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When Bruce Willis Grows a Beard, Do Not Ask Him to Shave It...
Beaks here...
If you haven't read Art Linson's brutally honest WHAT JUST HAPPENED?, I'd recommend that you breeze through it between now and the fall (it's a quick 206 pages) because I'm worried that Barry Levinson's feature adaptation of the Hollywood tell-all (scripted by Linson, and due out October 3rd) won't work quite as well with self-parodying stars like Bruce Willis stepping in for, say, a highly volatile Alec Baldwin.
Granted, the below video is pretty damn amusing in its own right (I'm a sucker for the use of the word "trim"), but the actual beard-shaving tantrum depicted in Linson's book - which went down on the set of Lee Tamahori's THE EDGE - is so much funnier. The particulars: Baldwin shows up to the set of THE EDGE sporting a full beard, which he deems appropriate for his character; the studio, already cheesed at shelling out $5 million for a non-bankable "star", flips and demands that he shave; Linson, facing the possibility of replacing Baldwin with the less physically intimidating Bill Pullman (hot off of ID4 at the time), girds for war and, roughly, the following blow-up occurs (thanks IGN!).
Good scene, but the real punch line comes later when Baldwin's then agent, John Burnham, gets served the foulest shit sandwich in the history of shit sandwiches. Even if they include this kicker in the film, it's funnier in the book because it's real. I mean, I doubt Burnham's laughing, but he's currently hanging in there at ICM, I think. He's still got Woody Allen!
And if you just read all of this inside baseball blather and said, "Fuck Hollywood!"... well, I don't blame you. At this point, I'm just hoping that WHAT JUST HAPPENED? is better than THE PICKLE.
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Good flick.
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I think
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Love the beard ,live the beard.
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Yeah, millionaires actin pissy and making jokes the critic at EW will laugh at. No thanks.
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Be a goodly obedient bastard child.
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The little hand gesture Bruno made after "You don't have 3 movies cos... you're a producer" was sweet.And De Niro was actually, well, acting. Pretty excited for this now. The book was hilarious.
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The terror of the facial parasite spreads!
Also, it shaves your head. -
i really want a book devoted exclusively to actors, directors, dp's, etc getting axed (or leaving) during productions. go all the way back to victor fleming, take me through mervyn leroy, harvey keitel (both 'apocalypse' & 'eyes wide shut'), nicola pecorini (who is fired just as often as he is hired). i want the dirty details. until then, i'll continue nursing on 'easy riders/raging bulls'.
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Because William Baldwin was living in it
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It kind of has that vibe... color me interested.
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Not so much. Interesting, yes. Just please don't "Wag the Dog" too much. Hollywood loves winking in the mirror a little too much. And Reiner? He's the epitome of directing films for the masses.
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Thought I read Reiner. Levinson instead. Another early hits lessens my recent suckage director. Is this filmed in Baltimore? No? Then WHYYYYYY Barry?????
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and no big surprise about Alec Baldwin...he called his daughter a dirty little pig so I'm sure he gave that temper to everyone else as well...fat douchebag
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and more afraid of greek people.
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Jul 08, 2008 1:02:20 AM CDT
Why would you question the awesomeness of Deniro and Willis?
by krushjudgement
I guess I need to read the book. That scene was intersting to me.
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I'd read that.
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from the flap with his daughter. I mean, she's Alec Baldwin's daughter, she probably IS a rude little pig, no?The repeated hissy fits on set are pretty douchey though.
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if his real life temper is responsible for some of his performances (e.g. Glengarry Glen Ross), then it's more than worth it.And I also kind of enjoyed The Edge.
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Jul 08, 2008 1:26:03 AM CDT
Ban Hammer on the rampage tonight, my friends.
by youareallmybastardchildren
merricks14yearoldson got cheesed in the BLINDNESS talkback.
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...but someone has been selectively deleting posts for at least the past three days now. Surely I can't have been the only one to notice this? Mostly it seems to be the bigger douche posts and anyone who takes even a sideways shot at AICN staffers that come in for the deletion ray, but I've seen first posters and other posts vanish as well. It also seems to mostly happen at the start, before talkbacks start to get too long or crowded, or maybe that's just when it's most noticable. But yeah, Captain Delete has been doing his dirty work silently from the shadows for a while now.
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Bruce fucking rocks!
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And Paul Dano playing everyone else.
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As annoying as a lot of the talkbacks are, I always respected AICN for not pulling the Big Brother card and letting the crazy people fly their freak flags. Now I feel like if I post anything disagreeable I'll get my comments erased...
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I ordered the book, but just tell me what happened with John Burnham? Looks freakin' great though.
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Good to see some love for The Edge here. It is a fucking masterwork, beard or no. It sort of knows it's ridiculous, but takes you with it, and yes, more quotable dialogue than you can shake a blood soaked stick at. Hopkins, survival, the wilderness and the biggest bastard bear you've ever seen. Cinematic gold.
