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Susan Sarandon and John Goodman think it's their time and call in KEVORKIAN!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I'm a big fan of both of these actors, especially John Goodman. I grew up with ROSEANNE and discovered his Coen Bros work in my teens. The dude always makes me smile, so any news of a new John Goodman performance makes me smile.
He and Sarandon are joining Al Pacino in Barry Levinson's Dr. Kevorkian bio-pic. Of course it is widely known that Kevorkian was famous for breaking the law and assisting terminally ill patients commit suicide and was recently paroled after 8 years in prison.
According to a Hollywood Reporter article Goodman will be playing Nicol, supporter of Kevorkian and assistant in some of the suicides.
Sarandon will be playing Janet Good, a staunch right to die activist and Kevorkian supporter who herself asks for his aid when diagnosed with terminal cancer. Seems like a helluva role for her and it's good to see her and Goodman together again (I thought they were great in SPEED RACER, which despite internet haters' screamings is a damn good movie).
Very quickly, I have a Goodman story to share. I met the man in Central Park after he left a performance of THE SEAGULL in 2001. I had driven out there to see him, Natalie Portman, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken in this play (directed by the great Mike Nichols, I might add) and the night before I was in line for tickets for the next night's performance when the entire cast comes walking out.
I went up to meet Walken (who is a living idol as far as I'm concerned), but the second I saw him I froze up. He seemed so intense, head down, shoulders stooped, that I couldn't bring myself to approach. Plus I was a bit starstuck.
But I did go up to Goodman who was more than a little drunk. He was super nice, chatting for about 15 minutes. I asked him what he was doing now. He mentioned "I just did this cartoon with Billy Crystal..." I was like, "Yeah, MONSTERS, INC!" It struck me as funny for some reason when he called a Pixar movie just this "cartoon" movie.
I told him I'd like to interview him for the site and he said sure and took my card. We parted ways and he bellowed back at me "And yeah, I'll call you! I'm not a dick! I'll give you a call." Well, he never called me, but he certainly isn't a dick. It was really cool of him to take the time to chat with a nerd who loved his work.
Anyway, that's my John Goodman story. This Kevorkian flick looks to be shaping up rather well. Can't wait to see how it turns out. You?
-Quint
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Sounds intriguing
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good old dan
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Susan Sarandon: You killed them!But I thought you liked them. They liked you.
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makes me want to "get treated" by Dr. Kevorkian
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Shut the FUCK UP, thumb dick. Jesus, enough.
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You know what's not dead?
THE ZONE!
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BUT HONESTLY SHE ONCE SAW MERYL STREEP ACT AND HAS BEEN TRYING TO CRAWL UP HER ARSE EVER SINCE.
TRUE STORY, THAT. -
OMFG. THAT AND THE NEW TREK ARE TWO EXAMPLES WHERE THE AICN PONCE STAFF HAD THEIR HEADS SO FAR UP EACH OTHER'S COLLECTIVE ASSES IT WAS LIKE A GIANT ANAL DAISY CHAIN.
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...BUT READY TO BEND OVER FOR GOODMAN?
ARE THERE ANY FUCKING REAL MEN ON THE AICN STAFF? CHRISTALMIGHTY. IF IT WERE ME I WOULD HAVE STROLLED UP TO WALKEN AND TOLD HIM TO BEND OVER AND GET READY FOR HIS ASS FUCKING AS PUNISHMENT FOR APPEARING IN THAT GODAWFUL SARAH PLAIN AND TALL TV SHOWS. -
It does seem a little odd to do a biography of a killer who is still alive, but if this helps to stop him from ever assisting another hurting confused person again I guess it could be a good thing. There is a lot of star power involved and they can help illuminate one of the darker chapters in Western medicine.
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Neil, seriously, fuck off.
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Nice to see Sarandon and Goodman together again. I hope Levinson brings his game. Wanted to like WHAT JUST HAPPENED, but it was pretty 'meh' to me.
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He never called you back man, plus I have it on good authority that he eats all the food and won't let his family eat till he's done. But there's never any left.....the horror!
Also, Speed Racer was fun. And we put animals to sleep to ease their suffering, yet some will happily allow fellow humans to live out their last few months in agony rather than help them die with some dignity left. Those people are assholes like Stvnhthr. -
and make Kervorkian kill the characters from Speed Racer.
