- We hate even giving this ink, but in today’s column, gossiper Cindy Adams has displayed the best in ignorant journalism, by deciding to put down “Jersey Girl” without even seeing a frame of the film. It’s like one of us criticizing a new CD before we’ve even heard a note. Shame on you, Ms. Adams. Next time you decide to so publicly bash something, how about seeing it first? Then feel free to weigh in. If you’ve got a moment, and you’ve seen the film, why not send an intelligent (read: no swearing or threatening, please) to Adams or the Post and let them know what YOU thought of it.
- You’ll find a handful of brand new clips from Jersey Girl online at Cinemovies. It’s a french site, but never fear, the clips ARE in English. These are some really fun scenes from around the center of the movie, which we’d consider spoilers only if you want a few of the jokes ruined. As always, we recommend waiting to see the entire flick, but if you can’t make it, there ya go.
- Dogma composer Howard Shore will be conducting the US Premiere of the Lord of the Rings Symphony with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra on March 26 and 27. Tickets range from $35-55 and are selling out VERY quickly. To buy online, surf HERE or you can call 614-228-8600.
- We figure you might be getting your fill of Jersey Girl news, so here’s an interesting little tidbit for you. Back in Wizard #50, in October 1995 (that’s right, almost 10 years ago), they had an article stating that a Green Hornet feature film was on the way in 1996. Want to see what they had planned? Read on:
Cameras will roll on the highly anticipated Green Hornet movie before Christmas, and it will be a Universal release for summer 1996, according to Dark Horse Executive Vice President of Entertainment Todd Moyer.
“We’re going out to directors right now and will be making the movie before the end of the year,” declared Moyer from the set of another Dark Horse comic film in progress, Barb Wire. “The next step is to start a rewrite [by script writer Rich Wilkes] and get this show on the road.”
Moyer promised a reinvented Green Hornet mythos that “won’t come out as a rip-off of Batman.”
“We’ll be playing up the whole East-West duality of Green Hornet and Kato. We’ve take the Britt Reid character and turned him into a real hard-boiled type. He’ll be balls to the wall; swinging across cables and shooting guns. Kato will be a much stronger character who will be well-versed in the mystical Chinese arts. Fireballs will fly out of his hands, and we’ll have a scene where Kato runs across the tops of moving cars. The idea is to have a lot of fun with this.”
Fireballs, ‘eh? Well, it’ll sure be interesting to see how, if at all, Kevin’s version compares. Maybe this blurb will give him some ideas (or some ideas to AVOID!).
- A new article in The Advocate meets up with directors Kevin Smith & Guin Turner to discuss the decade since their “Clerks” and “Go Fish” features (respectively) appeared. We’ll have some scans of this for you shortly, but in the meantime, you can read some outtakes from the piece HERE.
- This is sort of public knowledge now, but we figured we’d share the piece with ya anyway. Jersey Girl cameo spoilers ahead, don’t read if you don’t wanna
know the surprise. This comes to us from the Sun-Times:
Smith needed an A-list star to play himself — and part of the plot includes a publicist played by Ben Affleck saying something about him that isn’t very nice.
Smith first went to Willis figuring that he’s a Jersey guy at heart still. “Originally, I wrote the role for Bruce Willis, and offered it to him, but there was only one problem. I never heard back from Bruce Willis.
“So, I said to Ben, ‘Why don’t you try to contact Willis.’ Ben was like, ‘I can because I know him because we [starred together in] ‘Armageddon.’ ”
But even Ben couldn’t get through. “Bruce didn’t call him back either,” Smith marvels. Finally, one month shy of filming, Smith offered the role to Will Smith.
“It worked because Will was the Fresh Prince and rapping. …And he was in ‘Bad Boy,’ but I always knew him as DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince,” Smith said.
- Keep your eyes on MTV News, which runs at 10 to the hour, ever hour. They’re occasionally airing Kevin’s segment regarding “Jersey Girl” and “Green Hornet”.
- Clerks gets a quick name drop at the end of this NCAA Final Four article that appeared at Yahoo Sports.
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