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  • Good ‘ol MSNBC and Jeannette Walls picked up Kevin’s recent comments on the Wired article for their
    daily gossip column:
No star trip for Smith

Kevin Smith doesn’t like the way his demeanor was described recently by Wired News.

The director of “Jersey Girl” had some choice words when Wired News quoted someone as saying that he frequents a place called Genius Bar, and “rarely has anything to say, but always looks [bleeped] off when he is forced to wait at the bar just like everyone else.”

“If I looked [bleeped], it’s only because I don’t burst into a room, a’la Robin [bleeping] Williams, trying to make everybody laugh,” Smith ranted on his web site. “What the [bleep] is this [bleep]? Now, if you’re not wearing a grin all the time, you’re [bleeped]?”

Smith, who insists he only visited Genius Bar once, also denies that he was irritated about having to wait at the bar. “I’m not [Ben] Affleck,” he wrote. “I’m used to waiting in lines.”

Wired News had no comment.

  • Seems that Affleck’s going to play another superhero after all…of sorts. He’s taken the George Reeves role in the pic about the Supes
    actor’s mysterious death:
Duo pursuing ‘Truth’ – Affleck, Lane find their ‘Way’

NEW YORK — Ben Affleck will play George Reeves and Diane Lane will also star in Focus Features’ “Truth, Justice and the American Way,” the story of a Los Angeles gumshoe trying to solve Reeves’ mysterious death.

Reeves met a tragic, mysterious end in 1959 after years portraying TV’s Superman.

As previously announced, Adrien Brody stars as the detective investigating Reeves’ death. Lane will play Toni Mannix, the Hollywood wife of a studio exec who may have been linked romantically to Reeves.

Script also centers on Reeves’ complex relationship with the iconic role that propelled him to stardom.

Pic starts shooting this summer, with Allen Coulter helming.

“Truth” was penned by Paul Bernbaum, with a final draft by Howard Korder.

Glenn Williamson is producing through his Back Lot Pictures, which has a first-look deal with Focus. Williamson recently served as an exec producer on the Focus pics “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and upcoming “The Ice Harvest.”

Bernbaum is exec producing “Truth,” with Focus’ Joe Pichirallo overseeing.

  • Yahoo News reports a new casting
    in the Jason Lee-starring sitcom, “My Name Is Earl”. The lovely Jaime Pressly will join the cast at Lee’s ex-wife. Her credits include the features “Joe
    Dirt” and “Not Another Teen Movie.” We’ve read an early draft of the pilot script here at News Askew, and will have a review for you soon.

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