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The acting outshined the CGI. There was so much CGI that you actually ignored a lot of it and focused on the acting. It did what those awful Star Wars movies couldn't, it took a script that would've worked on a small budget and made it work on an outrageous budget. IDK why all the hate. Fat fucks, I guess.
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is a good movie, I enjoyed the hell out of it...but if I remember correctly the AICN staff was pretty divided by it...someone put it as the worst movie of the year and someone else put it as the best movie of the yearas soon as I saw Sarandon's name I knew just KNEW she was going to be playing a right to die supporter that would probably face that decison in some form. It's typical Sarandon political move 'acting'...if she really wanted to act she'd play the opposite of her beliefs
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He always plays smarmy republican politicians. I don't think that's good acting, that's just political move acting, as you said. I bet you a dollar that Hollywood is already putting together a script for that abortion doctor who died.
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Does it really make your life any harder to scroll past one extra post on your way to the anime column?
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Well, at least that's what happened when Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins got together. Seriously - why does everyone feel the need to inject politics into privacy issues? Doesn't anyone else (regardless of political persuasion) feel these people are smug insufferable pricks? What's Susan going to do next? A biopic on Terri Schiavo where she drools on herself for two hours until her husband (played by Sean Penn while being assisted by a doctor played by Alec Baldwin) pulls the plug on her then removes her skull-cap and finds her brain is a sponge the size of a walnut? Bloody fucking hell.
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Is she going to be the "face of love" again on this one?
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Will give us their looney tunes version of reality. I wouldn't touch a Hollywood movie 'based on a true' story with a ten foot pole.
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It was seizure-inducing, lamely-executed, convoluted mess that didn't appeal to any demographic.
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it really was. it was cool and had heart.
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Ummm...I think you're a tad confused. It's the right-wing lunatics that tried to prevent Schiavo from dying and Kevorkian from providing dignified death to the terminally ill that were injecting politics into privacy issues, not Robbins and Surandon. Hopefully that is the point of this film.
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What?! What the heck are you talking about?
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That's one hell of a cast.
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10 years from now people will be heralding that movie for how ahead of it's time it was. The Wachoskis are one of the most interesting writing/directing teams out there right now and will go down as the Sci-Fi equivelent of the Cohens, fuck all the haters.
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This movie looks to be great. I'm not a huge bio-pic lover but Dr. K's story is great and hopefully ethunasia will be an option for me should I ever need it. The 'moral' right's stance on the sanctity of life is a sick joke.
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Because I don't want to be a burden or suffer.
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Helter Skelter anyone. Your moralizing makes me vomit, confused, hurt people, who just want OUT!!!
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He is great on late night shows, and all the host love him, why didn't he make the rounds and get the word out that he was in the movie? FUCK Rain Wilson was on Letterman last week promoting Transformers 2 and he's in what one scene?
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Has gone sober now as well.
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Sweater puppies in Speed were part of the excelence that was that movie. Probably my favorite non CGI part. But that movie is awesome. Though is it not now the biggest flop ever? It didn't even break $100 million world wide? It was such a piss poor handled marketed movie. And putting the first 7 minutes online I think hurt it, it is a movie with a 30 minute learning curve built in.
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He seems like a fun dude to be around.
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Because I've been here since 1996 and I've loved this site for a long time, having spent a lot of my formative geek years here and learning so much from the people that run and frequent this site. ScriptGirl is just such a shallow attention-grab that it really hurts this site's overall credibility (what little it has left) and almost makes me feel ashamed to say I've been here for this long. Its like watching your favorite athlete or actor turn into an asshole, punching little kids and showing up to work drunk, shouting out racist epithets and ruining his life and reputation and making you feel embarrassed for ever having been a fan.
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I love your posts but you need to read before spouting - as I said; the criticism is politically agnostic. It's not about whether it is Republican or Democratic injection....the Schiavo example is tough in cheek and not meant to be taken literally. The point is that too many actors are injecting their personal politics into their performances rather than leaving some matters (like the right to die) private. There is no forthcoming Schiavo project - the example was hyperbole to demonstrate a point about the tackiness of pushing personal politics into private citizen's life choices. All the best mate.
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(This is ScottinDC sorry....alternate login). Didn't mean to confuse bud!
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There is only so many lame attempts at humor one can take in a lifetime. I'd rather fucking see Beetlejuice do her job (the Howard Stern guy, not Batman).
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is a rel divider. Some love it some some hate ie.
