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Elston Gunn's WEEKLY RECAP
Father Geek here with ol'Elston and all the news from last week out in Hollywood... Yep, all those little and not so little stories that just may have breezed by you during the last hectic work-week are recapped here in a single column for your peace-of-mind, or is that, piece-of-mind, or mine. Oh well, whatever, here's Elston Gunn's regular weekly edition of...
THE WEEKLY RECAP...
TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
CASTING
TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
CASTING
* Don Cheadle and Naomie Harris (28 DAYS LATER) will join Pierce Brosnan,
Salma Hayek and Woody Harrelson in AFTER THE SUNSET for director Brett
Ratner and New Line Cinema.
* Mark Ruffalo is in talks to replace Val Kilmer in Michael Mann's
COLLATERAL opposite Tom Cruise for DreamWorks Pictures. Jamie Foxx, Jada
Pinkett Smith, Dennis Farina and Irma Hall round out the cast.
* Michael Chiklis is set to star in the indie MAKE SOMEONE HAPPY for
director Raymond De Felitta and Echo Lake Prods. The dramedy is set in the
blue-collar community of City Island, N.Y., and centers on a dysfunctional,
working-class family whose lives are turned upside down by the surprise
arrival of the father's son from a previous relationship. De Felitta also
scripted.
* Steve Martin is in talks to play Inspector Jacques Clouseau in MGM's BIRTH
OF THE PINK PANTHER. Len Blum wrote the script.
* Frances O'Connor will star opposite Matthew Perry and his father John
Bennett Perry in Franchise Pictures' THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM for director
William Dear. T.J. Lynch wrote the project set during the Vietnam War and
centering on a recently widowed rancher who falls for a beautiful hippie,
who has been hired by his son to take care of him and his ranch.
* Bridgette Wilson-Sampras has joined the cast of SHOPGIRL, the Hyde Park
Entertainment comedy that stars Steve Martin, Claire Danes and Jason
Schwartzman. Anand Tucker directs.
* Shane West will star as Darby Crash, leader of punk band the Germs, in the
biopic WHAT WE DO IS SECRET. Bijou Philips will also star in the film,
written and to be directed by Rodger Grossman.
* Dwayne Johnson (aka the Rock) will play a safecracker who dies and is
reincarnated as a series of different animals, moving his way up the food
chain in INSTANT KARMA, written by Terry Rossio and Ted Elliott, for New
Line and Digital Domain. Pierce Brosnan, Mira Sorvino, David Alan Grier and
Eartha Kitt also star in the live-action elements, while Burt Reynolds, Dom
DeLuise, Gene Wilder and the comedy troupe Broken Lizard provide voices of
the animals. Paul Hernandez will make his feature writing and directing bow
on the pic.
* Gary Sinise, Alfre Woodard, Linus Roache and Anthony Edwards have joined
the cast of Revolution's THE FORGOTTEN, starring Julianne Moore and Dominic
West, for director Joseph Ruben.
* Kelly Hu (X2) joins the cast of UNDERCLASSMAN for director Marcos Siega,
Miramax and Tapestry Films.
* Josh Lucas will star in STEALTH for director Rob Cohen, Phoenix Pictures
and Columbia Pictures. The actioner is set in the naval Air Force in the
near future and tells the story of an artificial intelligence pilot who is
brought aboard to learn combat skills from human pilots. When the A.I. pilot
begins to have ideas of his own, complications ensue.
* Eric Etebari (WITCHBLADE) joins the cast of CELLULAR, starring Kim
Basinger and William H. Macy. David Ellis directs.
* Joan Chen will star in SAVING FACE for writer/director Alice Wu and
Overbrook Entertainment about a Chinese-American surgeon in her late 20s who
finds her life turned upside down when her single mother arrives on her
doorstep pregnant. Subsequently, she must take her mother in and play
matchmaker in an attempt to find a husband so the mother can return
unashamed to her Chinese friends and family.
