- Today’s most popular scoop: Reel.Com has a trivia game they run where you can win money towards future purchases. Today’s question revolved around Chasing Amy, asking what the name of the comicHolden & Banky write is titled. We’re sure you know.
- Heading to Sundance? You lucky dog. There is a brew pub / movie house that is showing Dogma near the festival. We hear it’s is a great place watch movies and throw back a few. The name of the place is Brewvies. Have fun!
- Dogma Worldwide Release Info: The flick opens in Thailand on FEBRUARY 4TH. Also, in Australia, folks around the country will be able to see early screenings of Dogma at movie marathons this Tuesday the 25th at Hoyts cinemas.
- Jay & Silent Bob artist Duncan Fegredo is appearing at the Comics 2000 Festival in Bristol, England, which runs April 22nd & 23rd. Stop by and get your books signed! We promise they’ll go up in value even more.
- For those of you with the Indepedent Film Channel (We’re not one of ‘em, which is why we always miss these scoops), Kevin’s This Ain’t no Junkett part 1 interwiew was on Split Screen Tuesday night. Episode 50 of split screen: This ain’t no Junkett part 2 will be RE-airing this coming Monday. Tune in if ya missed it!
- More screenings? You bet! A special showing of a double feature of Dogma and Clerks happens in Los Angeles on February 3rd and 4th atThe New Beverly Cinema theater. It’ll cost ya 5 bucks. See their site for more info.
- Comic writer Mark Millar lists Kevin as one of his favorite writers on the Wildstorm site.
- A column on Psycomic.com mentions ‘Dogma’ and ‘Clerks: The Lost Scene’ (a fantastic book) in a discussion of independent comics.
- More Clerks TAS online columns: ANIMATION BLAST ran a bit on the series…A bit opinionated, but we thought you’d like to check it out, all the same.
- Finally today, it looks like Bill Donohue STILL isn’t done Dogma bashing. Check out this strange letter that appeared in this February’s Esquire magazine:
Catholic League president William A. Donohue responds to Tom Carson’s column (The Screen, December) on Kevin Smith’s film Dogma.
The Catholic League’s protest of the movie Dogma led Tom Carson to write, “Just once I’d like to see the blasphemous film that the people who make it their business to denounce these things keep promising me.†Gay bashers feel the same way – they keep waiting for a really good flick that sticks it to the homosexuals. Any bet which movie will never be made?
Cason also says, “This side of theocracy, I have no idea how today’s zealots justify their conviction that they have veto power over anything they dislike, since I don’t know what passage in the Constitution declares religion or any other hot potato off-limits to in-orthodox views.†That’s easy. It’s the same passage in the Constitution that homosexuals repaired to when they lay down on the set of Crusing to protest what they believed to be a bogoted film: It’s called the First Amendment. The only difference is that the Catholic League’s protest of Dogma didn’t do violence to anyone else’s rights.
Finally, Carson concludes that “Donohue has probably won simply by making Dogma an issue.†What’s with the “probablyâ€?
WILLIAM A. DONOHUE
President, Catholic League
New York, N.Y.
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