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Kervokian gets cash, Harry can have an option out, we get rid of chocolate-pussy related reviews, and Yoko inherits the website and can review her crappy CDs again. Everyone wins.
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Which is it? If'n I freeze, I kin't get down on the ground.
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So you're saying that by taking a part in a film like this Sarandon or whoever is interjecting her beliefs/politics into a person's private life choice?
Interesting but I'm not sure I agree with that idea. It seems to me a person's private choice should be and is their choice regardless of Sarandon's or anyone else's opinion of it. Sure the actor is taking part in a dialogue on the subject matter, but that private choice isn't affected by the actor's or the film's politics, is it?
Unless the intent of the film is to prevent that person from making that personal choice by influencing public opinion or endorsing legislation that prevents it.
But in this case it's the opposite. In my opinion Sarandon is making this film in an effort to convince Americans that such matters should be private and that politics should not be interjected into one's decision to die. -
Geoffrey Fieger? Put Craig Bierko or Jeremy Piven in a wig?
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by diabetes, heart disease, stroke, etc.etc.etc. The man has been as big as a house for eons now.
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One out of ten, half for John Goodman and half for the chimp. You have to be fucking retarded to enjoy that movie -- and I really like the Wachowskis. Maybe you're looking at it through rose-tinted glasses because of your affinity for the source material, but as someone who doesn't care one whit about the lineage/evolution of the story I can tell you that no objective observer would ever enjoy that awful piece of garbage. It was in the same league as Passchendaele, Vantage Point, and other claptrap crap of that ilk.
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He should have "THIEF" written on his gravestone.
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It is interesting how people bitch about Hollywood not doing something new and original yet Speed Racer was highly inventive.
It was a live action Anime, It had a story and the visuals were unlike anything that was done before it. The movie was different but it wasn't this horrid deal you guys make it out to be. It would've been cool as shit to see in 3-D.
As someone who grew up watching Speed Racer, not that next generation bullshit but the original Speed, I thought the movie was entertaining. Sarandon and Goodman were great in the scenes they had together, glad they're working together again.
Maybe they should've handed out mushrooms to all the A.D.D kids in the audience before each viewing, maybe they're wouldn't be as much internet hate.
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You discovered his Coen brothers work in your teens?
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hes a creepy batstard. I mean that in the nicest way
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What did Goodman steal?
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Raising Arizona came out in 87, thus putting Quint around 36-37 years old.
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Tied with Dark Knight for best genre movie last year. It was great.
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Maybe the death machine can be a Mach 5? I liked SPEED RACER, its haters need to start hugging people more.
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Actually it wasn't good at all. The handjob my girl gave me during the show was fantastic though.
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The guy is (slowly) killing himself with food.
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The man is so large that he looks like a heart attack waiting to happen......he always seems out of breath......I was worried he was going to keel over and die on live TV one night when he hosted SNL.
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was great in SPEED RACER. his hooters, on the other hand...
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great
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I hope they mention K's lawyer, Jeffrey Fieger was creamed by John Engler in 1998. K ran for Congress last year, a few of my friends voted for him. He got 2.7%.
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Fuck Kevorkian. Schiavo was a real right to die case. Kevorkian was a doctor he did what he wanted, regardless of the law. The law stands to protect citizens from being "assisted" before their time. Kevorkian may have had the best intentions, and the people he "treated" were in great pain, but his actions were the actions of some who just did whatever the hell they wanted because they felt like it. Susan Sarandon is a classy, intelligent lady and a damn good actress. I agree with her politics, but Kevorkian was no hero, no martyr. He thought he was doing the right thing, but so do people like Dick Cheney. No one has seen the film, though, and yet everyone here seems to conclude what the tone of the film will be.
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he has plagiarised some important work of mine..... he is sick in the head and body.
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I see your point bud...but Susan's history is NOT one of subtlety or of espousing the needs for political privacy and subtlety. I point to Dead Man Walking; certainly a fine film on its own merit..but one that also served only to stand as a politicization of the debate about the death sentance. On its own, that would be fine - but the families in the real case this movie was based on found this film INCREDIBLY distasteful since it put their private pain on display. I don't see any reason to believe this film will be any different.
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HE WEARS A FAT SUIT! IT'S TRUE!!!
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I wonder why only one of these names is remembered when discussing the "humanitarian obligations" involved with the euthanization of human beings?
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