* Marla Sokoloff, Jennifer Tilly and Dave Thomas will star in DELUXE COMBO
PLATTER, an indie romantic comedy for director/cinematographer Vic Sarin.
Written by Brigitte Talevski, the story centers on a small-town waitress who
pines for the town's most eligible bachelor. Just when she finally decides
to throw caution to the wind and pursue her man, a successful, beautiful,
big-city corporate executive blows into town, throwing the entire male
population into a tizzy.
* Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is in talks to play a bodyguard-singer who
develops an uneasy alliance with John Travolta's Chili Palmer in BE COOL for
director F. Gary Gray and MGM.
* Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Duvall are set to star in BIT
PLAYERS for Universal Pictures with Scott Rosenberg and Michael Lewis
writing the script. Story is about a trio of men whose small town in the
West is destroyed by a Wall Street crook who has swindled townsfolk out of
their pensions. Hoffman is the duped owner of the bank that leaves the town
high and dry. Hackman and Duvall will play two of those men who band with
Hoffman and head to New York, where they hatch a scheme to get even.
* Kevin James is attached to star in the Revolution Studios project FAN
INTERFERENCE, a comic pitch inspired by a Chicago Cubs fan attempted to
catch a foul ball, costing the Cubs a key out and triggering a Florida
Marlins rally that led to a Cubs loss in Game 6 of the National League
Championship Series.
* Jared Padalecki ("Gilmore Girls") has been set for a trio of projects: THE
FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX, LIVING THE LIVE and MOONLIGHT DRIVE.
* Christian Slater, Estella Warren and Michael Clarke Duncan will star in
PURSUED, a thriller written by producer Peter Lenkov. Kristoffer Tabori will
direct the pic.
* Anne Hathaway and Bijou Phillips will star in HAVOC for director Barbara
Kopple. Also joining the cast are Laura San Giacomo, Michael Biehn, Mike
Vogel, Joseph Gordon Levitt and Matt O'Leary. Pic, written by Stephen Gaghan
(TRAFFIC), is based upon Jessica Kaplan's original screenplay THE POWERS
THAT BE about teens clashing with the real world of urban Latino gang
culture. Music-driven tale follows Allison and Emily on their journey from
the safety of their affluent suburban homes into East L.A., where they learn
that even innocent actions can have the most grave and critical
consequences.
DIRECTOR/WRITER ATTACHMENTS
* Mark Bomback (upcoming GODSEND) will write 20th Century Fox's DIE HARD 4,
starring Bruce Willis, for Cheyenne Enterprises. Bomback is also developing
an adaptation of Richard Yates' novel DISTURBING THE PEACE.
* Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up a pitch from writer Sean Sorensen
about the Principality of Sealand, which bills itself as the smallest
country in the world for Industry Entertainment to produce. Set in the late
1960s, pic follows former British Maj. Roy Bates, who moved his family to an
abandoned World War II anti-aircraft platform off the coast of England and
declared it his own sovereign nation on Sept. 2, 1967.
* Susannah Grant (ERIN BROCKOVICH) will write the big screen in a
live-action/CGI adaptation of E.B. White's CHARLOTTE'S WEB for Paramount.
* Jonas Akerlund (SPUN) will direct the thriller BIRDMAN, based on the novel
by Mo Hayder.
* Deborah Goncalves will script a dark comedy for director Francis Lawrence
(upcoming CONSTANTINE) and producer Caleb Dewart.
* Paramount and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura have optioned the Gregg
Hurwitz novel THE KILL CLAUSE and set the author to write the script. It's
about a U.S. marshal and former special forces operative whose life is
shattered when his 7-year-old daughter is brutally murdered. Enraged when
the killer walks free, he is drafted to become an enforcer in an organized
vigilante campaign, until the initial bloodlust gives way to questions about
playing god and suspicions that his new colleagues don't have pure motives.
* Sacha Gervasi will write THE HYPNOTIST with Jim Carrey attached to star
for Landscape Entertainment and Revolution Studios. It's about a
world-renowned hypnotist who exhibits a completely different personality
when not onstage. When he loses his powers, he has to woo a girl and fall in
love with her in order to get them back.
