• 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.

• 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:

• 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!

• 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!

• Joe was asked about the lines of his and Jimmy’s that were cut from the Con opening in “Chasing Amy”, and he revealed something we hadn’t heard before…Some pretty funny adlibbing that they did:

It may seem weird now, but when ya meet those two, it all makes sense.

• The Diamond Comics website is reporting that Clerks: The Lost Scene was the 88th most solicited book in August. Diamond is the biggest comic distributer in the US. The full list can be found at here.
• Finally today, for those of you that want to know more about “Mumford”, here’s some info (MINOR SPOILERS) revealed in a press kit floating around for the flick: Jason Lee plays “the richest guy” in a small town composed of eccentric people. The plot is centered on a shrink that sets up shop in the town and gives the locals blunt advice that results in “unlikely romances” and chaos. Apparently Lee’s character pays the psychologist to be his “friend” because he’s somewhat of a recluse.

• An astute reader of our site points out that an even easier way to support News Askew Affiliates is just to click OUR links then save that link in your bookmarks! Then, just going right to your bookmarks will still register as a click through News Askew! All ya gotta do is click this Reel link and this Amazon link, bookmark the pages when you get there, and just use them from here on in when ya make purchaes. Simple, right?

Sorry for mentioning this so much lately, we’re not trying to shove any of this stuff down your throats…Just letting you know of an easier way you can get some great deals online AND continue to support us. Thanks!

• Zee’s at it again with another of his fantastic writeups on all the latest View Askew goodness in this month’s issue of Wizard:

• Well, after a much needed day off, we’re back with a few more tidbits. We refer to this normally as the calm before the storm. With Kevin’s appearance on the radio (and on a realaudio feed) tonight, and the convention this weekend, we’re sure that there’s going to be no shortage of news this weekend. We’ve got some busy times coming up ourselves, but will try and keep the site as current as possible. Just know that, given our schedules, things may be a bit later than usual. Also, expect some details this weekend on how you can test your setup out to make sure you’re ready for the big chat & raffle drawing this coming Wednesday. Here’s the news:

• Jim Mahfood has corrected/clarified his statement on the TALK magazine Clerks comics premiere…

Should be very cool. Hopefully the gang will be kind enough to allow reprints here at the site. We’ll still recommend you buy the issues too, of course, for collector’s sake.

• DVD File now also confirms that the Chasing Amy DVD slated for release in Canada next month is listed only as “widescreen”, not 16:9 anamorphic. Keep in mind, though, that Alliance did the same thing with their Good Will Hunting DVD and released it anamorphic anyway, even though the packaging did not even indicate it! Hopefully we can get clarification on this from the folks mastering the disc so you can at least have a final answer. We figure we’ll get the disc either way. It’s worth it.
• Moriarty, one of the more frequent contributors to the AICN website, checked in with his top 10 must see flick before Y2K hits…And includes Dogma (and some slight SPOILER MATERIAL, so be careful):

• And hey, what’s this? We think this may be the first official capsule summary of Dogma out there, courtesy of The Village Voice:

Whew! What a workout! Time for a beer or something…See ya next time.

• A couple of periodicals give View Askew & Dogma some more of that worldwide press exposure…Both Details and People Magazine feature players from the film and give it a mention. Details brings up those loveable Jay & Silent Bob action figures, and People’s got a piece on Ben, Matt, & their roles in Dogma. Click the thumbs for full size scans of the stuff.