• There’s a fantastic new article on the Jersey Girl and Clerks X DVDs up at Jim Hill Media. Hill is a reporter for all things Disney (among other things) and is very eloquent. The article again mentions a Fall 2005 target for the Clerks sequel.
• Ireland Online also has a few kind words on “Jersey Girl” today.
• The big news circulating the web today is the announcement of Chris Rock as the host of the next Oscars. Most stories seem to be mentioning his role in “Dogma” in their copy. This marks the first time that a View Askew vet has hosted the Academy Awards. 🙂 We’re looking forward to his work.
• Tomorrow morning, The Screen Savers site will put up a web exclusive chat with Jason Mewes. They’ve also gota short summary of the interview that took place on Thursday online, along with a new “Two Minute Chat” with the man they call Jay.
• Nickelodeon has started running a spotlight of Jason Lee featuring his new role as the villian in the new Pixar movie “The Incredibles”. In other Lee news, 411VM, a major skateboad publication is spotlighting Jason in its newest DVD issue.
• NewsItem.com names Clerks as one of their top 10 funny films to put you in a better mood:

• Could the new Clerks flick mark an ongoing return for Jay & Bob to the big screen? MTV.com runs this blurb today:

• How’s this for cool news? Bryan Johnson and Walt Flanagan have signed a deal with IDW Publishing to create their on 4-issue comic book miniseries, entitled KARNEY. It will follow a group of twisted sideshow performers traveling from town to town. The title will debut in April 2005.
• According to the Associated Press, Green Arrow issue #43 will reveal that Green Arrow’s sidekick Mia is struggling with a personal battle against HIV. As you may remember, Mia is a character that was created by Kevin during his run on Green Arrow a few years back. You can read more about it right HERE.
• Finally today, here’s an excerpt from a recent interview given by Edgar Wright, the director of the great SHAUN OF THE DEAD and SPACED, discussing among other things, his opinion on other directors:

• Tickets are going on sale this Thursday, October 14, for Kevin’s appearance at the University Of Hartford on Friday, October 22. You can call the Lincoln Theater box office at 860-768-4228. Tickets will go fast, so make sure you get yours!

• Kevin made a call yesterday to the new Opie & Anthony Show on XM satellite radio. He actually had the distinction of being their first
  celebrity guest.We’ve got the complete audio of the call here if you’d like to listen, or you can simply read the summary we’ve got here. Not much new
  information during the interview, but Kev dished on the following:

All the major players in radio seem to finally be embracing satellite, including Howard Stern, the biggest name in radio, who announced a voluntary move
to Sirius radio last week. We can’t wait for the uncensored show.

• “Joey” as the Green Hornet? Dark Horizons posted this in their rumor mill:

• Jason Mewes couldn’t make his appearance on The Screen Savers late last week, as we announced. According to Alex Albrecht, Mewes will
  appear, most likely, on next Thursday’s Screen Savers (for the LAN Party).
• Here’s a weekend giggle for ya. Those of you familiar with Kevin’s story telling Jon Peters’ vision of SUPERMAN will enjoy this cut
  together clip (drawn from many different films) of what a Jon Peters Superman teaser may have looked like. Fun stuff. Surf
  HERE then check out “Jon Peters’ Dream”.
• A brilliant new addition to Files Askew, the best do-it-yourself
  printable Nails cigarettes box we’ve seen yet, has been created by Dave
  Barr. If you thought you looked cool smoking before, imagine how much cooler you can be now! No kids, we don’t recommend you smoke. But it’s a neat prop
  to make all the same. A full step by step creation guide can be found HERE.
• Mewes apparently has a “Myspace” profile (one of those Friendster sort of chain-link things). Surf over and check out his growing harem of hot chick associations. And enjoy your weekend, fellow Askew fans. We’ll see you again soon.