* Dennis Lee will direct New Line's SLAY THE BULLY about a boy who transfers
to a new junior high school and must face the school bully after being
mistakenly credited with beating him up. Catch 23/Alter Ego is producing
with Promark Entertainment.
* Dreyfuss/James Prods. has pacted with writer-director Ashvin Kumar to turn
his short film ROAD TO LADAKH into a feature.
* Terry Loane will direct JONJO MICKEYBO, starring Julie Walters and Ciaran
Hinds, from his own script for WT2. , starring Julie Walters and Ciaran
Hinds. It's about two boys from each side of the sectarian divide in 1970s
Belfast, Northern Ireland. They flee to Australia to escape the prejudices
of their homeland and to live out their fantasy of emulating their heroes,
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It's adapted by Loane from Owen
McCafferty's play. Gina McKee, Adrian Dunbar and Susan Lynch co-star.
* Jeff Vintar (I, ROBOT) will write sci-fi adaptations of Y: THE LAST MAN
for New Line and Isaac Asimov's FOUNDATION trilogy for Fox. Shekhar Kapur is
attached to direct the latter.
* Disney picked up a pitch from newcomer Yaphet Smith about the Harlem
Little League for Malcolm Lee (UNDERCOVER BROHER) to direct and Spike Lee's
40 Acres and a Mule to produce.
* Neil Jordan is in talks to rewrite and direct ME AND MY MONSTER for
Columbia Pictures. It's about a young boy who has a friendship with an
extraordinary creature that changes the course of his life as he becomes an
adult.
* Director Roland Emmerich and producer Mark Gordon are teaming again on TUT
for Columbia Pictures. Sean O'Keefe and Will Staples will pen the screenplay
about the young pharaoh Tutankhamen and his attempt to reclaim his throne
and save his country after the death of his father.
* Vadim Perelman (THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG) is in final talks to direct THE
TALISMAN, based on the 1984 fantasy novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub,
for Universal/DreamWorks. It centers on 12-year-old Jack Sawyer, who goes on
a quest in the living world and a parallel world known as the Territories to
acquire a talisman that will save the life of his dying mother and the queen
of the Territories. Ehren Kruger (THE RING) adapted the screenplay.
* Paramount has picked up an untitled comedy based on an idea by producer
Robert Kosberg with Stephen Mazur set to write the screenplay for
Carsey-Werner-Mandabach Films to produce. The project is described as a
wedding comedy.
* Marco Schnabel is in final talks to direct Will Ferrell's untitled soccer
comedy, written by Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick (SPACE JAM). Ferrell
plays the coach of his young son's soccer team who is forced to go up
against his highly competitive father, who has a new son on the opposing
team.
* Donald Martin will write the fact-based drama RIKERS for Columbia Pictures
and Winkler Films. It's about a high school program for teenagers who are
passing through Rikers Island, a holding prison in New York. The school was
set up after the state was sued for not supplying educational opportunities
for inmates.
* Gore Verbinski is set to direct PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 2 for Disney and
producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Terry Rossio and Ted Elliott are penning the
sequel with Johnny Depp also reprising his starring role.
* Scot Armstrong (OLD SCHOOL) is writing THE SEVEN DAY ITCH, a romantic
comedy inspired by THE HEARTBREAK KID, for Radar Pictures. It's about a man
who hastily weds a local girl who he thinks is perfect until he falls in
love with another girl during the honeymoon.
* Nicholas Meyer (THE HUMAN STAIN) will pen the big-screen adaptation of
Michel Faber's novel THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE for director Curtis
Hanson and producer Laura Ziskin.
* Marcus Nispel (THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE) is in talks to direct THE
EXPENDABLES for Warner Bros. Pictures. It's inspired by a real-life program
at California's Chino prison in which convicts are taught diving skills that
can provide them with lucrative salvage and ship-repair careers following
their parole.
