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Its Official, this Edition marks the 5 year Birthday of Elston Gunn's WEEKLY RECAP...

Bravo by BigBadMofo	Jul 1st, 2003 11:39:00 PM
Congrats Elston. I look foward to the recap every week, since I do not get all the trades. Keep up the good work!
venomfang, seriously, Eat Sh*t. by whiteboyrage	Jul 1st, 2003 11:57:44 PM
The dude provides free, badass content non stop for five years and the first post is "I don't care"? You are a serious douche, dude. Blow it out your ass.
Bring out the cake.. by Senshine	Jul 2nd, 2003 12:00:19 AM
Happy Birthday 2 U, Happy Birthday 2 U, Happy Birthday Elston Gunn's WEEKLY RECAP, Happy Birthday 2 U!
Happy by Jervis Tetch	Jul 2nd, 2003 12:15:05 AM
Hey, today's my B-Day, too. Also Pamela Lee's and Dan Ackroyd's. Love these posts -- even if I ain't going to 70% of the projects announced here. Meanwhile, "The Manchurian Candidate" comes closer to the real deal with Liev Schreiber in the Laurence Harvey part. (Guy Pearce woulda been better.) Impossible to match the timely 1962 McCarthy era/Cold War original (the new one is set during the Gulf War), but who can stop these atrocities anymore? Denzel in for Sinatra, Streep in for Lansbury. Only key casting left: the Janet Leigh part (Sinatra/Denzel's girlfriend.) How about Anne Heche? Memo to Paramount: if you gotta remake "Manchurian," how about remaking the unbeatable David Amram score? (Sad, scary, sometimes at the same time.) Happy birthday, Elston site. P.S. What's going on with casting on the Hanks/Coen brothers "Ladykillers?" It's a month past announced shoot date, with barely any casting. Whassup?
The only problem with the weely thingy is the DAMN BOLD TEXT by Lelon	Jul 2nd, 2003 12:40:29 AM
Seriously, it may be a mozilla thing (though i doubt it, and even if thats true it just means you aren't doing your html right) but EVERY WEEK, the first few entries are in plain text, AND THE ENTIRE REST OF THE POST IS BOLD, was he trying to bold certain segments? Does he really mean to bold everything except the first few? How god damn easy is it to fix a little html problem?
You aren't closing your HTML tags by Lelon	Jul 2nd, 2003 12:42:19 AM
IE is error friendly and corrects when authors forget to close their bold tags when it encounters a p tag, but this is NOT standard HTML and looks like ass in other browers. pleace close your HTML tags its not that hard.
or maybe you could.... by nuno75	Jul 2nd, 2003 01:03:03 AM
just use a real browser and then you would not be forced at gunpoint to be a dick.
Liev Schriber will never top his work in "Phantoms". by user id indeed!	Jul 2nd, 2003 01:08:52 AM
"Hey.... you wanna see somethin'?"
Good job, Elston by Darth Thoth	Jul 2nd, 2003 01:33:13 AM
Congrats and thanks for the good informative work. Keep it up. Peace.
Five years in the internet are a lot! Lots of dotdoms have laste by weird v3.0	Jul 2nd, 2003 03:44:47 AM
I read this recap, and I like it. Period. Keep up the great work, Elston. Fuck those bashers.
Topac Shakur directed Four Feathers? by chien_sale	Jul 2nd, 2003 04:12:11 AM
I`m impressed! By the way, why isn`t Doug Liman directing Matt Damon for the next Bourne Identity film? This is so STUPID STUPID STUPID.
THE DINNER PARTY by JAGUART	Jul 2nd, 2003 04:27:54 AM
"Ashton Kutcher and Bernie Mac will star in the Columbia Pictures comedy THE DINNER PARTY about a man marrying a black woman whose father is having difficulty coming to terms with the marriage." So I guess "sexy" Queen Latifah will be the black female love interest then eh?
Man I remember when the first EG Recap came out. by Toby O Notoby	Jul 2nd, 2003 05:39:03 AM
Now I feel very, very old. Congrats Elston.
Elston......vols. 1-5 by ChickenGeorgeVII	Jul 2nd, 2003 05:41:13 AM
normally, I would only give such praise as this to a bad one name director...but since I do read your column and I do roll my eyes at 90% of it (not because of you, but what you have the sad duty of reporting)...i feel i must risk being flamed for trying to start a catchphrse...(just giving praise kids)....so here we go.....ALL HAIL ELSTON!!!!! ALL HAIL ELSTON!!!! SEXIER THAN A 60 YEAR OLD HAG AT A 2 STAR CASINO WHEN FULL OF 26 SHOTS OF RUM!!! ALL HAIL ELSTON!!! GET IN YOUR CAR AND SCREAM IT IN TRAFFIC!!! ALL HAIL ELSTON!!!! ALL HAIL ELSTON!!!!....And thus, thanks for the five years, now let's drink! - - - George, The 7th Chicken!!!!
AND NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT...... by ChickenGeorgeVII	Jul 2nd, 2003 05:44:01 AM
FIVE YEARS OF LOYAL SERVICE TO ALL OF US AND TO THE WEBSITE, AND ALL YOU GET IS A "thanks" FROM FATHER GEEK?????? FUCK THAT!!! FIVE YEARS WITHOUT A SICK DAY IS WORTH CAKE AND HOOKERS!!!! GET WITH IT, AICN!!!!...And thus, I have spoken again! - - - George, The 7th Chicken!!!!
Great Job, Elston! I'm so glad that pretentious asshole, "Buzz M by PORKY	Jul 2nd, 2003 06:15:09 AM

