On behalf of the entire low culture team, I wanna thank everyone who voted for us!
This is so awesome, I don’t know what to say. I wish I’d prepared something. Basicially, we’re just a bunch of goofy guys doing our own thing: it makes us really proud that people are enjoying it so much. We gotta share this award with all of you!
We never thought we’d win an award, but just because it’s not your dream doesn’t mean it can’t come true.
Next year: World’s Greatest Lover!
Earlier: Aim High, Vote low (culture, Duh)
Author: matt
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Seth Green as Joe, Radio Days.
Physical Appearance: Tiny, boyish |
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John Cusack as David Shayne, Bullets Over Broadway.
Physical Appearance: Bespectacled, stubbled, handsome. |
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Edward Norton as Holden Spence, Everyone Says I Love You.
Physical Appearance: Slight, thinning hair, poorly dressed. |
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Kenneth Branagh as Lee Simon, Celebrity.
Physical Appearance: Bearded, handsome, given to tweeds. |
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Jason Biggs as Jerry Falk, Anything Else.
Physical Appearance: Small, twitchy, unattractive. |
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Will Ferrell as Hobie, Melinda and Melinda.
Physical Appearance: Tall, oddly attractive. |
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Somebody Up There Likes Dean
Howard Dean, March 9, 2005 (via Reuters)
But does anybody down here?
NB: That’s a rhetorical question. Please use comments to debate the following: Dogs are better than cats.
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Michael/Michelle
Come on, Michael.
Michelle Malkin ditched that look weeks ago.
[via Reuters]
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Am I Excited About This Film? Can’t Say.
From Done Deal:
Title: Unknown
Log Line: Being kept under wraps.
Writer: Darby Parker and Matt Waynee
Agent: Jon Huddle and Shaun Redick of ICM
Buyer: GreeneStreet Films
Price: n/a
Genre: Thriller
Logged: 3/8/05
More: Rick Lashbrook, John S. Schwartz, and Stronghold Entertainment’s Darby Parker will produce. Simon Brand will direct. GreeneStreet will handle foreign sales. Jim Caviezel, Greg Kinnear, Joe Pantoliano, Bridget Moynahan, Jeremy Sisto and Peter Stormare will star. This film will be independently financed.
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Daddy’s Little Churl
President Bush and CIA director Porter Goss, March 3, 2005 (above, via Reuters); Former president George H. W. Bush, circa 1976 (below, via, True Conspiracy Links ).
Milk makes Kofi go down easier. Milk helps makes me strong, so I can resist namby-pamby international coalitions. You need sturdy bones and teeth to go it alone in a world full of terrorists and assorted enemies. Chock full of calcium, milk helps make me more powerful than all those malnourished Third World famine babies and their communist and/or terrorist leanings.
Milk, it does a body politic good. (via Reuters)
Zap! George W. Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, from November 2004 (via AFP)
Last week, low culture presented “Be Excellent to Each Other: A One Act Play,” in which fictional versions of the actors Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter discussed their lives and careers.
At the time of that writing, we had no idea that Missy Schwartz, a writer for Entertainment Weekly, one of the nation’s most respected and highly regarded weekly entertainment magazines that focuses on entertainment and comes out on a weekly basis, was working on a “Deal Report” column about Alex Winter (with additional reporting by Geoff Keighley, Michelle Kung, and Adam B. Vary):
Remember Alex Winter? He was Bill to Keanu Reeves‘ Ted. Now he’s set to write Napster: The Shawn Fanning Bio Project for Paramount/MTV Films. Winter penned a version of the script as a TV movie in ’03, but the story of the college dropout who developed music-file-sharing was so rich that Paramount decided to make it a feature. It’s about “a punk kid with a lightning-bolt moment,” says Winter, “who takes that dream into the shark-infested deep end of the big-business world and then has the whole thing blow up in his face.” Winter also plans to direct Acts of Charity, an indie political satire with Alan Rickman, this year. Excellent! (Entertainment Weekly, March 11, 2005.)
Had we known that Entertainment Weekly was working on this story, we would’ve instead focused on Curtis Armstrong, one of America’s greatest character actors who is back from his post-Revenge of the Nerds exile with roles in Dodgeball, Ray, and Man of the House. (The latter of which is out now.)
We would’ve written a gag intro hailing a familiar but semi-unknown actor who’s worked with “greats” like Tom Cruise, John Cusack, and Bruce Willis then thrown in Steve Guttenberg to be funny, before launching into a short, pithy piece that argued, far from being a relic of the 80’s (we’d mention Bronson Pinchot here), Armstrong’s been working more or less steadily since the days of Duran Duran (a slightly decontextualized reference that would nonetheless ground the piece in a certain time period). We would’ve concluded by suggesting that one day (god willing), Armstrong might be the first Oscar winner to ever have a character named Booger on his resume.
low culture regrets the error.
Earlier: New York Second;
Twentieth Century Fox, meet award-winning director Chris Cunningham.
Related: Paramount/MTV Taking a Napster
