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Re: The Movie Thread
« Reply #1620 on: July 05, 2010, 09:16:22 PM »
a movie I've been wanting to see forever -- Marty Feldman's In God We Trust -- is making a rare cable appearance on (of all places) HBO's Family channel, this afternoon at 4:45.  It was Feldman's 1980 directorial debut, a satire of religion (also featuring Andy Kaufman, Louise Lasser and Richard Pryor as God!) that was barely released by Universal, whose execs hated it so much they terminated Feldman's contract.  I'm psyched.

I am 90% sure I saw that on HBO in 1980-81: we were the first family in the neighborhood to have the channel, and I vividly remember watching such fare as Scanners and The Rose (and Sgt. Pepper!).  Alas, all I remember are the promos, not the film itself.  Feldman was hard to fathom at 8.

It wasn't great but some of it was quite funny and anything that lampoons religion is OK by me. The story persists that Universal deep-sixed it because of that aspect. And apparently it's never been issued on DVD.
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« Reply #1621 on: July 13, 2010, 09:08:58 AM »
Now HERE'S a remake I can get behind: Oh, God! with Betty White as the deity and Paul Rudd in the John Denver role.

http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/divine-inspiration-warner-bros-pitched-betty-white-for-oh-god-remake/#more-53265
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« Reply #1622 on: July 13, 2010, 10:12:08 PM »
Now HERE'S a remake I can get behind: Oh, God! with Betty White as the deity and Paul Rudd in the John Denver role.

http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/divine-inspiration-warner-bros-pitched-betty-white-for-oh-god-remake/#more-53265

I would swoon if this were to happen - I *adore* Rudd.

But I hate to imagine people tweeting "Think God" ad infinitum in a modernized version.
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« Reply #1623 on: July 14, 2010, 10:34:10 AM »
Attn Gaz: Micky Dolenz joins Tiffany and Debbie Gibson in new TV horror film
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/here-he-comes-micky-dolenz-joins-tiffany-and-deborah-gibson-in-horror-movie/

He was also on Capitol Hill, lobbying for artist royalties bill.  Includes video:
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2010/06/monkee-ing_on_capitol_hill.html
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« Reply #1624 on: July 19, 2010, 08:34:55 AM »
Amy Adams to play Janis Joplin in long-awaited biopic?  I like her as an actress (Junebug, Enchanted, Doubt, Sunshine Cleaning, Julie & Julia), but many question the casting.  She must have impressed the producers.  Maybe she can pull it off?
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/07/19/should-amy-adams-play-janis-joplin/
http://www.examiner.com/x-27339-Cincinnati-Pop-Culture-Examiner~y2010m7d18-Amy-Adams-among-the-list-of-names-to-possibly-play-legendary-Janis-Joplin-videos

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« Reply #1625 on: July 19, 2010, 04:40:54 PM »
Amy Adams to play Janis Joplin in long-awaited biopic?  I like her as an actress (Junebug, Enchanted, Doubt, Sunshine Cleaning, Julie & Julia), but many question the casting.  She must have impressed the producers.  Maybe she can pull it off?
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/07/19/should-amy-adams-play-janis-joplin/
http://www.examiner.com/x-27339-Cincinnati-Pop-Culture-Examiner~y2010m7d18-Amy-Adams-among-the-list-of-names-to-possibly-play-legendary-Janis-Joplin-videos

Wow, so how many actresses/singers does that make who have been named to be playing Joplin on the big screen? I honestly can't recall them all, but I know how many have actually made it to release: 0.  (That's assuming you don't count Bette Midler's star turn in The Rose, which was based partially on Joplin but heavily fictionalized.)
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« Reply #1626 on: July 20, 2010, 08:50:01 AM »
Kurt Cobain biopic in the works.  Sounds interesting, though Robert Pattinson would be a total miscast.  I'm thinking Jared Leto would be a better choice.  

http://www.nme.com/movies/news/biopic-of-nirvanas-kurt-cobain-will-be-raw-and-ch/179962

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« Reply #1627 on: July 20, 2010, 12:32:52 PM »
Bill Murray talks to Rotten Tomatoes about Ghostbusters 3:

