Frank Marshall will direct the life story of the legendary gypsy guitarist
Django Reinhardt for Universal, Kennedy/Marshall and the Manheim Co.
Shooting is expected to begin in spring 2003 from a script by Janus Cercone
(LEAP OF FAITH). Reinhardt was a handsome gypsy guitar player who was badly
burned while saving his wife from a fire that started in the gypsy caravan.
Doctors wanted to amputate his left hand and right leg, but the gypsies
took him and nursed him back to health. He continued to play, until he was
captured during WWII by the Nazis, who had outlawed jazz in Europe and
wanted to get rid of all the gypsies. He later became the toast of the
Paris jazz set and realized his dream to play with Ellington at Carnegie
Hall.
* David Koepp (SPIDER-MAN, PANIC ROOM) will adapt and direct Stephen King's
TWO PAST MIDNIGHT: SECRET WINDOW, SECRET GARDEN.
* Dean Parisot (GALAXY QUEST) is directing the Summit Entertainment time
travel comedy LOCKED & UPRIGHT about two dingy flight attendants from the
swinging '70s who head into the Bermuda triangle aboard a passenger flight
and come out in the belly of a German bomber staging a raid over London.
Production begins this winter.
* Andrew Marlowe (AIR FORCE ONE) will rewrite Rick Waugh and Tag Mendillo's
script HAMMER DOWN for DreamWorks about a disgraced NASCAR driver who
becomes a wheel man in a heist in the belief it will get him back on the
track.
* Revolution Studios is developing a sequel to the upcoming Vin Diesel pic
XXX, with director Rob Cohen and screenwriter Rich Wilkes signed to reprise
their duties for Original Film. The project is being targeted for release in
summer or Christmas 2004.
* Music video and commercials director Marcus Nispel will helm the
reconceptualization of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE for New Line, Platinum
Dunes and Radar Pictures. Production will begin in July. The new pic will
focus more on the horror than the gore.
* Michael Schiffer (THE PEACEMAKER scribe) will write and direct MEMOIRS OF
A CADDY, based on the novel by David Noonan. It's a coming-of-age story
about two brothers who survive first love, forbidden love and shadows of war
during the summer of 1968.
* RKO Pictures will remake the 1946 film CRACK-UP and hired Chris Kletzien
to write the new version. The original followed an art curator who remembers
surviving a train wreck that never happened. As the story continues, he
finds himself becoming the unwitting victim of an artist.
* Universal Pictures and director Michael Mann are developing MIAMI VICE, a
feature based on the '80s cop series. Mann, who executive produced the
series, will write the script and produce with Forward Pass' Sandy Climan.
Series creator Anthony Yerkovich will executive produce. Mann will decide
whether or not to direct the project once the script is finished. His goal
is to create a contemporary crime detective story set in Miami, as opposed
to retreading the fashions and characters of the show.
* Jonathan Hales (STAR WARS: EPISODE II) has set up the pitch CRUSADER at
the Walt Disney Co., with Firm Films producing. The story is set in the
future on an alien planet and centers on two brothers who battle each other
for control of a kingdom.
* Gregory Dark will direct Millennium Films' horror-action feature LEGION,
written by Peter Schink. Production begins this fall on the story of a
desolate truck stop that serves as the last bastion of humanity after hell
spills over onto Earth.
* The Walt Disney Co. has purchased the script SNOW AND THE SEVEN, written
by Josh Harmon and Scott Elder. It's a SNOW WHITE-inspired action-adventure
set in late 19th century China where an aristocratic young Englishwoman who
flees her Hong Kong home after her life is threatened by her stepmother.
The woman flees to a Shaolin temple, where seven Shaolin monks are chosen to
keep her safe from the supernatural forces that hunt for her.
* Barry Levinson will direct Ben Stiller and Jack Black in the DreamWorks
comedy ENVY, about best friends whose relationship hits a roadblock when one
of them is consumed with jealous rage after the other becomes filthy rich
selling an invention. Shooting begins in July.MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION TIDBITS
* Columbia Pictures has set May 7, 2004 as the release date for SPIDER-MAN 2
with director Sam Raimi and stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst reteaming.
