“Me & My Shadow” Continues…

March 30th @ 8:38 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • Kevin’s lovingly-detailed account of his life and times (so far) with Jason Mewes, “Me & My Shadow”, continues this week at the “Silent Bob Speaks” and “MySpace” blog sites. Looks like Kevin’s now posting a full version of the text at both places for these stories, so be sure to make stopping by these sites part of your daily surfing routine (as well as your stop right here at News Askew, of course). Let’s take a look at just a few select passages from the latest entries, Part 2 and Part 3:
“The great irony of the “Clerks” theatrical release is that very little attention was given to Jay and Silent Bob in the profile pieces or reviews. Aside from identifying me as the director who also played a small role in the film, the arrival of the two characters – characters I’d not only forever be most closely identified by, but who’d go on to feature prominently in all my subsequent flicks, right up to the who’d’ve-thunk-it lengths of the pair actually headlining their own movie seven years later – went largely unheralded. To wit, the only notice Jason Mewes received for his performance in “Clerks” while the flick was still in theaters came from a small review in People magazine, in which the author wrote “You want to find the rock he crawled out from under and make sure there’s no more like him under it.””

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“Harvey gave us a lift back to the east coast on the Miramax jet. Over the course of the five hour and change flight, the three of us smoked (Harvey’s jet was dubbed “The Flying Ash Tray”) and chit-chatted, with Harvey getting to know Jason better than he’d had time to in the past. When Jason uncharacteristically told Harvey he was really happy with his involvement in the AIDS benefit, due largely to the fact that his Mother was HIV positive herself, the conversation got very serious, with Harvey insisting that he’d get Jason’s Mom to the best doctors in New York City a promise he’d later make good on multiple times over.

“We’re not gonna let your Mother die,” the chairman of Miramax told Mewes.”

The story is truly a detailed, incredible tale that not only shows every side of Mewes since Kevin has known him, but also humanizes the story and, amazingly, shows just how much Kevin can remember all of his past experiences with Jay. Truly a friendship that was meant to last. Read it all from the beginning. You’ll be glad that you did. And if you know someone in your life who’s got problems with drugs, it might not be a bad idea to share this tale with them, as well.

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