Archive for August 27th, 1999

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August 27th @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Nicholas Greco, The K-Man & Matt Garrett

  • Sort of last minute notice, but…Tonight (8/27) and Saturday night (8/28) the State Twin Theatres (120 W. College Ave.) in State College, Pennsylvania will be showing Clerks at a midnight showing. Warning: PSU and Arizona are playing here this weekend, so it may be crowded and full of drunken students. Directions to the State Twin Theatres can be found here. Nice news if you PA folks need some last minute plans for your weekend.
  • Zentertainment reports: Maria Bello (ER, Permanent Midnight) and John Goodman have joined Piper Perabo and Adam Garcia in the cast of COYOTE UGLY. The Jerry Bruckheimer-produced film, which Kevin Smith had a hand in writing, is about a New Jersey woman (Perabo) sidetracked in her attempts at stardom in New York by the Coyote Ugly nightclub.
  • Finally, just a cool little tidbit for today – Seems that CSNSider even picked up our story from Duncan on Jay & Silent Bob #4’s status. No new material there, just cool to see that News Askew is reaching more of the major players on the web when it comes to comics. Thanks, folks.

Reel.Com Links: Our links to Reel.Com are not working properly due to their switching to a new site design. We will repair this ASAP and let you know when it’s fixed. Sorry for the hassle.

CLARIFICATION/RESCHEDULE: According to our sources and this link, Kev’s appearance on 102.1 in Toronto WAS to be today…But it looks like that’s been rescheduled. The appearance will now happen TOMORROW (Friday) afternoon at 3:30 PM. It will be TAPED at this point, and broadcast between 6 and 8 PM on the station. The station does broadcast over the web. Just surf around their web site to listen in. We thought it would be important to let you know about this ASAP, since the update may not make it online until after the fact tomorrow. Thanks to Aimee, Eric Press, Mark Webster & Trev.

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Dogma In Rolling Stone…

August 27th @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Movirobb, Cryoscout, & Brian Higgins

  • Rolling Stone does their own version of a Fall Movie preview and, of course, Dogma gets a nice little piece of the action…This bit is slightly more spoiler-prone in its description of the plot, but still not too bad as far as we’re concerned. Plus, there’s some excellent quotes from Kev explaining the point he was trying to get across with the flick:
“‘Dogma’: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck play fallen angels who try to get back into heaven by using a loophole in church dogma. They’ve been living in Wisconsin for nearly 2000 years, so life had been dull- until they start shooting sinners they catch in the act of commandment-breaking. In the company of and abortion-clinic counselor (Linda Fiorentino) who may be a descendant of Jesus Christ and a smartass named Rufus (Chris Rock), unheralded as the thirteenth apostle because he’s black, the angels head to a New Jersey church for an audience with God, who’s played, as a mute, by Alanis Morisette. This comic brainchild of Kevin Smith, the twenty-nine-year-old writer and director of ‘Clerks’, ‘Mall Rats’, and ‘Chasing Amy’, is boldly funny without ever being blasphemous. But not everyone is laughing-especially not William A. Donohue of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. Bob and Harvey Weinstein of Miramax had to buy the film back from their parent company, Disney, which wanted no part of this hot potato, and arrange alternative distribution. Good for Miramax. Despite the rantings of Donahue, who is notably irked that “God is played by a singer known for her nude videos and songs about oral sex,” Smith says he intends no offense: “The central message of Christ were ‘Love one another’ and ‘Tell other people.’ ‘Dogma’ was my way of spreading the word. Granted, Christ wasn’t a filmmaker, and he didn’t trade in dick and fart jokes, but he did tell stories to get a point across.” Here’s Smith’s parable to explain his intentions: “The way my film treats the church is kind of like the girl you really like in the first grade, and you don’t know how to express yourself, so you pull her pigtails. It’s like that. Affectionately, this film pulls the pigtails of the Catholic Church.” Smith believes that Donohue is raising a ruckus to “increase his own profile” at the expense of a movie he hasn’t even asked to see. “My film is irreverent,” says Smith, “but it’s not cynical. At the end of the day here, faith saves the world.”

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Dogma NYFF Synopsis & Times!

August 27th @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by The K-Man

  • Many of you have been writing in asking for Dogma New York Film Festival info. Welp, we’ve got it. Following is their very well-written synopsis of the film (just basic plot details, no real spoilers here) as well as the dates and times for the two showings of the flick. Hope ya got your tickets!
DOGMA Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy) brings his decidely absurdist sensibility to a comedy of truly cosmological proportions. Two renegade angels (Matt Damon and Ben Affleck), long ago tossed out of heaven, discover what they think is a loophole in church dogma that will allow them return to paradise. All they have to do is pass through a certain portal at a certain time in a certain New Jersey cathedral; the problem (ours, no theirs) is that by doing so they’ll upset the divine order and obliterate humanity in the process. Standing the way of utter disaster are a woman having a crisis of faith (Linda Fiorentino), a hitherto unknown 13th Apostle (Chris Rock), a heavenly Muse (Salma Hayek) and two unlikely prophets known as Jay and Silent Bob. Delirously imaginative and full of offbeat, outrageous humor, Dogma nevertheless conveys a very human, very touching sense of awe in the face of the eternal mysteries of faith. 125 minutes. USA, 1999

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Commentary…

August 27th @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • Okey dokey…Here we go. As we write this, Kevin’s recording that radio show…Hopefully, if all goes well, you’ll be listening in tonight between 6 and 8. Other than that, and the impending group of you that will be visiting Kev & the gang in Toronto this weekend, there’s not a whole heckuva lot to report. We HAVE added the latest scans from DareDevil #8 (including the View Askew references) so be sure and check that out. After that, the ‘ol DareDevil page will go dormant for a bit until Kev’s next run. So, read on…then go out and have some fun. After all, it’s Friday!

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