* New Line purchased the spec script WHAT A MAN'S GOTTA DO, a romantic
comedy penned by London-based scribes Dudi Appleton and Jim Keeble. It's
about a metrosexual guy, overly in touch with his feminine side, who learns
to be a real man from an older Brooklyn car mechanic to win the girl he
loves.
* Michael Addis' script CAR THIEF will be produced by Checkmate
Entertainment, founded by Mario Lopez and Lou E. Perez. It's about a thief
who carjacks a film executive, stealing a prized screenplay as well as the
victim's identity.
* Robin Schiff and Ken Levine sold their spec script BETWEEN THE COVERS to
MGM for Arthur Sarkissian to produce. The romantic comedy centers on a
free-spirited woman who writes a book espousing freedom and independence and
who winds up having an affair with a married writer considered America's
foremost expert on marital problems.
* 20th Century Fox picked up the pitch TEST DRIVE from writing team Derek
Guiley and David Schneiderman for Icon Prods. to produce. The project
centers on a boring accountant who goes to test-drive a new sports car.
Things go awry during the drive when the salesman takes him on the ride of
his life and a wild goose chase ensues.
* Robert Redford will direct romantic thriller THE COMPANY YOU KEEP for Fox
Searchlight, based on Neil Gordon's third novel of the same name. Lem Dobbs
(THE SCORE, THE LIMEY) will adapt the book. It's the story of a single dad
whose upper-middle class existence as an attorney in upstate New York is
disrupted when his old life as a militant in the Weather Underground returns
to haunt him. Accused of being the triggerman at a deadly bank robbery, he
is forced to go on the lam to find an old flame -- a woman who can prove his
innocence.
* Joe Carnahan will direct VOID, a gritty crime drama that has just been set
at Universal by producer Kevin Misher. Script will be penned by Guillermo
Arriaga (21 GRAMS). The contemporary drama centers on a female Chicago
homicide cop who arrives at a prison to provide transfer for a dangerous
criminal she helped put behind bars. Events get in the way of a clean
transfer.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION TIDBITS
* Fox 2000 has optioned the feature film rights to Christopher Paolini's
ERAGON about a boy named Eragon who finds a polished blue stone in the
forest. At first, he thinks it's a lucky discovery, something that will
bring meat to his poor family for the winter. Instead it brings a dragon
hatchling, and Eragon is soon thrust into a world of magic and power.
* New Line is developing a feature based on the life of Jack Greenberg, a
young lawyer who became the only white member of the NAACP Legal Defense
Fund and fought alongside Thurgood Marshall to end segregation. New Line
acquired a treatment based on Greenberg's book CRUSADERS IN THE COURTS.
* Nicolas Cage and his Saturn Film have teamed with the recently launched
production outfit Haynes/Geadelmann Pictures to collaborate on series of
projects, including a feature film based on the life of boxer-turned-prison
coach Billy Roth, with Cage starring as the former prize fighter.
* Miramax Films has collared a deal to acquire exclusive film rights to
former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik's life story, based on the
one-time top cop's autobiography, THE LOST SON: A LIFE IN PURSUIT OF
JUSTICE.
* Harry Jay Knowles will produce GHOST TOWN, an original comedy he pitched to
Revolution Studios.
* Mel Gibson's controversial film about the last hours in the life of Jesus
Christ is now known as THE PASSION OF CHRIST due to Miramax having
registered title THE PASSION for its long-developed adaptation of Jeanette
Winterson's novel by that name.
* Warner Bros. optioned the feature film rights to Mariane Pearl's memoir A
MIGHTY HEART: THE BRAVE LIFE AND DEATH OF MY HUSBAND DANNY PEARL for Plan B
Prods. to produce. The book is her heart wrenching account of the
disappearance and murder in Pakistan of her husband, the South Asia bureau
chief of the Wall Street Journal.
* Negotiations for Rob Marshall (CHICAGO) to direct MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA have
stalled over whether Miramax, which has an option on Marshall, will come
aboard as a co-producer on the pic.