* Universal/Imagine Entertainment have made a deal with Alta Loma
Entertainment for archival rights to 48 years of material published in
Playboy magazine as source material for new features.
(HARRY NOTE: Universal, by all means you can put me in charge of going through all existing Playboys, interviewing Bunnies and trying to assemble this material into super cool films!!!)
* The Renaissance literary agency has optioned David Wiesner's bestselling
kids' book THE THREE PIGS to Disney Feature Animation.
* Director Curtis Hanson and his Deuce Three partner Carol Fenelon have
optioned a series of four books by George P. Pelecanos focusing on the
D.C.-based private detective Derek Strange, a 50ish African-American whose
cases usually involve those who live in the beltway and are set upon by drug
dealers and other criminal types. Pelecanos has already written two books
RIGHT AS RAIN and HELL TO PAY.
* Paramount Pictures and producers Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner will develop
a big screen adaptation of H.G. Wells' THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. The film is
scheduled for production in 2003.GUNN SHOTS
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* Last call for Entries for the Telluride IndieFest 2002. Check out
for more details.
* IVANS XTC. will open in NY & LA on June 7. The Artistic License Films
production stars Danny Huston and Peter Weller, was directed by Bernard Rose
(IMMORTAL BELOVED) and is based on "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo
Tolstoy.
Until next week...
Elston Gunn
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WILD ON - Brooke Burke is a world-weary (not woolly) diamond exporter with two months to live. She decides to spend her remaining days in exotic sun-drenched locales and party till she literally drops. Steve Kmetko and Jules Asner play the hard hitting journalists who cover her last days. TLC's TRADING SPACES crew is jetting to Jenin to film a tv-movie of their show. 3000 MORE MILES TO PARIS - Kevin Costner is Elvis and he has left the building - in the past! Hijinks ensue when Picasso, Einstein, and Elvis team up to rob three delicatessens in 1 day.
COFFEE, TEA, OR GAS? Two ditzy stewardesses (Lisa Kudro in a dual row) end up in a concentration camp in this "wacky" comedy. They can't offer much help but they are able to point out the exits. -
Mann wants to make a contemporary detective story set in Miami instead of bringing back the 80's clothes and characters? Then why not just recast Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys 2 as a white guy, change Will Smith's character's name to Tubbs, give them a boat, and call it good.
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A sequel to XXX AND a remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre... "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." Either way, shit.
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Isn't that "The Famous Jett Jackson" or something? Or was it "Kim Possible?"
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Doesn't need to be remade. Its a great little noir mystery. Check it out the next time it runs on TCM. Or better yet, how about putting out a DVD MGM?
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So many ignorant bastards who dont know the h.g. wells novel written so long ago will be quick too call it a rip on independence day. Expect to hear a lot of that talk from the teen community, who seem to think the world started when they were born( I know im one of them) . People might not get out to see it, but then again they paid to see both "american pie " and "american pie 2" and those were basically the same flick. And spidey 2 cant come soon enough, one villain though, learn from batman's mistakes. And a remake of "Chainsaw" ? fINALLY THEY GET IT: REMAKE THE SHITTY MOVIES, LEAVE "PSYCHO" AND "MR. DEEDS" THE FUCK ALONE!
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What's next, Will Smith is Muhammad Ali? Oops...
But seriously, folks, this is just plain wrong. Why not have Usher play Marvin Gaye? -
Gaspode, are you sure Jason Flemyng is playing Dr. Jekyll? I like the sound of that, almost as much as when they were talking about David Thewlis. I've heard the Invisible Man won't be Hawley Griffin due to someone else owning the rights to the Invisible Man (wouldn't it be public domain by now?), but that he might be played by Eddie Izzard. Finally, Monica Bellucci and Saffron Burrows are apparently running neck and neck for the role of Mina Murray. Whoever suggested Monica Bellucci needs to put down the crack pipe. Mina is English, the key feature of which is an ability speak English, and kind of plain and schoolmarmish, as I understand it (I've only read Dracula, never been able to get my hands on LoEG).
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Those of you who don't know what I'm talking about...well...bleh. PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE rocks, though, and it's gonna be cool, even with Phillipe, who I'm guessing is Picasso.
