• Most likely due to “Almost Famous” taking off so well, Jason Lee’s all over the place in the papers or on the tube. Here’s some various Lee bits for ya today:

• A couple chances to catch some of Jason’s flicks on your TV this weekend: “Mumford” will be playing on STARZ this Saturday night at 8:00 PM. Comedy Central will be airing “Kissing a Fool” this Sunday at 8:00 PM EST.
• What’s Lee like to do on the weekends? Here’s a short interview from the Los Angeles Times:
  Jason Lee

  By ROBIN RAUZI, * the Actor Plays the Lead Singer of the Band Stillwater in the Film “Almost Famous” and Has Also Appeared in “Dogma,” “Chasing Amy” and “Enemy of the State.”

  Magical Music Hours: I don’t go out much–like to bars with friends. My wife, Carmen [Llywellyn Lee] might go out on a Friday night with her friends. I’ll be at home in my recording studio working on music. If I have a choice between a crowded bar and working on music, the choice is obvious for me.

  Saturday Driver: Saturday during the day, we always take drives. We like to go to this place called Dagwood’s on Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica to get pizza and subs and stuff. Since we live on Wilshire near downtown, we take Wilshire all the way. Driving is just a way of being outside, and it becomes an activity all its own. We really want to buy a house, so we’ll drive around and look at open houses. And I have that new Honda roadster, the S2000, so I’ll take that out every once in a while.

  Another Spin: On Saturday, we’ll probably also go to the movies, see our friends and stop off at a record store and buy records. I’ve been collecting vinyl for a while. I’ll talk my wife into letting me do that for an hour at Moby Disk, Vinyl Fetish or Record Surplus. There’s a big selection of jazz and spoken word at Record Surplus–stuff that’s great for sampling.

  Paint the Town: On Sunday, we might go to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where we’re members, or to the Getty. We used to go to LACMA on Friday nights where you can sit outside and the jazz bands play. And the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena also has a really great collection. I’m also really into architecture. My favorite architects are Henry and Charles Greene and Frank Lloyd Wright. We’ve been to the Gamble House, where you can get a tour and then go into the book store and get a map of Pasadena and drive around the streets and see these houses.

• Last night on a radio show called Rockline, Cameron Crowe stated that he is a big Jason Lee fan, citing how much he enjoyed his performances in Kevin’s movies. Crowe also revealed that he’s a big Kevin Smith fan. Very cool to hear.
• Some new and old pics of Lee (from Almost Famous and before) can be found at Lee World.

• Kevin reports that Jeff Anderson (Randal from Clerks) is getting ready to shoot his own directorial debut, from his own script, this January. Congrats to Jeff on the big achievement!

• Newsarama reports that Matt Wagner is doing the covers for issues 1-12 of Green Arrow. Wizard elaborates:

• Almost Famous is getting some of the best reviews for a flick ever, in fact, it’s tough to find someone who doesn’t like this flick. The Ottawa Citizen has an article on Crowe that contains a new shot of the Stillwater band, featuring Lee, of course. Check out the piece HERE.
• If you’re interested in reading stuff from a Kevin Smith fan’s point of view, FanFiction’s got a section devoted to texts inspired by Kev’s flicks, written by the fans. Lots of reading material there for slow news days like today.

• We’re not sure how long it’s been around, but now that the flick’s been sold, we want to make sure that you know this. The official View Askew site has put up a Vulgar site (including some nice photos, details about the film, cast & crew etc.) There’s no official link at the View Askew homepage yet, but you can get to it directly using this URL: http://www.viewaskew.com/vulgar/.

We’ve also been sent a copy of the official Lions Gate press release announcing their purchase of the flick for distribution. It’s in Microsoft Word format, which most of you should have no problem reading or converting. Click HERE to get a copy.

• Jason Lee’s fictional band Stillwater from “Almost Famous” is up for best Fake Band in their online poll. Stillwater is running against the likes of Spinal Tap and 2Gether and is not faring well. (It had 0% of the votes.) We’re sure it’ll take off once more folks see the flick, though. Surf HERE to cast your vote.
• On today’s final Jeopardy, the answer was “On May 16, 2000 the 2 writers of this 1998 movie joined a rally to get the janitors at Harvard a raise.” All of the contestants got it right. We assume you would have, too.

• This appeared on Yahoo and Iwon today, and, while it doesn’t really constitute any new information, we thought we’d best post it to keep the e-mails down. Here ya go:

By the way, Dark Horizons is also running a piece on the flick today with similar info on Lee and Affleck, and also mentions that Joey Lauren Adams has a role written in, though Kevin’s unsure whether she’ll take it or not.

• Well, no sooner did we mention that something was coming soon that we JUST got news of this from Vincent himself. Here’s ALL the details on the upcoming VULGARTHON, to be held on Monday, October 30th! These tickets are sure to go fast, so plan on having some time set aside to sit by the phone next Sunday. Here’s the full details:

• Ironically enough, due to its purchase, “VULGAR” will NOT play at Vulgarthon this October. A condition of its pickup by Lions Gate was that it was kept under wraps by View Askew until it hits theatrically. This news comes as a result of Vincent’s post about the event, announcing that the ticket sale day announcement is coming soon…Right on schedule!

• indieWire reports that Lions Gate will platform release “VULGAR” next summer, starting in New York, LA and, of course, Red Bank, NJ. We assume that, depending on how those releases fare, the flick will go wider from there. No word yet on what cuts, if any, the film will require to receive an “R” rating, as we assume they’ll shoot for, but chances are some changes are gonna be needed. Too bad we won’t get a chance to see the film at Vulgarthon this year, as it would have been nice to catch it uncut as well as a great “test screening” of sorts with a very intrigued audience. Any chance of reconsidering, Lions Gate?

• The upcoming “View Askew 5” flick gets a very nice mention in this week’s Entertainment Weekly magazine, though we’re not sure if this specific character-related info is legitimate or not:

• Roger Ebert gives “ALMOST FAMOUS” his highest rating, 4 stars! You can read his review here.Careful, though, he usually spoils some stuff. The flick had sneak previews all over the place last night and opens wide next Friday.
• Project Greenlight, Ben Affleck & Matt Damon‘s produced-show where one lucky winner gets his or her script produced, will launch on September 25th.
• Jason Lee appeared on KROQ radio in Los Angeles this past Friday on “The Kevin & Bean Show”. He spoke for about 15 minutes on Almost Famous. He did say, when asked about working with Kevin, that he was “great with dialogue”.
• Finally today, Kevin appears in the Arts and Leisure section of this Sunday’s NY Times in an article called “Is It Theft, or Is It Freedom? 7 Views Of the Web’s Impact on Culture Clashes”. Here’s an excerpt:

We’re told the article continues over at the NY Times website, but we can’t seem to locate it. If we do, we’ll post the URL here.