• We don’t have a full summary page dedicated to it, but here’s one scooper’s thoughts on the Towson show if you were curious on how things went. It’s actually one of the best appearance summaries we’ve ever seen:

• The Daredevil piece we spoke of earlier in the week appears in today’s Entertainment Weekly magazine. It speaks of Kev’s run on the issue (in paperback form) and gives the book a B rating.
• Live in Palm Beach, Florida and wanna be an extra in the new Jason Lee/Jennifer Love Hewitt flick, “Breakers”? Here’s the info. If ya make it, let us know!

• Online comic “Absurd Notions” throws out a small Smith reference today.

• As you probably know, Kevin’s next public appearance is on the schedule for a week from today, April the 12th. We’ve got a few more details for you now. It’s happening at Tulane University, Mcalister Auditorium, and starts at 7:30 PM with a screening of Dogma. Right after the movie, Kevin will go on (a bit after 9:30 PM). Admission is a mere 2 bucks, and trust us, it’s worth it.

You’ll hear a ton of humorous anecdotes, more than likely see the second episode of the Clerks cartoon series (though if they’re showing Dogma that will shorten Kev’s speaking time), and Kevin almost always stays after his appearances to take the time to not only sign autographs, but chat with each and every fan that’s got the patience to hang out. Be sure and pack the room!

• CORRECTION: The story we ran last update concerning Chris Rock’s online comedy bit was concerning the WB’s The God & Devil show, NOT God, The Devil, & Bob. Our mistake.
• Variety reports that, after six months of discussion, Columbia has decided to pass on developing the Daredevil movie. The flick will most likely be shopped around to other studios now. Still no involvement from Kev on this, folks, but we’ll let ya know if that changes at all. The next long-awaited issue of Marvel Knights’ DareDevil, #11, hits shelves next week.
• Speaking of the masked one, here’s some info on that Entertainment Weekly blurb on the DD paperback:

• Hotbar is a toolbar wallpaper inprovement for Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4 and up. We hear they’ve got a Dogma-related theme now. Check it out HERE.

Have a good one. Only 2 days ’til the weekend!

• Hi everyone, and welcome to another week of excitement here at News Askew! We spiced things up a bit with the weekend April Fool’s Day joke, which was a blast (By the way, if you missed it, you can still view the “modified” page HERE, and a page full of responses we got concerning the joke HERE).

In addition to that, we’ve got a new post from Kevin today which acknowledges the distrubingly quiet times in View Askew-land lately, with a promise to change all that soon. He also mentions the Towson show tonight (Which we FINALLY have a bit of info on, sorry for not getting it here sooner).

Other than that little chunk of news, though, just a couple newsbites and we’ll call it a day. Here we go:

• Well it’s nothing major, just a check-in to let everyone know he’s still alive and waiting for something to happen as much as we are. Here’s the latest from Kevin himself:

• We’ve been getting tons of mail on this the past few days (nothing like waiting ’til the last minute, ‘eh?), but we’ve finally got the information on the appearance tonight: It’s in a building called Stephen’s Hall (on York Road), starts at 7:00 PM, free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30. Sorry this information comes so late in the game, but it seems that it was next to impossible to find anyone at Towson that could actually share this much insight. Have fun!

• An April 2nd New York Times article on Hip-Hop found HERE opens with a Dogma mention. Here’s the paragraph pertaining to the flick:

• Those “Indie” trading cards we mentioned a while back are featured in scans online at TNT Roughcut’s website now. You can view Kev’s card and more HERE.
• Chris Rock is featred in a short lampooning the ill-fated show “God, The Devil, & Bob”. You can find the animated piece on the WB site. Rock’s voice is slated to appear on the big screen in the animated “Osmosis Jones”, and we hope that Bill Murray signs to play the live-action actor whose body the film’s creatures inhabit [Word has it Murray would eat a bad meatball which starts all the problems. Classic stuff].
• Check out the latest Entertainment Weekly for a review of the Daredevil: Visionaries trade paperback. We’ll post a transcript as soon as we receive one or their website posts it.
• Oni Press will be releasing a collection of Clerks comic artist Jim Mahfood’s “Stupid Comics,” his newspaper strip, along with brand new comics exclusive to the collection.

• Thanks to the Sundance Channel, we have received an early screening copy of Conversations In World Cinema featuring Kevin Smith which airs later this month! The special is quite good, though TOO short! 30 minutes just isn’t enough when we’re accustomed to 4 hour marathon Kev appearances at colleges and stuff (in fact, you can tell they had to edit things down to fit in the half hour, as we’re sure he talked longer). At any rate they make the most of their time for sure. The first 5-10 minutes of the show focus on Kev’s history (he even talks a bit about his trip up to NYC to see ‘Slacker’, his inspirational film), then the remainder of the program is a subdued one on one, focusing on the film aspect and not a lot of the usual silly questions you hear over and over again. It’s very refreshing. The audience (obviously composed of film students of some sort) asked a couple questions at the end relating to directing and camera movement.

“Join Richard Pena of the Film Society of Lincoln Center in a witty conversation with the always provocative filmmaker as her discusses God, comic books and New Jersey. May 11 9:00 PM, 4:00 AM; 15 12:30 PM, 8:00 PM, 5:35 AM; 21 5:30 PM, 1:00 AM; 23 11:05 AM, 10:30 PM; 26 1:35 PM, 10:30 PM; 31 10:00 AM.”

Thanks to the Sundance Channel for providing us with an early look at this special, the most recent television interview with Kevin to date.

• Well, by now we’ve amused, infuriated, or confused just about all of you…At least those of ya that visited News Askew on April 1st…APRIL FOOL’S DAY! Yep, we got ya. Well, some of ya. Ah, if you could only have seen the mailboxes here today. Over 300 letters of thanks, complaint, concern…It was certainly NOT a quiet day around here by any stretch!

Anyway, for those of you that missed it, in good fun, we decided to change the entire front page look of this site to a P.T. Anderson fan site, with a full update. You can see what it looked like by clicking HERE. In the process, we managed to get a HUGE reaction, a lot more than we expected. We’ve compiled some of the best and most interesting responses for ya on a subpage, just in case you’d like to check out what your fellow View Askew peers thought of our little joke. As you can see, there was quite a range of responses.

At any rate rest assured that we wrote to ask everyone who was angry to come back tomorrow, just to make sure that we didn’t lose any regular readers, so the damage should be minimal. In the end, we had a great time setting up the joke, and we hope that you all have the sense of humor to have enjoyed it, at least now, even if we had ya going good yesterday. Of course you liked it, you’re View Askew fans!