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May 13, 2002 9:59:15 PM CDT
I think Usher should be drug out into the street and shot . . .
by rain_dog
But to each his own. I am a huge, huge fan of Motown and Stax era soul. I don't like the slick, corporate nature of r&b these days, I don't like the fact that they all dress like Pap Doody or whatever the fuck that hack calls himself these days, and I don't like it the preening, posturing, so-called 'street' fronting done by middle class little mama's boys like Usher. Solomon Burke would eat them all for breakfast. Exceptions: Maxwell, Erykah Badu, D'Angelo, and some others I can't for the life of me think of right now.
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aw fuck, why are they still going with that 'Tom Sawyer' shit in LOEG? Those friggin' suits trying to second-guess Moore and change the damn thing? Dumbed down dumbing down bastards. I wish there was a good DC movie coming out...something like SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATER. But that Tom Sawyer crap? Cunts. I would have chosen Alan Rickman for Griffin, Richard E Grant for Jekyll and (don't laugh) either Helen Baxendale or Rachel Weiss as Mina. But then again, I don't know a thing about casting. Profanity, I can do, casting - no way.
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Well first off didn't Clark Johnson direct Drop Squad? He's gotten really good as a director (loved Boycott) and loved watching him on Homicide (facing down Mahoney!). Next, Marcus Fucking Nispel! Is he gonna have all those rules again?? Is he gonna demand they treat him like a Kubrick? If they make it around Austin I can't wait to hear the stories. And Mann why do it contemporary? That's a shame. But if it's a South Beach version of Heat...that's be cool. Is it still gonna be Crockett and Tubbs?
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May 13, 2002 10:52:09 PM CDT
miami vice will probably be a cool film, like heat, but if they&
by mansep
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I'm with Harry here... Space Monkey, Space Monkey, SPACE MONKEY!!! I hope they get Pericles from Planet of the Apes to do some voice-overs...
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They've hired that Marcus Nispel jack-off; he of the legendary 64-page manifesto of demands that got him booted off END OF DAYS (and devastatingly satirised by Steven Soderbergh). I am now watching the production of this train wreck with fervent interest.
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Harry is reviewing dentistry? And making it sound cool? Meanwhile Kevin Costner surrounds himself with other old men, hoping that some of Michael Gambon's charm rubs off and sticks on him. Look at the stellar cast on the new Spike joint - Cox, Hoffman AND Norton! J-Lo does Carmen - Evita anyone? Claude Chabrol is still working? Judging by the films he did in the 90's he has been dead for ages. Sam The Man in S.W.A.T thingy - I'd watch him in anything, even if it's another remake the H-wood is so fond of doing, based on 70 series. If you gotta play that game, remake Three's Company, with CGI Don Knotts. High concept, big budget, tent-pole: after all these words it was evident that they were talking about Roland Emmerich. He's the Chabrol of Megabudgets, only duller. Though I have a soft spot for The Patriot - Hell, it's Mel! Rememeber when Homer was Gibson's assistant? What's this: another Fincher project? Another remake? Where's RAMA? So Woody did Sweet & Lowdown and now Frank Marshall just HAS to jump the bandwagon with his Reinhardt biopic - POSER! ; ) RECONCEPTUALIZATION? so that's the new 10 dollar word for molestation. I mean do you really need to do this to The Mighty Texas Chainsaw Massacre- after all the lame sequels? And the new pic will focus more on "horror" than "gore". So, no blood? Very PC. And it's probably set in California too, instead of Texas with the cast lifted straight from Roswell and Higher Ground and Saved by the Bell and such. Reconceptualization my arse. MIAMI VICE The Motion Picture? Michael Mann, you cooky man. Give Elvis The Alligator the spotlight he has been missing since the 80's - the fucker's probably still alive in the sewers somewhere. And let Moby "reconceptualize" the theme song. The guy loves to score, you know. SNOW & 7? Here it is again, the shaolin Snow White - I guess harry wasn't "jerking us off" after all. Speaking of which, keep us posted on those Playboy features, hear? Curtis Hanson is already planning the recovery of his career after the bomb that the Eminem film will be. It's good to plan ahead...If THE LEAGUE OF EG does good, then maybe, maybe Cruise will do his WAR OF THE WORLDS like it should be: Late-Victorian, not contemporary. Or is it Edwardian, I never can tell the difference.