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Speaking of those man vs: nature type books, does anyone know of a decent film adaptation of Hatchet by Gary Paulsen? I swear, not a season goes by that me and my homeboys don't reference that book in some way. We're waaay out in the boonies, though. Needless to say, the book stuck with us.
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OMG HERC OMG white people what do we do, fat man?
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does indeed rock pretty hard. If it were to come out now, it would have been the best movie of the year so far. Iron Man is cool and all but compared to a terrific man's movie like The Edge it really isnt' anything special.
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... as Jeff did in Iron Man. No wonder there are plenty of bears who would do them, lol. One of my ex was totally crazy for Bruce. And about the movie and the escene... the escene looks OK to me, a bit over the top Willis... but I still wonder how Levinson is an Oscar winning director for Rain Man which was really good but in no way "best" of anything.
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Hey, when is Bruce set to do that question and answer session he agreed to back around the time Die Hard 4 was released. Did I miss it?
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Playing Alec Baldwin. That would've been meta.
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While Bruce Willis plays himself doesn't work for me. He's too big to be a character while Bruce plays himself. Movies were actors play themselves should generally have b- and c-list stars playing the other roles. It's just weird to see Robert Dinero calling Bruce "Bruce", but then Bruce called Robert Dinero "Ben".And, frankly, I have a hard time buying that kind of tantrum from Bruce about a beard.
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The Edge was an AWESOME movie! I'm not gonna die, today I'm gonna kill a bear!
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Wouldn't it make more sense to have all the non-actor characters in the film be unknowns?
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I was a goddamn fool to think I'd be the first one to notice Willis' resemblance to Obadiah Stane in this clip...but it's still fuckin' weird.
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Whos Obadiah Stane?
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Happens all the time. On message boards all over the world. Including this one. Nothing new here. Move along.
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"let me tell you something. i've been growing this beard for six months. i've been up to my nuts in guts 24/7 and never ONE fucking complaint."
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in case darkman has signed off:
obadiah stane is the character played by a very bald and very bearded jeff bridges in IRON MAN. -
The Beard.
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bruce looks incredibly hot with a beard. even hotter than normal, and that's saying something.
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I was tinking the same thing while watching this. Having Bruce play himself, and DeNiro playing a character took me completely out of this scene. If this is going to be a Hollywood tell all, the non "known" characters should not have been played by superstars.
If Alec Baldwin wasn't such a douche, he would have had the balls to portray himself in this. Come on - Alec - own it, and take the paycheck. -
Yeah I know, I was hoping for some bitchy fan boy saying like, he was the bad guy in Ironman DUH! So I could start a debate about how totally useless his character was in that movie and was a HUGE HUGE weakness for the film that everyone seems to overlook, that and the lacking score.
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I think the only comments that should be banned are the annoying spamer a-holes. Like the guy who decides to make up titles to upcoming sequels past 5 things. Its fine if everyone is doing it, like back when the ouija movie was announced, but then it seems to just turn into one guy going on and ON AND ON. Yeah they should be banned. As for anything else shit should be free to fly. But has anyone else noticed the ad between the article and the Talk Back section now? Is it me or are 99.9% of all internet ads fucking useless? Really have you ever EVER clicked on an ad (on purpose, we all know about those fucking irritating movie ads that take up the whole page and half the time there close buttons don't work and link you to their page). But I wonder if the close monitoring of the TB is due to the new ad space? Though that shouldn't matter because movies had bought ads on this site before and Harrys shat all over them.
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I wonder if Alec declined to play this part? I bet Bruce and him are friends. Alec if you haven't noticed is pretty much in an I don't give a shit mode. If you haven't watched 30 Rock you need to, its been funny as hell. It was a lot funnier then the Office until after the Strike, when both shows were just killing it. The Amadeus spoof was genius. But anyways. Alec Baldwin said that he was willing to play himself in Team America, and even approched Matt and Trey to do it. It goes to show who has the bigger ego, Matt and Trey told him that they didn't want him because they wanted to do the voices. I think that it was a terrible move on their part, then again Matt and Trey are probably the most egotistical people in Hollywood at times.
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I think it will probably work in the movie. The film is about DeNiro's character, with Stanley Tucci and Robin Wright Penn as other prominent characters. Sean Penn and Willis play themselves... in which I am assuming are smaller roles. The "illusion" doesn't work here because we don't have the rest of the movie to see Ben as a character.
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Of course Alec Baldwin wouldn't play this part. Would you want to play yourself in an embarrassing part of your life? Especially with all the recent press about his temper, I am pretty sure this would have been a bad choice for him.
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A very solidly watchable movie, although the last time I watched it I had to agree when she said "what an awful story." Meaning not an awful movie, but what a pitiable series of events in this guy's (the billionaire's) life. Turns out he can't trust those closest to him...
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... just checked my DVD collection and there is a copy of "The Edge" in my "constrained by real physics" section!
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Hell yeah mofo. I gots me a copy too. You know that the third dude is the guy from Lost?
