• Alanis is mentioned (along with Dogma) on CNN’s Showbiz portion of their website today, in part 1 of a 2 part article. Better yet, our own Dogma: Rumor Control gets a link at the end! We love to see stuff like that. Anyway, here’s the Dogma portion of the piece, folks:

No stranger to the camera — she was a child actor on Canadian television and made numerous music videos, including the surprising, nude appearance in “Thank U” — Morissette has recently set her sights on a film career. Her first role: God.

Kevin Smith, director Of “Clerks,” “Mallrats” and “Chasing Amy,” was chasing Alanis in hopes of casting her as God in his next film, “Dogma.”

“I had just gotten off the road, and I was tired, and I didn’t think I’d be of any value to him,” Morissette says. “I said no at first, but then as I kind of rejuvenated, I checked back in with him and he still hadn’t cast the role of God. And I said I’d love to do it and I did.”

Well, Alanis seems to have been a great casting choice for Dogma press ALONE! Read the full story from CNN HERE.

• Ben Affleck will star in the casino heist thriller, Reindeer Games, for director John Frankenheimer. He was just inked to the flick late yesterday.
• Appalachian State University in Boone, NC is showing “Clerks” on Thursday, February 4 at 8:00 PM in I.G. Greer theatre. It should be just a buck to get in.
• The Mos Eisley Multiplex site has added two interviews that might be of interest to you folks. There’s an interview with Jeff Allen all about how he made “Trooper Clerks,” and there’s also an essay by Fred Tepper, where he extols how he came up with the idea for “special defects” in “Hardware Wars”–and how that somehow eventually led to doing effects for “Dogma”.

• More info on Chasing Amy’s UK release. First of all, it looks like the UK vid may (exclusively) come with a free copy of the Clerks/Amy scripts at the UK’s HMV stores – but nothing public has been said about this yet. The UK book is by Faber and Faber. It has the 2 scripts c/w a few photos and B/W Bluntman and Chronic comic artwork in the middle, but it has a different cover than the US version – basically the still of Joey used on the Criterion disc (in black and white).

The Video trade magazine “Timecode” gives Amy 8 out of 10 for saleability as it were. They say as Clerks has been such a good and constant seller (over 150,000 copies sold) they expect Amy to do the same as fans of Kev know what to expect and there will be a lot of added interest due to the new found popularity of Ben Affleck (thus Amy will sell well off the back of Good Will Hunting which was released for retail here last week). They report that there will be a lot of advertising in the national media for Amy so that should help.

Finally, Also the German channel Teleclub (available in the UK on Satillite) are showing Amy throughout February. We hear that listening to Ben and Joey say “What did you do last night? “I got laid” in German is quite an amusing experience in itself. It’s running all month, so you German Askewers may wanna be on the lookout.