- Corona’s Coming Attractions have posted a new, different angled-pic of the Stash logo modification that happened in Red Bank last week. Remember, it’s a bit of a spoiler, so surf carefully. Corona’s THE place to go for rumors and news on pretty much every flick in development right now. You could spend days there reading all the material.
- Better late than never…There’s yet another review of the Clerks cartoon DVD at the DVD Authority website.
- Kevin is quoted in an article in the April issue of GQ Magazine (the one with model James King on the cover). The article, found on pages 117 – 120, is entitled “How The Sopranos Helped Me Learn to Love the Garden State” by David Kamp. It deals with the author’s new-found pride in being a New Jersey native that was spawned by the way it is depicted on “The Sopranos”. Kevin gets a good quote (in which he in turn quotes George Carlin) and a nice compliment in the article.
At one point Kamp discusses how much he admires the artistry of the show’s opening credit sequence, featuring James Gandolfini driving past typical Jersey sights such as “the pungent refineries, the brackish waterways, the eyesore commercial strips. That someone could forge art of these uncompromising raw materials, this ‘ultimate reality’…well, it had never occurred to me that it was possible, and I was moved”. Then he goes to Kevin to back him up:
“There’s something exhilarating about watching that sequence,” agrees New Jerseyite director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma). “I know that drive, and anyone who’s ever gone home to New Jersey from New York knows that drive. And if you know that drive, you know it’s not pretty – it’s like the old George Carlin joke: ‘I don’t know why you call it the Garden State, unless you’re talking about growing smokestacks.’ It’s part of life in the burbs, but no one’s ever done anything in the movies or TV about it. So for David Chase to do it is a big deal. I freaked out when I saw it.”
The article continues a little more about how “The Sopranos” creator David Chase depicts New Jersey:
“Chase’s New Jersey is the New Jersey I know, which is more than I can say about most other representations of the state I’ve come across in fiction. (Aside from Smith’s that is; his movies Clerks and Chasing Amy are small-scale Jersey-verite triumphs, amusing little vignettes spun out of the drab schleppiness of my old neck of the woods.)”
That’s it for the Kevin stuff in the article, though the rest of it is good as well. Pick up the latest GQ to check it out.
- Cine+, a rep theatre in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada will be screening Clerks at 9:45 on April 20 as a part of a “Best of The 90’s” weekend. This is an excellent chance for northerners to catch Clerks on the big screen. Here’s the link to the monthly schedule for Cine+ for April. Surf over to www.cinefest.com for more info.
- There’s a new article regarding Kevin’s lecture at the Academy from a couple months back on page 60 of the latest issue of Hotdog Magazine in the UK (May issue). It discusses the lecture itself as well as the Superman script stuff from a few years back. We don’t have the article to print here for ya, if we get the text we’ll post it up, though. We realize it’s tough to come by here in the States.
- Following on from the news story that Jason Lee topped a poll as indie actor who should be a star, the intelligent readers to Total Film.com have voted him the underrated actor who should hit the A-List. He’s currently ahead with 44% of the vote. Interested readers can surf on over to HERE and check out the voting.
- And finally today, it looks like that kid is BACK…on the ESCALATOR!
“Boy Saved On Ali Set”
A film crew on the Muhammad Ali biopic Ali have rescued an eight- year-old boy whose foot became trapped in a hotel escalator. The child’s terrifying ordeal occurred after his beach shoe was sucked under the rail of the top step. Luckily, movie-workers who had been filming nearby heard his cries for help and came running to his assistance. The film’s director, Michael Mann, was reportedly involved in the rescue but its star, Will Smith, was not in the building at the time.”