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..once it loads. Dammit IGN is slow
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My last one banned was replying to someone who was talking of the integrity of AICN 10 years ago, to which i responded 1998 was the year of Armageddon, "pwesents" and Joe Hallenbitch. Loved "The Edge" - "I have a watch with both NYC and LA time on it - so i don't have to go through the agony of adding 3." Also love seeing Augustus Hill from Oz get chomped on by Bart - fave death by ursus ... well besides Grizzly Man
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...no matter what they post. Censorship, in any form, is a terrible precedent to set.
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I thought this site was all for freedom of speech, wtf man!
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but released as PG-13? If every parent who has called their child a name, or used an expletive, was broadcast for the world to see and hear, it would be 24/7 channel. And, speaking from experience, Alec may have had some missplaced anger towards Kim. Ex-wives can drive you crazy, AND they know what buttons to push. And next to Glengarry, I think his best was in The Cooler.And The Edge was Lee Whats-his-name's last movie of merit. I expect him to be directing direct to video any day now.
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He was so hot in Rocky 4 he made me gay for weeks.
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That was ...awesome...
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Seriously..if you grow a beard like that ...you want it. You are not on the fence about that beard. Apparently "not trimming" "gets trim". That beard is Fonzie's old hair do. Fonzie's hair gotta eat!
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he would've been a better Obadiah IMHO. Bridges is great, but Obie Stane was his worst performance in years.
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If they deleted those seeking a millionaire . c o m posts. Those are getting old. The site sucks. The concept of promoting it here is stupid. A little less irritating that PigPhart5000, but not much.
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As soon as someone breaks out the gay/racial/religious insults I'm all for deleting the post. Other brands of moronic debate should stand.
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funny I thought it was about movies. But if Im wrong, then carry on with the Pigfest, fellas.
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What should happen in a TB if a poster makes, and I quote, "the gay/racial/religious insults" That Tber gets held up to ridicule and gets slammed over and over. That's how you deal with things like that. Self policing of TBs works much better then banning, give shitbirds enough rope and they continually hang themselves.
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For anything other than solicitation is ass. And if they're already at work at this gestapo shit...then why the fuck aren't they banning those "Seeking a millionaire?I just checked him/her out on blahblah.com and it said she like pizza!".I mean seriously...modding this thing is one thing..and likely not very welcome...mildly controlled chaos is what makes half the TB's interesting...but there is a little bit of whack priority if someone is gonna get the kaniffy over a rude comment about someone versus a pure dead-goat-fucking advertising shill.
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...I can't believe I've seen as many as I have...these are the assholes in Minority Report...the ones who will develop little hovering robots that will follow you around shoving their advertising feces in your face 24/7 whether you like it or not. You're not welcome here, so beat feet interloper. Asshole.
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big brother is watching... but doesnt give a shit!!
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First, the Edge fills me with awe. "I'mgonnakillthbeahBob. Say it! I'mgonnakillthebeah!" Second, this scene reminded me of acting class. And that's not a compliment.
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You're a faggy darky born again fuckface. Suck on my 1st Amendment, bitch.
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I love you.
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would keep a monitor very busy indeed. Besides, how many people find such humor amusing? Lots, or the comments wouldn't be so prevalent. Queers.
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You did the same thing I did, but faster than mine posted! And you did it with such heartfelt commitment! Congrats, sir. You are a champion of liberty and a master of comedy. Cheers.
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That's what she said.
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maybe not such a master of comedy. Still...
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there was a rumor that maybe they would be bringing buffy back and i said: sure why not. and mash and happy days. maybe have a cross over episode where buffy jumps a shark. morale of the story, never criticize wuffy. actually when i think about this text has already been deleted once. I'm not expecting it to last.
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That "Julia Roberts Joke" may have been the worst joke or scene in movie history.
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it's harry's site and the day i don't like his administration i will leave. some posters were saying that it is a new thing and is ruining the site (a common theme) it's not new and it prob is not ruining the site.
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He never posts anything new. Just the same stupid wannabe-catchphrase over and over.
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This time with a thought-provoking issue concerning benign comment deletion. Thank you, Bruce Willis. I will serve you for all time.
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I fucking love 30 Rock. Best. Comedy. Ever.
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I have never EVER defended Roman Polanski. He's a pedophile and a rapist who should be in prison to this day. You have me confused with someone else.
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make a blank update with a talkback. Promote as the "unmoderated talkback of the month" and then all of our resident 1st amendment misappropriators can go there and misunderstand the scope of the 1st amendment together while discussing sex with swine and how you can meet hot rich singles at some stupid dot com site.
meanwhile, the rest of us who DO understand the 1st amendment, and want to just have a talkback without the stupid copypasta robots can carry on. We do it with smokers - so why not the copypastas?
protip: having your stupid, stupid comment in a discussion thread on a privately owned website is not a violation of your 1st Amendment rights. If you think it is, your parents, and your educational system have both let you down. -
Why have you written off Walter B? I value your opinion and would like to know.
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