• In case you missed the latest hilarious edition of Roadside Attractions with Kevin Smith last week, Ming’s been kind enough to place
  an encoded version in QuickTime (.MOV) format. In this edition, Kevin attends the wacky and wild ‘Celebrity Impersonators & Tribute Artists Convention’
  at the Stardust Casino in Vegas.

The piece originally aired on The Tonight Show on September 24th, 2004.

Click HERE to watch it now!

• Film fans and aspiring filmmakers ought to head to West Chester, PA this weekend, which will host its first film festival. The schedule
  is too extensive to list (see it at www.westchesterfilmfestival.com), but keep in mind that short films will be screened in two-hour blocks for $7 a
  ticket.

Two days of free workshops are on tap one of which features Rob “Ratface” Holtzman, View
Askew’s production designer extraordinaire from Chasing Amy and on. We’re sure he’d love to meet some fans, he’s always been most kind and generous with
his time when we’ve had the pleasure of his company.

• Another UK publication titled “Uncut” features a nice little sidebar with Kevin in their latest issue. As most of us here Stateside
  can’t get this book, we’ve got a nice little scan for ya. Click away.
• The Winnipeg Sun gives high marks to View Askew’s 2 October DVD releases, Clerks X and Jersey Girl, in this blurb:

• Here’s the upcoming November airdates for Jay & Bob on Comedy Central. It’s been confirmed that the late night showings HAVE been
  uncut and unedited, so choose carefully (the TV sanitized version of the flick isn’t near as entertaining or well-produced as ABC’s Mallrats cut,
  however).

• It’s always neat to see a different style of artwork take on the Askewniverse. Chad Blakely has posted a
  new painting that features a lot of familiar characters in a slightly Askewed style all their own.

• Sorry for the late notice on this (though we believe the show does rerun later at night or early tomorrow), but Jason Mewes is scheduled to appear as a guest tonight on G4TechTV’s “The Screensavers”. The show initially airs at 7 PM EST. Catch it if you can! More updates in a bit…

• A great little piece ran in the Calendar Section of the widely read and respected Los Angeles Times…It’s called “Director is Drawn to Comics Business” and summaries Kevin’s recent opening of Secret Stash West in Westwood, CA. The article confirms Mewes’ employment in the store and frequent visits from Kevin himself. Click the scan above to see it all.

• Those of you following the Miramax/Disney saga or intrigued by the man that’s helped make View Askew’s films all possible, Harvey Weinstein, will find an excellent read in this new piece, “How Harvey Weinstein Survived His Midlife Crisis (For Now)” from New York Metro. This is by far the most we’ve seen on the man, and a very interesting, informative, and well-written piece on one of the great supporters of independent filmmakers today. Recommended reading!

• The ‘Shoot’s got a TON of new material up that we think will be relevant to all News Askew readers — First up, check out that wonderful Halloween rendition of Jay and Bob on the front gateway page to the site. Nifty, eh?

Michael Dequina also treats us to a ton of new photos in his “A Night Out” column where he chronicles both the Stash Westwood opening ceremonies and that way cool Buena Vista DVD party from a few weeks back. Scroll on down for bunches of photos and new commentary.

• Popular View Askew composer JAMES L. VENABLE is performing at THE SUNSET ROOM on October 9th – that’s THIS SATURDAY at 8:30pm. For those of you in the L.A. area that would like to attend, go to www.screamingfan.com (”news” on the home page) and RSVP to get on the DISCOUNT list… only $7.00 cover gets you in for the whole night at this very cool club. Tell Jim we sent ya!
• Drew Struzan, who’s known for his original art that is the wonderful Mallrats poster (among many, many other amazingly photorealistic film posters) has a new book coming out, showcasing these works. He’ll be at LA Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention on December 12th. Sadly, it seems Drew can only sign copies of the book there, though perhaps you can catch him in a generous moment pre or post-signing and get a Mallrats poster signed or something. At any rate, the book’s bound to be full of coolness, and it’s a great chance to meet this legend.