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  • In the Rotten Tomatoes website forums, they’re currently holding a tournament called “Battle of the 90’s” to determine the Best American movie of the 90’s. Clerks, Chasing Amy and Dogma are all included in this competition (along with 128 other films) shooting for the title of BEST AMERICAN MOVIE OF THE 90’s! Cast your votes HERE!
  • Wrestler Kevin Kelly had the following to say on the new Tom Green/Jason Lee film “Stealing Harvard” at his site today:
Poor Jason Lee. His character is torn between honoring a family commitment and making his girlfriend happy in the new movie “Stealing Harvard”. Yes, the man who saw his “Bluntman and Chronic” creation turned into a “90-minute long gay joke” in “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” returns along with Tom Green and Megan Mullally from “Will and Grace”.

Lee’s character needs to come up 30G’s to pay for his niece’s college education? What, she couldn’t find a nice community college to get into? Besides, she is just a niece. So what if your sister hates you? Just do like you did when you were eight and saw the heads off her Barbies if little sis gets wise. But I am here to let you know that there are a lot of comedic elements here that could make “Stealing Harvard” the sleeper of the fall movie season. Check it out!

  • And speaking of Lee, here’s a little anecdote from a brief article on Julia Stiles on Empire magazine’s web page:
While no toilet-orientated wisdom was on offer, Stiles also managed to learn a few things on the set of A Guy Thing, a film she’s recently finished work on. Playing a dancer who wakes up in bed with Jason Lee’s soon-to-be-married man the morning after his bachelor party, Stiles is in wholehearted agreement with Empire Online that Lee is one of the funniest men in movies. “Absolutely! I’d be at work at 5 o’clock in the morning after working all night. I’d be fading and he’d crack some joke and make me laugh. There’s actually a scene in the move where we’re talking and I burst out laughing, but me bursting out laughing is actually from him just making me laugh in one of the outtakes as opposed to me actually being in character. He’s hysterical – I stole all of his jokes and took them back to school with me and made everyone think I was really funny.”
  • Alright, while we’re talking Lee — Here’s today’s transcript of his MSN chat! It’s not too long, and even has a few questions Askew. Enjoy.
  • After 3 months of design and building, UK Askew is back on a nice new permanent server! Check out the new site athttp://www.ukaskew.com.
  • Until recently, the morning DJ for Radio 104 in Hartford, CT, and another station in Richmond, VA, was Dee Snider, former lead singer of Twisted Sister. On his show, he used MANY sound bites from Kevin’s movies. One of the guys on the show, Darkside Dave, used to use Chewbacca as his theme music. Recently, he was using Brodie’s “On that note, we cue themusic” a LOT. His show was just cancelled due to contract issues with Clear Channel. In his letter to the fans, he quotes “On that note, we cue the music.”
  • And finally tonight, on FOX’s “Street Magicians Revealed”, they revealed a trick about guessing a 2 digit number that has both odd #’s and they have to be different. The trick was that it was played by statistics and — Guess what — #37 is the number most people guess out of all of them. Perhaps “Clerks” indirectly played a part? See ya next time…

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