Month: February 2004

Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)… The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003)

I know what you’re thinking: How will you live without Sex and the City?
Better, probably. And with more laughs, too. But for those of you who can’t get enough of SaTC and want more than the easy to swallow (har har) half-hour doses you get on cable, you can start waiting on line now for the big screen version. (As if each episode didn’t already feel two hours long.)
In the meantime, print out these photos and place them in your wallet if you love the show so much.

Sarah Jessica Parker on Square Pegs

Cynthia Nixon in Little Darlings

Kim Cattrall in Porky’s
Not Pictured: Kristin Davis, who was born fully-grown.

Pink kicks off her European tour… Wez kicks ass in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

I’m just as surprised as you are that one of the most incisive critiques of hip hop capitalism would come from MAD Magazine, but it’s a crazy world, right?
On newsstands this month, The Lords of the Bling movie poster. I was sad that there wasn’t room for Farnsworth Bentley as Samwise Gamgee (“Mr. Diddy, look out for that giant spider!”), but it’s pretty perfect as it is.
Related: Black Book has Jay-Z on the cover of it’s special “Bourgeois” issue, also out this month. (Coincidentally, Hova’s upcoming MTV books/Pocket Books memoir is also titled Black Book.)

America, you’re gonna love the little midget!
Michael Eisner‘s month just got a little worse, but every bad comedy writers’ has just gotten better: Jeffrey Katzenberg may star in a Los Angeles-based version of The Apprentice for CBS.
That should bring some seriousness and dignity to DreamWorks after this week’s release of Euro Trip.
Two words, Jeff: Project Greenlight.
[via TV Tattle]

“Replicas of the nails used to hang Jesus on the cross have become the red-hot official merchandise linked to Mel Gibson’s controversial new movie,The Passion of the Christ.” — ‘JESUS’ NAIL SALE, by William Neuman, The New York Post, Feb. 19, 2004
Anyone remember the old Bill Hicks routine about how pissed off Jesus would be if He came back and saw all His followers wearing crucifixes? Like He wants to see one of those ever again.
This is probably the worst movie tie-in since the official Exorcist crucifixes or the Elephant Man pillowcases.
[Photo courtesy of The New York Post]

Newly chatty Billy Corgan tells all about the demise of Smashing
Pumpkins (photo Dec. 2, 2000)

Clint Howard as Balok on Star Trek (“The Corbomite Maneuver,” Nov. 1966)

‘Mister Ed’ gets a new voice

LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter)—Sherman Hemsley of “The Jeffersons” fame is lending his voice to the title character in Fox’s updated version of “Mister Ed.”
Hemsley joins David Alan Basche, who was previously tapped to play Wilbur Post, and Sherilyn Fenn, tapped as Wilbur’s wife.
“Mister Ed” is a remake of the 1960s talking-horse sitcom. This time around, the equine title character has an urban sensibility.

How “urban” can a show about a talking horse be? Is Mr. Ed one of those inner-city horses we see all the time nowadays?
And what the hell happened to Sherilyn Fenn? First she played Pacey‘s Mrs. Robinson-esque boss/stalker on Dawson’s Creek and now she’s playing opposite a horse? What did Audrey Horn do to deserve this? I almost regret having had a crush on her when I was 14.
[via TV Tattle]