Archive for December 26th, 2000

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December 26th @ 10:41 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Craig Balogh, Jonathan Littlemore, Trevor Hale, Mike Hensley & Justin McGill

  • A new one-page ad for the Clerks Cartoon DVD appears in the new issue of TOTAL MOVIE magazine. Looks like the picture of Silent Bob flashing the bunch made the cover.
  • UK entertainment magazine HEAT reviews Dogma in their best films on cable section this month and had this very complimentary paragraph to offer:
” It’s got religious gags, sex gags, gay gags, youth-culture gags, body function gags and gags to make you gag. What writer/director/co-star Kevin Chasing Amy Smith’s rampagingly funny and irreverent satire didn’t have, when first released, was an audience. The time has come, then, to right this blasphemous wrong. Meet earth-bound bad-boy angels Loki and Bartleby (Matt Damon and Ben Affleck respectively), who have found a loophole in God’s law which will allow them to re-enter heaven. So abortion-clinic worker Linda Fiorentino, muse Salma Hayek and voice of God Alan Rickman are entrusted with the task of stopping them, avoiding killer skate-boarders and shit-demons as they go. US Catholic groups didn’t get the joke, but you certainly will, because, amazingly Smith’s film – one of the first he ever wrote – never stops being funny or inspired for a second. It’s one of the best things on TV this Yuletide. Watch it and you will believe! ”
  • View Askewer Ethan “Sups” Suplee shows up on the newly released “Road Trip” DVD and VHS this month. Though we didn’t care much for this flick, the disc DOES come in an unrated flavor and features some deleted stuff with Sups himself (since his final part in the flick wound up being pretty small). Check it out at your local video store.
  • The Buddy Christ makes the cover of The Aquarian, a music newspaper, this month.
  • Looks like Kev’s Psycomic column made the new issue of US Magazine (with Sandra Bullock on the cover):
“Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillipe may be the cutest young couple in Hollywood, but even they’ve got enemies. Clerks director Kevin Smith refers to Witherspoon as ‘Greasy Reese’ in a column he wrote for the web site Psycomic, explaining that Witherspoon was ‘condescending’ when they met in 1994 and was rude to his then girlfriend. More than six years later, Smith writes, he begged actor Selma Blair for the couple’s home address- ‘What could be better than whipping eggs at the home of a couple of B-listers?’- but she wouldn’t tell him, despite a half-hour of pleading.”

Post-Xmas Commentary…

December 26th @ 7:30 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • Well, as we’d expected, it was a very quiet Christmas newswise, thankfully, since it was a busy one otherwise. Hope you all had a Merry one. So, as the wrapping paper and gift piles are cleaned up, and the leftover cookies eaten or packed away, it’s time to take a breather and check in with stuff. First of all, the Maxim scan IS posted down below with the last story, and wow…We should be careful what we ask for before a holiday break, as we got TONS of copies of it: So, not to leave anyone out, thanks to Matthew Cantau, John Zukatus, WynTahChyld, Nny &Adam B. Mark for the scans.

Only a few days left on that logo contest, and we’ve got an announcement ready, though we’ve yet to make a FINAL decision. So, if ya want to get in on that last minute consideration, ya still got time. The entries have all been so unique and incredible though, thanks to all of you for taking the time to send one in. We’ll be sure that they all get seen.

We’re prepping a small update with some post-Christmas tidbits for ya, nothing of major note, just the usual small stuff that gathers over time. Check back for that later tonight or tomorrow morning when you’re back at (ugh) work after a nice long weekend. Until then…