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Instead of Prof. Moriarty, one of the greatest arch villains in literature they've written a character named, get this, "The Fantom" I think they said they added Tom Sawyer to make it seem less British. So why the hell add Dorian Grey? This better not be another example of how a great opportunity gets pissed away by Hollywood.
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May 14, 2002 2:31:27 AM CDT
I'm developing The League of Extraordinary Talkbackers!
by regis travolta
And you'll all get to star in it! If you promise to be on your very best behavior that is.
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No, bring back prof. Moriarty, god-dammit!
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Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles? Jamie has the range and he can sing and play piano so it'll look natural for him. He reminds me of Robin Williams in that he's a natural comic, but can be dramatic if need be. Hopefully he'll never do something like "Father's Day."
Dont sleep on him. "25th Hour" is going to be remarkable I think and the fact its being handled by one of my all-time fav. directors is even better. You know if this movie were to win an Oscar for Best Pic., Tobey Maguire would get it since he's producing the film. That Steve Martin Picasso film sounds very interesting, but hopefully they dont make too much of an emphasis on this shit these men will do later in their careers, otherwise it'll feel very generic. Anything Roland Emmerich is directing I make sure I stay far, far away from. -
--the watchmen! i think that the only way it could really work is if they treat it like "the maxx" cartoon. animate the existing artwork and have the voice actors deliver the lines from the comic verbatim. it would be chilling to hear rorschach's conversation with his psychiatrist. oh, and they're going to ruin LOEG just like they ruined spiderman. ruined spiderman all the way to the bank, that is. i loved every action sequenc in spiderman but cringed at every line of dialogue. why do the suits think a comic book movie has to be stupid? stupid suits! no cookie! deep13 out. push the button, frank.
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-it's virtually gore-free--what an idiotic rationale--like saying you're going to remake Gone with the Wind, with more emphasis on Scarlett O'Hara's love life, and less on Mammy--hurhn???
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Jordi Molla (Blow). He should also take over the Zorro franchise from Banderas. Zorro is supposed to be an much more over the top character, not so flat as Banderas has played it.
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I am so damned excited about this project....even with the cumpulsive addition of the American Huck Finn character. I envision City Of Lost Children crossbred with Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Let's hope it comes off better than Wild Wild West - God, how could it be worse?
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What about Claire Danes in T3!!!!
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Mia culpa...Tom Sawyer is the American insertion into the League. Just needed to deflect the flames before they start! ;o)
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May 14, 2002 9:45:36 AM CDT
Einstein, Picasso and Elvis Presley are sitting in a bar...
by crazy fresh dj
yeah, we've all heard this joke before. The punchline is from the nun making some lewd yet unintentional double entndre at the expense of her virginal qualities.
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PICASSO is probably of the smartest plays I've ever read or seen performed. (And I'm not just saying that because I was in the cast of a local production.) In fact it's so smart, that I'm a little nervous about it being turned into a movie at all...
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I'm more interested in "Brass Monkey", the long lost Beastie Boys film in which the Brooklyn rappers try to cash in on the rap/comedy craze of the mid-eighties. Think "Disorderlies" meets "House Party" with a lot more drunkenness. BTW, what was with that dentist stuff in the intro? Did I miss something or Harry go all non-linear on us again? sk
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If Buzz and the Retinas think you're trespassing on their turf you'll spend the next week picking your teeth out of what's left of your knees.
