• We’ve added some captions to the previous story featuring photos from the Lee signing at the Stash last week. So, feel free to surf
  on back (or scroll down, depending on your current browsing day) to check that out.
• The Carolina Film and Video Festival has confirmed View Askew auteur Vincent Pereira as a judge for 2005. Vincent will probably also give
  a lecture/seminar on filmmaking during one day of the festival, though that has yet to be determined.

The CFVF is the oldest continually running film festival in North or South Carolina. It is an annual production of the film school at the University of
North Carolina-Greensboro. 2005 marks the festival’s 27th anniversary. The festival dates are February 23-26, 2005.

Entries are currently being accepted in a variety of genres. Please see carolinafilmandvideofestival.org for more information on the festival,
including application materials and ticket information. There are thousands of dollars worth of cash prizes for winning films/scripts. Go to
Greensboro and check out some great independent films, or better yet — enter a film of your own for a chance to have it judged by Vincent himself.

• We’ve got a scan of Jason Lee’s Stuff article that we mentioned last week for you now. The article
  covers his skating background.

• Lee is also listed in the new issue of People Magazine (Dec. 13th). He is included in a top ten list of odd celebrity children’s names
  and managed to come in at number two with his son, Pilot Inspektor. The scan of all 10 is right here for ya.
• In case you’re not watching one of the best new shows of the year, “Lost”, perhaps this is more incentive – View Askew fave (and occasional
  cameo-er) Paul Dini is on board writing episodes and backstories for some of the characters. Last week’s episode was a real rush — If you’re not tuning
  in, we suggest you start. Wednesdays on ABC (soon to be followed by the equally awesome Alias!).
• George Carlin will be doing stand up at the Paramount Theater in Austin, Texas on January 15th. Tickets are on sale now.

• And finally today: The new issue of Entertainment Weekly has a small article on how the movie version of the “Da Vinci Code” will be appealing to Catholic
  organizations (like the Opus Dei) in an attempt to not piss them off. The article starts “It’s one thing to arouse the ire of Christian groups with indie
  films like ‘Dogma’ or ‘Priest.'” At the end, EW gets a quote from out old friend, the Catholic League’s Willam Donahue where he says “Why not have a
  disclaimer at the beginning of the movie that this based on a novel [and] does not purport to be fact?” Then he would “have zero problem.”

Wow – Who knew that that was all they had to do with Dogma to stop the protests – Say it’s fiction? Huh. See ya next time…