Sorry for the delay…Ya know how it is…Holidays and all. You’re all doing great at getting our hit counter up there, but we’re still a far cry from our desired 50,000 mark by VulgarThon. Doesn’t look like it’s gonna happen, but dammit, we’re still gonna try! Tell all your friends to visit us this week! On with da news…
Archive for December 29th, 1997
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- In the newly released Tick holiday comic, The Tick Big Yule Log Special, released by New England Comics Press, the chasing Amy movie poster makes an appearance. On page 18, panel 5, just after the Tick jumps the Evil Elf, we see the Elf trying to take some chinese finger traps off his hands. In the background of this panel is a movie store and in the store window is the poster! Thanks to BabaLou for digging up this obscure newsbite!
- Matt Damon will be making another TV appearance tonight. This one’s on the David Letterman show. Be sure to check it out. Thanks to Carrie for the scoop!
- The ‘Oni Double Feature’ comic is due to ship to comic book stores mid-January. Can’t wait!
DirecTV’s Amy Write-Up…
- Michael Williams dropped us a line with this brief piece on Chasing Amy that appeared in his TV Guide…We thought you might like to give it a read:
Smith and Lesson
by Scott Barwick
If there’s one word to describe Kevin Smith’s filmmaking style, he’ll readily admit it’s “poor.” “I have zero visual talent,” states the 27-year-old writer-director of Chasing Amy, “but I have a good ear fordialogue.”
If you caught Smith’s debut, Clerks, this last fact is obvious. “I just filled [it] with the stuff you sit around and jaw with your friends about,” he says, noting that he learned to follow that old axiom: write what you know. ” I put things up there I identify with. By virtue others identify with it as well.”
Barring a twist or two, Chasing Amy is another good example. “A guy who can’t get over his girlfriend’s past hits very close to home. It’s a snapshot of my relationship with [star] Joey [Lauren Adams], except Joey wasn’t gay, and I [didn’t fall] in love with a lesbian.”
Amy Tops More Charts…
- Thanks to Gramp for letting us know that Chasing Amy has made the top 10 of two more charts, according to Microsoft Cinemania. Critics Andy Klien and Leonard Maltin both put the flick in their top 10. For the curious here’s their complete lists:
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| 1 … L.A. Confidential | 1 … CHASING AMY | ||
| 2 … Lost Highway | 2 … Boogie Nights | ||
| 3 … Schizopolis | 3 … As Good As It Gets | ||
| 4 … Face/Off | 4 … L.A. Confidential | ||
| 5 … Men In Black | 5 … Donnie Brasco | ||
| 6 … Happy Together | 6 … Titanic | ||
| 7 … Amistad | 7 … La Promesse | ||
| 8 … Deconstructing Harry | 8 … Deconstructing Harry | ||
| 9 … CHASING AMY | 9 … The Sweet Hereafter | ||
| 10 .. Hercules | 10 .. The Full Monty |