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Kevin On Dead-End Jobs…

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  • June’s issue of Swing Magazine featured an article titled, “Guidance From The Stars”, which explained how to get the job that you want. Kevin was asked a question, and here’s the results:
How do you know you’re in a dead-end job— and how do you get out of it?

Since the critical and commercial success of his film debut, ‘Clerks’, in 1993, writer-director Kevin Smith, himself a former video clerk, has made a name for himself portraying the lives of frustrated, alienated slackers stuck in unfulfilling jobs. Smith’s fourth film, ‘Dogma’, is due out later this year.

“The tell-tale sign is usually that you’ll accept five bucks an hour, so long as it’s under the table. And when the conversation among your friends turns to, ‘You know, if the money was good, I’d probably be in a porno,’ is a sure sign that the job you’re in isn’t very fulfulling. And how to get out of it? Make a movie- though it’s better if it’s not a porno. It worked for me.”

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  • Hey folks…Things have been slowing down lately, and we like it. Of course, there’s NEVER a day that goes by without something Askew going on it seems, but we’re enjoying the peace for the moment anyway. A few news stories today, and some updates to Dogma: Rumor Control, including a new report from Kevin.

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  • Harry Knowles at AICN put up a review of an ‘Armageddon’ test screening…We haven’t read it, because we hear that there’s some spoilers in it, but if you’d like to give it a looksee, you can find it right HERE.
  • Ben‘s been popping up in a few more spots on there in the press world…June’s issue of Movieline features, of all things, a guide to pronouncing his name properly (and a photo we don’t have) in The All-New Name Game:
Ben Affleck
pronounced: *Aff*-leck
should not be pronounced: Uh-*flek*