Nothing’s Lost Forever
A SAG-sack returns, two beauties team up for impossibly beautiful lovemaking, Up graces Cannes, Kevin Costner is back, and so is Behind the Music.
Bradley Jane Pitt and Natalie Portman will be starring in a romantic comedy together, based on the book Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewellery. Then a sunset and a sunrise will do a movie with a forty word title and we’ll be forced to argue forever about which one starred the more beautiful things and had the most annoying name. [Variety] Kevin Costner is still working. So that’s something. [Variety]
Are you ready for a boy version of Splash? Too bad. Brian Grazer is producing a new movie called Merman that is about just such an abomination. Keep a close eye out for Darryl Hannah in one scene. She’s that extra, all blurry in the background, weeping. [Variety] Speaking of weeping, poor sad former SAG exec Doug Allen, who was fired two months ago, popped back up on the picket lines yesterday. After he wandered around for awhile, distractedly eating a hot dog and faintly humming a song no one could identify, someone finally asked what he was doing there. “I heard that some of my friends were here,” he told them (foreal). Everyone felt bad for him and let him hold a sign but afterwards when everyone went to go get beers together, they told him they were all just going home. [Variety]
Disney/Pixar’s fancy new computer movie Up is set to open the Festival de Cannes, that humble little film festival that happens every May, going mostly unnoticed, down in the south of France. [THR] In the realm of actually small, actually important news, the husband of Adrienne Shelly, the New York-based Waitress filmmaker who was murdered two years ago, is producing a finished screenplay she left behind, a decades-spanning family drama called The Morgan Stories. [THR]
VH1 is kicking aside the pile of bottles, cans, and dead groupies to pick up one of their old standbys. The network is reviving its former flagship series Behind the Music, with Lil’ Wayne and Lil’ Scott Weiland already set to appear. Oh goody. Don’t you want to know more about what happens behind the music of, say, … (The sad/funny thing about this is that I was trying to come up with a joke about some current music star. But then I couldn’t think of any because I have no idea what the kids are listening to anymore. So, I’ll just leave it hear. A sad, sorry blank.) [THR]
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Behind The Music: Lil' Wayne. Please. Stop the madness. Who wants to see some no-talent piece of trash try to mumble about how difficult it is being a no-talent piece of trash through the extravagantly expensive diamondoid encrusted dental appliance he feels necessary to expose to the world on a daily basis?
Ew. Ew, ew, ew, ew, ewwww. I'd rather TiVo an entire season of Rock Of Love: Bret Michaels' Complete History of Venereal Diseases I Have Known.
Yeah but no but yeah
@TheSometimesWhy: I wholeheartedly agree. I just read the Nikki Finke post(I know, I know) about the haul that Hollywood is making this year and last as well as the amount of money that sites like Hulu have made. Give the guy a break for actually standing up for people who just want what's due them for work that's been done. Or I guess we could just let Hollywood moguls use people however they want and make tons of money off them. This is America after all.
An Fleming
I still don't get it--what did Doug Allen ever do besides try to arm SAG with the only weapon it had against the producers by ratifying the OPTION TO STRIKE, should it have been deemed necessary? He gets banged harder than a $20 hooker at Sexaholics Anonymous convention at this site. If anything, SAG's struggles in the wake of his ouster lend a lot of credence to the notion that Doug Allen wasn't wrong in his stance. His "militancy" was their only chance in a fight where the deck was rigged.
Any thoughts from the peanut gallery?
If his tail is CGI I will lose it.
I love all things half-fish, half-human...(as long as the top-half is human.
TillieHarper
Behind the Music is back? Awesome!! Let the band from humble beginnings/instant fame/rampant drug use/group sex/seething resentment of lead singer/dismemberment of band member while high as a kite/road to recovery/redemption arc begin!!
OrneryBabe
Are you sure "Merman" isn't a biopic of Ethel Merman?
VeasnaDione
From Waterworld to Merman - I seer the connection
"IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL SWIM"
NoGrumpys
i thought for sure that kevin costner's comeback was going to be in merman, how disappointing...
pattycakes
Adrienne Shelly's husband is a grade-A dickbag, I'd like to point out. I fully expect a response from him on this post - he apparently spends a lot of time on the internet monitoring everybody's postings about anything and everything his wife ever did. He actually wrote nasty emails to reviewers who didn't like "Waitress."
Perhaps Not
I like how the Variety photo editors found shots of both Costner and Jones sporting soul patches.
Good work, Var Eds.
SugartitsMcFirecrotch
"Behind The Music: Scott Weiland" will at least be full of drug abuse and broken marriages. Good times!
REZPECT
Is Ethel still acting?
What exactly is this movie "Mermaid" you're referring to? Did you mean "Splash"?
Jaffa Cakes
First there's bird people and now Mermen? It really does sound like the creative line-up of someone sitting around with s'hrooms.
Spirit Fingers
"It's Merman, Merman!" Derek runs and answers his phone, wondering if it's God.
Just finished watching Harper's scene on the airplane. Wonderful, wonderful stuff.
ConroyStevenson
Zac Efron would be a perfect Merboi.
@Perhaps Not: I feel left out. I completely panned Waitress, and I didn't hear anything from him. If that was a little movie that could, I'm Edmund Wilson.
regisgoat
What was the name of that TV show with the beauty and the beast concept - first picture in this post?????
kkatt