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Dogma Benefit: What Have We Learned?

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  • Marksman chatted it up with some of the residents of Red Bank while he was in town, and dug up a list of RUMORS that have been making the rounds. Keep in mind that we can’t confirm any of this, and it’s all just coming from overheard conversations and questions asked during the Dogma benefit on Monday:
* BHD in theaters?

Phase 1 will be in NY and LA, Phase 2 will be nationwide IF the bi-coastal screens do well.

* Autograph filming?

If Vincenzo gets his way, Autograph will be filming in New Jersey.

* Dogma DVD?

Lots of fans thought that the film suffered from all those cuts, and are hoping for a “Director’s Cut” style DVD, as opposed to a “Deleted Scenes” section. The rumor is that the Director’s Cut may happen, but not with 100% of the cut footage.

* Jay was sick?

All you peeps that said “Jay looks all stoned out and shit!!” are probably mistaken. The word on Broad St. was that he was sicker than Walt Flanagan’s Dog (Bronchitis?), but inspired by all the fans, he mustered up the energy to make his appearance.

* Fake ID anyone?

A communication breakdown somewhere may have caused the “Under 21” crowd to get turned down at the door to the Downtown Cafe, even though Kim announced that they were welcome. After her set, Kim extended her apologies to all who missed out on the show and the sushi.

Benefit Summaries/Reviews & Pics!

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  • Hopefully you took a few minutes and read our Dogma benefit trip report yesterday…But even if ya did, you may want to surf back over because we’ve just added a lot more pics from the event, courtesy of Gramp, as well as pics, reviews, and a transcription of Kev’s introduction that can be found over at All Purpose Reviews. Again, we were happy to be a part of it and hope everyone had a good time. Sure sounds like ya did. Thanks again for coming out to see a great flick and benefit diabetes reasearch and treatment at the same time.

Commentary

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  • Howdy. The car troubles have been boiled down to all new spark plugs and wiring, which still cost a hundred & change, but fixed the problem and is definitely better than a major transmission problem or something. The way I drive that car, it’s almost a miracle that it wasn’t something worse…

There’s no denying the fact that Lions Gate is going all out with promotion of the flick — Ads are now airing everywhere for Dogma, mostly on Fox, the WB, and Comedy Central, but many other spots as well. In fact, last night, Dogma was the spotlight sponsor for the immensely popular new WB show “Angel”. If that doesn’t make some good impressions, we don’t know what will.

Anyway, Dogma continues to dominate the news ’round these parts, naturally. Today we’ve got a few reports from the benefit event along with some new photos, tons of newsbites on the flick, and more.

View Askew NewsBites™

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  • George Carlin was on that Howard Stern wannabe Mancow‘s radio show yesterday morning in Chicago, promoting Dogma. Mancow called Kevin a friend but criticized the film and the concept of Alanis as God. Go figure. The jackass.
  • Kevin was featured in the Hollywood Hall of Fame this morning, which is a one minute-long feature run during commercial breks on a Calgary TV station.
  • Mallrats lives on! Tonight during “Once and Again” on ABC there was a brief shot of the ‘Rats theatrical poster in the background during a scene. Must be some fans working on the set.
  • In the November issue of Details there’s an article on a new camera called Lomo. They sent it to a few actors, among them Jason Lee. Carmen took a picture of him that’s in the magazine. Next to it it says:
“The Lomo is so easy to shoot with, and easy to carry,” says Lee’s wife Carmen Llywellyn, who took the picture. “We took it everywhere, and loved the idea of just shooting whatever we saw – very artistic.” While Llywellyn, an actress, clearly manages the household photography, Lee’s no creative couch potato: After appearing as lonely billionaire Skip Skipperton in Lawrence Kasdan’s Mumford, he reunites with director Kevin Smith (Mallrats, Chasing Amy) to play a hotheaded demon in this month’s Dogma.

Now all we need is for the Lomo folks to start sending promo cameras to lowly webmasters…

That about does it for today! Still lots and lots to do at the house, it never seems to end. Catch ya later.