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Yes, they're adding Tom Sawyer as a police detective to attract Americans. I've got no problem with the concept, as long as they do it with the proper amount of intelligence. They're adding Dorian Grey as a more age-appropriate love interest for Mina (well, he LOOKS more age appropriate anyway). Personally, I thought they should have cast Richard Chamberlain as Quartermain, Winona Ryder as Mina, and Kevin Bacon as the Invisible Man. But keep in mind that I'm a bit mental. sk
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May 14, 2002 1:36:17 PM CDT
Well, Since They Put Tom SAWYER In, I'll See It. That Tom, S
by buzz maverik
I reported on it here about a year ago. It starred Seann William Scott as Crocket and Taye Diggs as Tubbs. The premise began where the series ended. It was 1985 and Crockett and Tubbs raided the compound of the late Tony Montana (Al Pacino, in flashbacks). Montana's chief lieuntant (Steven Bauer), who was having an affair with Crockett's ex-wife (Melanie Griffith), zapped the boys with an energy beam that disentegrated them and sent them zapping between two Tesla coils for the last 17 years. Elvira Montana (Michelle Pffiefer) returns to her estate in 2002, having kicked drugs and become a high school teacher. She switches off the power in the lab and Crockett and Tubs return to corporeal form. They haven't aged and still have the same taste in clothes and music. Unfortunately, all their friends and foes have completely changed. Castillo (Edward James Olmos) now cleans up after riots and is going through a messy divorce with a psychologist (Lorraine Braccho) who used to be married to an armed robber (Harvey Kietel) and who now treats a mobster (James Gandolfini). Crockett's ex-wife has now remarried to Euro-trash (played by Antonio Banderas). As for their enemies, Lombard (Dennis Franz) has retired and is living with his daughter who is a U.S. marshall (Jennifer Lopez). Montoya (Bruce Willis) has reformed and become a dead superhero who battles terrorists every Christmas eve. Unable to find police work, Crockett becomes the straight man to a comedian (Cheech Marin) while Tubbs gets a job shilling and performing sexual favors for the Psychic Friends network (Miss Cleo). Eventually, Crockett and Tubbs must face evil dopplegangers of themselves from an alternate universe. The dopplegangers (Don Johnson and Phillip Michael Thomas) have aged and resent their younger selves.
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TAKEN FROM MY MOM'S SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS -- As many of you know, Ma Maverik kicked the bucket a few years back. The good news is that my brother Sioux Maverik was able to help my Dad beat the rap and he didn't even have to bring in the insanity plea. My brother Spook is now the chief suspect because he has the best motive: Thanksgiving 1995, Ma busted a hollow point into Spook's spine when he tasted the gravy and dropped the spoon back into the saucepan. We figure that Spook being in the C.I.A. and having all kinds of dirt on George Dubya, will never be prosecuted. Now, every Mother's Day, I get together with whichever of my brothers who are not incarcerated or haven't fake their own deaths to avoid incareration, and we channel Mom's spirit. When it was my turn, I naturally asked her about the movies in production "down there". Here's what Ma said. "We get the best pictures, since virtually the the people in the Hollywood end up here. Recent arrival Julia Phillips was producing VAMPIRE CABBIE starring Rodney Harvey as an undead taxi driver rescuing UFO abductees, but director Alfred Hitchcock had her bounced off the picture. She's now writing a tell-all called YOU'LL NEVER EAT LUNCH IN THIS FLAMING PIT AGAIN...The late Dawn Steel has threatened to return to Earth to torment Jerry Bruckheimer because she just produced a film here called BAD COMPANY, and now Bruckheimer's got a BAD COMPANY coming out. Everybody's pissed off because when they go into Blockbuster, they could get the Ellen Barkin, Lawrence Fishburne, Frank Langhella BAD COMPANY or even the Jeff Bridges BAD COMPANY...Don Simpson is still a bad boy, even by the standards here. His latest film is TOP GUN 2: GOOSE'S REVENGE. Anthony Edwards' character from TOP GUN and the character of Mel Gibson's partner from MAD MAX come back from the dead for a little payback...It may surprise you that family films are so big here. But how could they NOT be with Walt Disney making such fine pictures as THAT DARN SATAN...Finally, proving that nothing is sequel proof, Lina Wertmuller has announced pre-production on TRIUMPH OF THE WILL 2: WHAT WENT WRONG..." See you at the exorcism.
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Critics are split over the idea.
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I heard he was an extra in Gilliam's Fear and Loathing, but the last I heard Elvis was also in talks to play Dr. Curt Connors' alter ego in the upcoming Spider-Man sequel, but then I kinda lost track on this guys' whereabouts. Mofo, could you check with elvis' people and have them call to Harry's people etc. Inquiring minds need to know what the true heart and soul of Miami Vice is up to these days.
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