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Wow...I like geese.
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It's just wrong. Try "The Golden King", or something...just not "Tut", for God's sake.
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boy...looks like 2004 is gonna be crappy,save for spiderman2
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A film about metrosexuals already? GAG. Let's all jump on the hipster culture bandwagon for cheap laughs! What's next? Queer Eye: The Movie starring Hulk Hogan as the make over candidate.
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so i don't have to read about all the stupid ass movies being made that nobody will ever see. i like the idea about the rock being reincarnated from animal to animal. is it too soon to whisper 'oscar'?
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nbchg
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What's a metrosexual guy? I thought I knew all the sexual variations around. Is it a guy who shags cities?
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OK...let's see. The Rock is staring in Instant Karma, which goes to support my post from a couple weeks ago about the recent influx of too man talking animal movies. Does it seem to any one else that every other movie any more seems to be a talking animal movie? I mean just because we have the technology to make it happen, doesn't mean we need to use it CONSTANTLY. Then we have Hackman, Hoffman, and Duval in the same movie...all I have to say about that is...ROCK! That's great! I love all three of those guys, and I can't wait to see them share the screen together. And finally...Do we really need a movie about the guy from Cubs game? Not every news story out there deserves a movie made about it. What's next? A gritty crime drama about jay walking or littering? Thank you for your time.
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www.nme.com
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Jack Elam has also passed away. But I've yet to see a story posted here on AICN yet. Don't tell me it's going to be another criminal celebrity obituary snub like it was with Gordon Jump. 2003...worst year for celebrities EVER. :( Rest in peace Mr. Elam.
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Wow a biopic about me at last!
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Oct 22, 2003 7:36:28 AM CDT
Wait, there are two Steve Martin projects in the recap...
by margot_tenenbaum
...but he's not involved in 'TUT'? Weird. I hope there's a hip-hop version of Martin's King Tut song over the end credits of TUT.
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Which is a crime, because I am a certified Carnahanaholic. "Events get in the way of a clean transfer." I hope this isn't the case for the DVD, because I want to have a companion for my truly awesome disc of the genius of NARC.
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Oct 22, 2003 8:18:37 AM CDT
Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman AND Robert Duvall in one and the sa
by sheeld
Holy cow what a line up. Too bad the pitch of Bit Players reads like another of those 'con/scheme'-films.. Give those guys some high quality drama please! P.T. Anderson should write something for Dustin, that would be amazing. About 'TUT'.. I laughed out loud when I read that title. Absolutely aweful; only Emmerich could come up with that. Change it, now. The Sun King is a good suggestion. And The Hypnotist as Jimbo's new vehicle.. If it's an all-out comedy it sounds right up his alley, but that romantic angle is so tired. P.T.A., write something for Carrey too please!
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They're finally going to make The Talisman? Awesome! The Rock's movie sounds good--I'm glad Broken Lizard is getting more movie work. The only negative... They're making a movie of the Cubs' game from, what, a week ago? Isn't it a little soon? I'm currently working on a screenplay about a man who has an emotional awakening while reading a talkback about a man making a movie about a man catching a ball at a Cubs game. Stop the madness people!
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has been on WordPlay for a while; I'm glad it's getting off the ground at last cause it sounds like a genuinely good idea.
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I read this in some magazine.
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From what I understand, the New York Times coined this phrase a few months ago to describe the type of guy who, while straight, acts kinda gay. So a straight guy who gets manicures and pedicures, spends hours in the bathroom every morning getting his hair right, keeps up on fashion and home decorating...he's a metrosexual. I think they use "metro" because it's more of a city thing. Unfortunately, living in New York City, I have to see this kind of thing all the time - the removal of testosterone from our society.
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Oct 22, 2003 10:06:46 AM CDT
The Talisman is too complex to work as a two-hour movie.
by osmosis jones
Do a miniseries version and get it all in there.
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Who the hell is Harry Jay Knowles?