Congrats, Elston. by Miami Mofo	Jul 2nd, 2003 07:26:21 AM
Keep 'em coming.
Elston Gunn's only 5 years old! by rev_skarekroe	Jul 2nd, 2003 08:51:15 AM
Either he's very talented or I need to play more attention to what I'm reading. sk
Simon West to direct a movie about Dali? SIMON FUCKING WEST??? by TV CASUALTY	Jul 2nd, 2003 02:33:51 PM
It's official. There is no God.
oh, and just so I won't be thought of as only a negative-thinkin by TV CASUALTY	Jul 2nd, 2003 02:38:07 PM
Keep up the good work, Gunn. Your stuff brings some order to this otherwise gleefully chaotic mess of a site. And, oddly enough, it's actually NEWS! Seriously, congrats. I'm eating a cupcake in your honor right now. Shut up. I'm not fat.
I just want to say - Liev Schrieber kicks ass! by WeedyMcSmokey	Jul 2nd, 2003 02:48:28 PM
Thank you very much!
Manchurian Candidate remake a stupid idea by alexnivek	Jul 2nd, 2003 02:52:21 PM
I am curious, however, to see what they will do with the Janet Leigh role. Leigh's character is almost completely superfluous to the movie. Even that weird, weird scene on the train doesn't lead to anything. (Frankenheimer admitted that he didn't even know what was going on there, but just lifted the scene straight out of Condon's novel). Will they cut Leigh's character out, will they make her relevant to the plot, or will they just copy the original? If they do include her character, please, please, let them cast an actress as sexy as the beautiful, voluptuous Janet Leigh. Salma Hayek springs to mind. NOT the ugly, bony, skinny, utterly unattractive Anne Heche.
Congratulations Elston! This is one column I read without fail by CountryBoy	Jul 2nd, 2003 07:46:07 PM

In the news... by Darkman	Jul 2nd, 2003 08:05:37 PM
Call me crazy, but I think GROWN UPS has some potential, as does IQ 83. (Who's to say that this virus doesn't already exist...especially in Hollywood and DC? Ba-dum-bum.) As long as it doesn't mutate into a MEET THE PARENTS clone (just between us, that movie - save the last ten minutes or so - is highly overrated), THE WEDDING PARTY sounds all right. Bernie Mac and Asthon Kutcher? I'm there. Two strikes against it, though: a) A comic remake of GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER sounds a little dicey, particularly in the wake of Kate Hepburn's passing (RIP), and b) "David Ronn and Jay Scherick will write..." Let's look at their credits: NATIONAL SECURITY. Strike one. SERVING SARA. Strike two. I SPY. Oh, that's a big strike three. To paraphrase a line I read at jumptheshark.com about "Project Greenlight", Scherick and Ronn are to funny screenplays what arthritis is to masturbation. Also, Hollywood really must be running low on the originality meter. How else do you explain talks to remake BACK TO SCHOOL? Leave it alone, dammit! Finally, happy 5th birthday, Elston Gunn's weekly recap. Here's to five more, at least.
AHHHH! DAMN YOU ROBERT TOWNE!!! by nushustu	Jul 3rd, 2003 12:09:55 AM
_I_ was going to direct Ask the Dust! Oh well. And what is this about Doug Lyman not directing the next Bourne movie?
Kudos by gurglesnap	Jul 3rd, 2003 12:11:07 AM
Good column. Thanks for it.
to reiterate an earlier post ... SIMON WEST directing a film abo by Lou C.	Jul 3rd, 2003 12:22:27 AM
Who are the movie wizards that came up with this one? what's next, Jan DeBont doing "Picasso: Full Throttle"?
Congratulations, Elston (And For The Record, Buzz Maverick Is Da by Barron34	Jul 3rd, 2003 06:47:13 PM
Thanks again, Elston. For those of us who are both fans AND people with a real interest in the industry, the Weekly Recap is always a great synopsis of what is going on deal-wise in Tinseltown. Here's to 5 more years!

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