- Journalists seem to just lurk at the ViewAskew WWWBoard these days to try and make stories out of stuff, it seems. Check
out the latest blurb from MSNBC:
Don’t expect Kevin Smith to visit Atlanta anytime soon. The director is still steaming over how some folks in the Georgia capital
criticized his movie “Jersey Girl.” “When I was there, I did a radio show where the crew was all kiss-assy, and then slammed the flick when
I left town. So lame,” Smith wrote on his Web site. “Their excuse was that they can’t get confrontational with guests, lest publicists
refuse to bring cool guests in anymore. How corporate and safe is that? Particularly for the typical zoo-crew that insists they’re cutting
edge and counter-culture?” Smith was so irate about one Atlanta review that he called the critic a name we can’t repeat here, but it has to
do with someone in the world’s oldest profession smoking crack. “So right about now, I’ve got about as much love for Atlanta as it’s [sic]
patron saint, Ted Turner, has for his ex-wife, Jane Fonda.”
criticized his movie “Jersey Girl.” “When I was there, I did a radio show where the crew was all kiss-assy, and then slammed the flick when
I left town. So lame,” Smith wrote on his Web site. “Their excuse was that they can’t get confrontational with guests, lest publicists
refuse to bring cool guests in anymore. How corporate and safe is that? Particularly for the typical zoo-crew that insists they’re cutting
edge and counter-culture?” Smith was so irate about one Atlanta review that he called the critic a name we can’t repeat here, but it has to
do with someone in the world’s oldest profession smoking crack. “So right about now, I’ve got about as much love for Atlanta as it’s [sic]
patron saint, Ted Turner, has for his ex-wife, Jane Fonda.”
- Kevin gets mentioned in the Washington Times in an
article lamenting Superman’s current place in the culture:
The Marvel Comics heroes have been enjoying a renaissance lately, ringing up huge box office, brought to big-screen life by reverential filmmakers such as Sam Raimi, a self-confessed lifelong Peter Parker fan, and Kevin Smith, with his note-for-note recreation of legendary comics writer and artist Frank Miller’s classic Daredevil stories of the early 1980s.
Sadly, the author doesn’t mention that Kevin did also write a Superman script, as we all know, quite a few years ago, before the big Superhero film renaissance began.
- Here’s a plug coming from an odd source: McCaulay Culkin. In an interview about his latest movie, “Saved!”, he says the following:
“…They were Fundamentalists saying that Christian rock music is wrong. It was so funny to me that Christians are picketing each other, so what makes us think we can get away with this movie, without someone being offended at least by the outside of it? Remember the movie, “Dogma?” It hadn’t even come out yet and they had hundreds of people picketing and no one had seen it. No
one knew what it was about. Actually, after I saw that movie I was like, “Gosh, I want to pick up a Bible and read this again,” because it was cool. And the same thing with this, from the outside for people who haven’t seen it, we’re dealing with issues like unwed teenage mothers and homosexuality and things like that. From the outside, it could be semi-taboo, you know?…”
one knew what it was about. Actually, after I saw that movie I was like, “Gosh, I want to pick up a Bible and read this again,” because it was cool. And the same thing with this, from the outside for people who haven’t seen it, we’re dealing with issues like unwed teenage mothers and homosexuality and things like that. From the outside, it could be semi-taboo, you know?…”
- In case you haven’t noticed, the rare Rene figure is back in stock at the Stash! You can order her
as part of the full set or separately. Take advantage of this rare chance to complete your Mallrats inaction figure set, as we’re not sure
how long this newfound batch of Rene’s is gonna last! - Congrats to Dogma’s Alan Rickman, whose death in “Die Hard” was awarded
the honor of being the 4th best death scene in film of all time. Quite an honor, indeed. Catch ya next time!
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