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Third cousin twice removed of Homer Jay Simpson...geez, don't you guys read your Star Magazine?!
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I know AICN isn't a music site, but he did compose the music to Good Will Hunting, and he was such a talent. I'm just gutted to hear of his death. His music was so beautiful. I just can't make sense of this.
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I hear you loud and clear, Lizzybeth. I saw him live this past summer at Field Day. He was so, so drunk but played beautifully, like he sobered up just for the music. The crowd just stood in the pouring rain and stared, mesmerized. I'll never forget his Oscar performance. Ballsiest musical number ever performed on that show. He just walked out with a stool and an acoustic guitar, no gaudy bullshit light show, no dancers. I was floored. NME just made the announcement: http://www.nme.com/news/106511.htm but expect an official word later today. The details are gruesome. Just so sad . . .
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I can't picture Steve Martin as Clouseau but i guess it's better than the previous choice of Chris Tucker. Might as well just bring back Ted Wass or better yet just quit stomping on Peter Seller's grave! Hackman, Hoffman, Duvall RULES!!! I'm such a big fan of the 'Die Hard' movies that I'm actually looking forward with much anxiety for four. I'm sure I'll be disappointed.
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Y: The Last Man both as a comic and as a movie rips off an old Sliders episode. The Kill Clause appears to be a shot for shot remake of a couple of different films. Slay the Bully is 3 0'Clock High. And these are not rip-offs in the sense that "there are a limited number of dramatic situations" either. Hey, can I pitch a remake of Star Wars changing two letters in each character's name? I don't have a script yet, just a treatment. But as soon as I hit the Find and Replace key to change "Luke" into "Duko" I will be done. Any takers?
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Oct 22, 2003 12:47:15 PM CDT
Others have been said to be filling Peter Seller's Pink Panter s
by pardon_my_zinger
At the time of his death, another Pink Panther movie, "Romance of the Pink Panther" was in development. When Sellers died, it was suggested that the film (which, ironically, Sellers WROTE) would go on, with Dudley Moore filling the roll. Obviously, never happened. Most people reading this probably know that within the past few years, it was suggested that Kevin Spacey was destined to take over the roll of Inspector Clousea.
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Apparently they are filming "The Company You Keep" by taking the old "Susan Forrest" episode of Law and Order and taping little Robert Redford heads in place of Sam Waterston on each frame.
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Oct 22, 2003 1:13:46 PM CDT
I think they should call it Karma Police with Hulk Hogan as Thom
by lord shatner
"But I'm a creep, brother"
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Freddie Prinze, Jr will star in Get a Life, about a Cubs fan who realizes his team will always suck and becomes a Yankee fan instead
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huh?
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I didn't get that implication in the article.
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Since only Jews were exicuted regularly at the time for opposing the Roman controlled Middle East. Why would the Jews (as a people) want to kill another Jew at odds with a Roman puppet governent. Imagin if palistinians wanted to kill one of their own cause the isreal's did not like them. It seems like Christians who think the jews killed Jesus are just anti-semetic and probly hate any non Christian as well...and why am I writing this???
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The Jews DID kill Jesus. BUT that doesn't matter because THAT WAS HIS PURPOSE, HE WAS MEANT TO DIE SO THAT WE MAY LIVE. THAT WAS THE WHOLE POINT. I honestly am a little sketchy about the details but since most bible belters DO seem take whole book literally word for word it always seems silly to me that some idiot anti-semites use that rationale to hate the Jews since Jesus' whole purpose was to sacrifice himself for the sins of the world. It really doesn't matter who killed him. If the creeps who spew that "Kill All Kikes" crap were real Christians they'd have the hearts to forgive whoever killed Jesus because that was his whole point in the 1st place. But you know all this. Peace.
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What has happened to his career? He used to be one of the most interesting actors out there. I wish he would stop shooting himself in the foot and cooperate. The Saint could have made a very fun franchise for him.
