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Why MySpace Is Happy To Be Insulted By Adam Sandler
3:02AM Ryan Tate | Social networking is for lonely, psychotic shut-ins. Or at least that’s the upshot of the jokes in the attached clip from Adam Sandler vehicle Funny People. And still MySpace apparently cooperated with the filmmakers; its co-founder and logo appear. More »
Discuss: Universal Paid Seven Figures For Jonah Hill’s New Script
7:55AM STV | No one will confirm it, and considering the secrecy around the project, Universal may never disclose the rumoured seven-figure price tag accompanying its deal for Jonah Hill’s new screenplay Adventurer’s Handbook. Still — seven figures? More »
8 Dos and Dont’s For Making the Perfect Celebrity PSA
8:31AM STV | We’re 15 days away from arguably the most culturally charged election of the last 50 years, and it’s not just David Letterman’s outrage or Sarah Palin’s SNL cameos moving the needle. In fact, the celebrity PSA crop of 2008 is as ripe as it’s ever been — literally so, in fact, with every encouraging offering on the air giving way to three or four smug, pretentious, condescending or otherwise botched campaigns elsewhere. It happens every four years, as sure as the primaries; just when we think we’d seen it bottom out, along come Leonardo Di Caprio, Blake Lively, Carlos Mencia to knock us back to the Clinton era.
Activist Jonah Hill Has 19 Kids, ‘Never Used Abortion Once’
6:55AM STV | Having already given up any hope of Jessica Alba and Hayden Panitierre’s muzzled tryst persuading young people to get out the vote, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way Productions this week corralled an ensemble including Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Forest Whitaker, Dustin Hoffman, Halle Berry and scads of others to keep up the fight via reverse psychology. “Don’t vote,” they implore to America’s youth, none more so than Jonah Hill, whose exhortations “The economy’s in the toilet. Who gives a shit? I don’t care — I’ve got so much money” and “I’ve never fought a war on drugs; I’ve never done shit on drugs besides played Halo 2” have stirred nearly 300,000 viewers since yesterday. We pass it along to you (after the jump) as a public service of our own whether you’ve already heard the message or plan to vote or not, if only because it never gets old hearing Hill share such intimate ideology. Particularly the part about his 19 kids — who knew? [YouTube] More »
Judd Apatow, Adam Sandler and Others End Surprisingly Bootleg-Free ‘Funny People’ Rehearsals
5:45AM STV | We’re more than a little disappointed to find that nobody has yet uploaded any video, audio or any record whatsoever of Adam Sandler, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen or Kevin James’s stand-up sessions last Saturday at UCB. The quartet was concluding rehearsals MC Judd Apatow’s forthcoming comedian opus Funny People, insights into which we’d gone all the way to Canada to retrieve as recently as July. Then we miss one night in Franklin Village and it’s radio silence. Folks, step it up. We’re serious. It’s not a Beatles reunion or anything, but if we have to read abstractly about Hill biting it or Rogen defaulting to his imaginative zenith of aeroplane flatus, there’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to see or hear it in all its stumbling, meandering glory: More »
Diablo Cody and Seth Rogen Late Additions to ‘Upstart Screenwriter Clout Day’
9:00AM Defamer Hollywood | It turns out we may have attributed the day’s Screenwriter Dream Come True to Justin Theroux too soon — we hadn’t yet browsed the news that Steven Spielberg anointed Diablo Cody to adapt another one of his stories as a comedy for DreamWorks, and we hadn’t heard Seth Rogen’s indirect riposte to the idea that he and his colleagues should deign to working with… well, he just tells the story better: More »
Planned ‘21 Jump Street’ Revival Brings Jonah Hill Closer Than Ever to Heartthrob Status
4:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Now that we’ve confirmed their likenesses beyond any reasonable doubt, the only thing left to wonder about Jonah Hill’s planned feature adaptation of 21 Jump Street is whether or not he can pull off Johnny Depp’s smoldering charm as Officer Tom Hanson, the undercover cop whose high-school crime-fighting exploits lasted four hit seasons on Fox in the late ’80s. Sony, which is handling the movie version, confirmed only to Entertainment Weekly that Hill has been hired to write and executive produce; he has not officially been cast in any role, but if Depp’s shoes indeed prove too sizable for Hill, there’s always the Peter DeLuise part. Or, if he’s feeling a particular lack of ambition, he could try Richard Grieco’s doomed Dennis Booker. More »Short Ends: More Trailer Leakage: Indy’s Back! (Again.)
8:30AM Seth | We continue with today’s theme of leaked, bootlegged trailers of the summer’s most anticipated blockbusters with the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, set to premiere before screenings of Iron Man this Friday. Dare we say, it’s a vast improvement over the first. Indy’s back, everyone! No, seriously. Indy’s back—it just gave out on him. Medic! [indianajones.com] Is “closet chef” Jake Gyllenhaal planning on opening his own restaurant before he turns 30? Sign us up for one Dreamy-Eyed Tasting Menu with Naggy Girlfriend Wine Flight! [Big Hospitality] Good news: Roger Waters’s pig has been found! Bad news: In pieces. Good news: Bacon for everyone! Bad news: It tastes like polyurethane. [MyDesert.com] Is Transformers 2 about to get a much-needed injection of menstrual-blood humour? One can only hope. [Cinematical] Hey—dogs into unicorns! [Archie McPhee]
Which Celebrity Herb-Lovers Tell All In New Pot Tome, Man?
8:00AM Molly Friedman | Thanks to Judd Apatow’s loveable stoner humour and the mass excitement caused by the impending Harold and Kumar sequel, it seems that pot and pot-loving celebs are inching closer and closer to mainstream acceptance. But news of which stars contributed tips to celebrity stoner lit’s latest entry, Pot Culture, has us harkening back to the days when Bob Dylan and Woody Harrelson gave long-winded interviews to High Times. Though the names aren’t exactly A-list, the pieces of advice on how to get merrily mellow are far more creative than any pothead logic we’ve ever heard. Find out who lays out DIY instructions on how to construct your own gravity bong, who demonstrates the always-reliable apple bong technique, and who gets away with lying to their husband about her toking habit by covering up the smell with lip gloss after the jump. More »
