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  • E!’s Behind The Scenes special on Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is scheduled to air on August 24th, August 26th, and August 27th. Here’s details:
Behind the Scenes
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
30 min.
A look at “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back,” Kevin Smith’s big-screen comedy about two friends who set off for Hollywood after a film that was based on their lives becomes a hit. Smith, Jason Mewes and Shannen Doherty star.

Rating: TV-PG
Category: Entertainment & Magazine Shows
Release Year: 2001

Doherty? The E! channel must really love that girl.

  • Kevin will be hosting the entertainment segments of the KTLA morning news on Monday the 20th, for those in the Los Angeles area. Don’t miss it! In fact, if anyone can capture the segments for us, that’d be great.
  • Roger Ebert again brought up Jay & Bob negatively in his response to a viewer question in his Answer Man column last weekend:
Q. I think you misunderstood Chris Tucker’s racial tirade in the casino, in ”Rush Hour 2.” He was being obnoxious on purpose (and doing an excellent job, I agree) to distract everyone from Jackie Chan’s attempt to get inside the room that had the counterfeit plates. Perhaps you were so put-off you failed to notice.

Ginny Shook, Palm Desert, Calif.

A. In a movie like ”Rush Hour 2,” the plot points are not–well, the point. A scene like Tucker’s tirade is not necessary. There were countless other ways to distract attention, and some of them might have been funny, while his was not. Tucker could have invented some sort of odd, eccentric or peculiar behavior that did not involve accusing an innocent person of racism. It left a bad feeling in the room. I think the whole riff (black guy goes ballistic with allegedly funny charges of racism) is getting stale. Chris Rock does more or less the same thing in “Jay and Silent Bob.” It’s time to move on.

  • There’s an article at the Film Threat site called “Chasing Chevy” which wonders what happened to Chevy Chase’s career. It mentions the old Fletch stuff that went on between Chevy and Kevin when Fletch Won was in the planning phases.
  • In case we didn’t mention it, IMDB has a Clerks: Sell Out page as well as a Fletch Won page. Nothing yet for Kevin’s next flick, but that’s likely because a title has not even been established just yet.
  • There’s a positive review of the Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back soundtrack online HERE.
  • CITY TV in Canada will be running Chasing Amy tomorrow night at 9 PM and 2:35 AM.
  • We have recevied word that some folks are receiving their Brodie shirts, and are attempting to confirm if they are indeed all shipping from the Stash. We’ll also try and get an update on other items that should be arriving soon.
  • There will be a screening of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back on Tuesday, August 14 (TOMORROW) at 7:30 at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon. Passes are available at Excalibur Comics (and probably elsewhere).
  • In this IGN interview with Seann William Soctt, he describes his character in Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. It’s more American Pie 2 focused, but you might wanna check it out anyway.
  • Jay Leno mentioned the whole Planet Of The Apes fiasco in his Friday night monologue (of course ignoring all the news of the resolution that came afterwards though) – The punchline was something like “why would anyone want to take credit for that ending?”
  • Random Jay & Silent Bob spotting: A fan noticed a sketched framed drawing of the duo eating a corned beef sandwich in a deli in NYC’s Times Square called “Roxy’s”. If anyone gets a pic of it, send it in! Catch ya next time, hopefully with one more update before we fly west.

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