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Oct 22, 2003 7:58:11 PM CDT
Since somebody mentioned Jack Elam, please check out SUPPORT YOU
by frankdrebin
It's about a pacifist sherif who uses his brains to outsmart the bad guys--no, wait, I forgot what sells today--it's about a bloodthirsty sheriff out for revenge!
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Fred Berry just passed away tonight, man. Harry, you KNOW I better see something on here paying tribute tomorrow. That red beret....man, I am going as Rerun for Halloween this year just to pay homage.
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Oct 22, 2003 10:30:06 PM CDT
E! says that Jim Carrey's SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN remake is a com
by frankdrebin
Man, MGM is doing everthing it can to destroy my fond memories of the PINK PANTHER films. They made REVENGE OF THE PINK PANTHER after Peter Sellers died using outtakes from the other films. Then they made CURSE OF THE PINK PANTHER with a guy in a trenchcoat pretending to be Peter Sellers. And then they made SON OF THE PINK PANTHER without any Peter Sellers connection at all. And there was also an INSPECTOR CLOUSEAU movie with Alan Arkin that nobody remembers. Minkeys, they're all a bunch of chimpanzee minkeys.
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Ever since I read Be Cool I KNEW The Rock was the PERFECT actor for the role of Elliot..the bodyguard/bodybuilder...one thing that wasn't mentioned and I HOPE they don't take this element out because if they did I would be pissed and would ruin a great char. and would also make a ballsy move for the Rock to play is that > Elliot (The Rock's char) is gay.
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Thanks for bringing up the SMDM abortion, Retro. Read that on Rotten Tomatoes and nearly cried. Of course, this project has been in the works FOREVER, and I suspect the reason why it never came together is because of the ridiculous premise. For that reason, I think it makes sense to make it a comedy. But Jim Carrey? For the love of god!! I can hear the pitch right now: It's like 'Hercules' meets 'Bruce Almighty!' Oh well. At least they're making a movie about Darby Crash! Long live The Germs!!!
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1979's "Revenge of the Pink Panter" was what turned out to be the final Clouseau movie which Sellers actually made. You're thinking of "Trail of the Pink Panther" (1981) which was essentially a clips episode edited together from previously unused footage (and even some already-used footage) from the other movies. Yet ironically, "Trail" did have have very funny never-before-seen moments with Sellers, including a scene where he agitates a British desk clerk by asking for a "message," and the male clerk thinks he's asking for a "massage." That's followed by another very funny sequence where a 300-pound chamber maid keeps flinging the door open and knocking Sellers out the window. Well, I guess in 1981 they couldn't have forseen DVD, so they didn't know they'd someday have the option to place these deleted scenes as bonus features on the release of whatever movie they were originally shot for. But still, yes I agree, the whole "Trail of the Pink Panther" film/project WAS, as an idea, dicey at best.
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It's one of my favorite series and although I love Steve M. -- he's no Inspector Clouseau.
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"WHAT'S HAPPENING" THE SHOW THAT BROKE THE NERD COLOR BARRIER! The show that proved to us all that spastic, geeks with no rhythm come is all colors, shapes and sizes. Of course I'm mostly refering to Raj. Rerun, on the other hand was one of the greatest dancing talents the small screen ever knew. And he will be missed. I'm sure there will be a popping contest and Soul Train line at his funeral. They sure as shit better burry him in that berret and those suspenders. The episode where he joins the wacky cult that worships the head of cabbage is some of the silliest primetime hijinks ever. It should be in the Smithsonian. R.I.P. Fred. Why couldn't it have been Jimmy Walker instead! "NO ROGER, NO RERUN, NO RENT!"
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Actually, not even the bible says the jews killed jesus, but that they simply didn't stop the romans from doing it. which means, using the same logic, you can pin it on anybody you want because nobody stopped the romans.
(the jews, by the way, can prove their innocence. at the time jesus was killed, they were off poisoning wells and lending money)
anyway, there is new evidence of a second crucifier on the grassy knoll, which means pilate was a patsy. but we'll never know for sure
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