- We’ve been holding out over the weekend on posting the new Psycomic info as we’ve been waiting to see if anything else majorly newsworthy popped up and, well, it just really didn’t. With the movie not yet shooting, Psycomic and the trades are going to be the best place to dig up casting info until Kevin can finally make some official announcements. That being said, here’s a couple of the things we COULD come up with, along with the aforementioned Psycomic column news from this past Friday:
Archive for December 4th, 2000
Psycomic: Kev On Reese Witherspoon…
- This week’s Psycomic “Developing The Monkey” stems from Kev’s 5 hour or so chat with Selma Blair, who had quite a bit to discuss about a past nemesis of his, Reese Witherspoon. The title? “The Unholy Tale of Greasy Reese Witherspoon”. That just about says it all, doesn’t it? Here’s a little preview:
I so want to egg Greasy’s house. Granted, I know she’s married to Ryan Philipe, and they have a baby daughter now. But none of that matters to me. We’re not talking about a drive-by shooting. We’re talking about a drive-by egging. I mean, fuck it; it’s Friday night, we’re in L.A., and we’ve got nothing else to do. What could be better than whipping eggs at the home of a couple B-listers?
Read all about it right HERE!
View Askew NewsBites™
- A piece regarding Kevin Smith & Peter David’s supposed rivalry appears at Silver Bullet Comics today, entitled “The Battle of the Bulges”. You can find it HERE at the Silver Bullet Comics website. They give it a “rumor value of 9 out of 10” since it’s based on posts Kev’s made, so it’s not as much rumor as a lot of the other stuff there.
- The Fall 2000, Volume 9, #1 issue of Filmmaker magazine has a brief article on Vulgar on page 38. There’s a picture of Scot Mosier, Kevin Smith, Monica Hampton, and Bryan Johnson, as well as the article below:
SAD CLOWN
The second rape-revenge drama at Toronto this year (NOTE: magazine is referring to previous article about French film Base-Moi, or Rape Me) was also the winner of the Fest’s Truth in Advertising Award. Bryan Johnson’s Vulgar, about an anal assault on a children’s clown, inspired the sort of head-shaking, deeply disturbed responses you don’t see very often these days. No gleeful moral outrage here — many Vulgar reviewers were shaken, not stirred, by the dark comedy. Exec produced by the View Askew team of Scott Mosier and Kevin Smith (seen left with producer Monica Hampton and director Bryan Johnson), the film was born when Johnson, while hanging out at the New Jersey Quik Stop where Smith worked, asked Smith if he could write a movie based on the transvestite clown cartoon the Clerks director had just adopted as the mascot of his production company. The View Askew website (www.vi! ! ewaskew.com) has more info on the film, which Lions Gate will spring on unsuspecting audiences next summer. –S.M.