"There was a story—and I gotta be careful here, I don't want to hurt someone's feelings. When I hurt someone's feelings, I really want to hurt them. [laughs] Harold Ramis said, Oh, I've got these guys, they write on The Office, and they're really funny. They're going to write the next Ghostbusters. And they had just written this movie that he had directed, Year One. Well, I never went to see Year One, but people who did, including other Ghostbusters, said it was one of the worst things they had ever seen in their lives. So that dream just vaporized. That was gone. But it's the studio that really wants this thing. It's a franchise. It's a franchise, and they made a whole lot of money on Ghostbusters.  And it's still one of the biggest movies of all time. And ever since that story broke, everywhere I go people are like, 'So are you gonna make that movie?' I was down in Austin at South by Southwest, and you go at it hard down there—fun but, man, you need to sleep for days afterwards. Anyhow, I got into it one night with a bunch of younger people who were like, Oh, I love Peter Venkman! I grew up with Peter Venkman! We got to talking, and the more we talked about it, the more I thought, Oh Christ, I should just do this thing."



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Re: The Movie Thread
« Reply #1628 on: July 20, 2010, 01:24:48 PM »
Kurt Cobain biopic in the works.  Sounds interesting, though Robert Pattinson would be a total miscast.  I'm thinking Jared Leto would be a better choice.  

http://www.nme.com/movies/news/biopic-of-nirvanas-kurt-cobain-will-be-raw-and-ch/179962

How about Courtney Love in drag playing Kurt?  after all, I think she always wanted to be him.  Then we can get Sandra Bernhardt in a blond wig to be Courtney.
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« Reply #1629 on: July 20, 2010, 02:42:26 PM »
Kurt Cobain biopic in the works.  Sounds interesting, though Robert Pattinson would be a total miscast.  I'm thinking Jared Leto would be a better choice.  

http://www.nme.com/movies/news/biopic-of-nirvanas-kurt-cobain-will-be-raw-and-ch/179962

How about Courtney Love in drag playing Kurt?  after all, I think she always wanted to be him.  Then we can get Sandra Bernhardt in a blond wig to be Courtney.

I think Courtney wanted to be Nancy Spungen (aim high, girl - aim high!)  Sandra Bernhardt would be a good Courtney, but if Kirstie Alley lost a few pounds, she could be in the running too.

Looky who's fighting to play Elizabeth Taylor in her biopic...
http://www.nme.com/movies/news/angelina-jolie-and-catherine-zeta-jones-battling-for/179814

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« Reply #1630 on: July 20, 2010, 02:45:42 PM »
Kurt Cobain biopic in the works.  Sounds interesting, though Robert Pattinson would be a total miscast.  I'm thinking Jared Leto would be a better choice.  

http://www.nme.com/movies/news/biopic-of-nirvanas-kurt-cobain-will-be-raw-and-ch/179962

How about Courtney Love in drag playing Kurt?  after all, I think she always wanted to be him.  Then we can get Sandra Bernhardt in a blond wig to be Courtney.

I think Courtney wanted to be Nancy Spungen (aim high, girl - aim high!)  Sandra Bernhardt would be a good Courtney, but if Kirstie Alley lost a few pounds, she could be in the running too.

Looky who's fighting to play Elizabeth Taylor in her biopic...
http://www.nme.com/movies/news/angelina-jolie-and-catherine-zeta-jones-battling-for/179814

If Kirstie Alley DOESN'T lose a few (dozen) pounds, she could play old fat Liz!  But Russell Crowe as Richard Burton -- that'd be perfect!
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« Reply #1631 on: July 20, 2010, 09:45:49 PM »
if Kirstie Alley lost a few pounds, she could be in the running too.

And if she could be into running, she could lose a few pounds.
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« Reply #1632 on: July 22, 2010, 11:36:31 AM »
More biopics: Jerry Garcia Biopic Gets Script, Director (so who should play him?)
http://www.spinner.com/2010/07/22/jerry-garcia-biopic/

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« Reply #1633 on: July 22, 2010, 11:39:13 AM »
More biopics: Jerry Garcia Biopic Gets Script, Director (so who should play him?)
http://www.spinner.com/2010/07/22/jerry-garcia-biopic/

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« Reply #1634 on: July 22, 2010, 11:41:14 AM »
More biopics: Jerry Garcia Biopic Gets Script, Director (so who should play him?)
http://www.spinner.com/2010/07/22/jerry-garcia-biopic/

this seems an odd project, in that it's about his PRE-Dead days. How many people wanna see a Jerry movie without GD songs in it? This post on boston.com suggests Edward Norton, tho' he might be getting a bit old to play a 24-year old.

http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/blog/2008/11/cryptical_devel.html
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