Category: Shallow

Another weekend, another new crop of films to consider seeing…but how to sift through the varied options and spend your hard-earned $10.25 wisely?

Thanks to media consolidation, however, there’s a new option, one where you don’t have to spend any money at all. In fact, the studios don’t even have to spend anything either if they just make these movies with C-list stars for a D-List cable network. Big spending producers, read on and prepare to save your millions.

	The Terminal Starring Yes, Dear‘s Anthony Clark and Kyra Sedgwick
	The Stepford Wives Starring Brooke Shields
	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Starring Quintuplet‘s Ryan Pinkston, as Harry
	The Day After Tomorrow Starring 7th Heaven‘s Jeremy London, and featuring Tony Danza as his concerned father
	The Chronicles of Riddick Starring Charlie Sheen and pop/R&B star Brandy
	Before Sunset Starring Sean Astin and Neve Campbell as lovers reunited
	Troy Starring Ryan Seacrest as Achilles, and Eric Bana

Tom Hanks as Viktor Navorski…. Victor Navasky as, well, Victor Navasky
As reported here earlier, using the names of writers for movie characters is a growing pseudo imaginary trend in Hollywood. The creeping influence of literature is probably unavoidable, since screenwriters, as a group, are such a well-read lot. (A West Coast friend of ours actually called us once from Book Soup to tell us Brett Ratner was buying the collected works of Isaac Bashevis Singer—and this was way before that writer’s centennial! And, presuming the books were in Hebrew, the director even attempted to read them from back-to-front!)
Anyway, the trend continues with the release of Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal, in which pink-cheeked national treasure Tom Hanks plays a character named after pinko Nation editorial director and publisher, Victor Navasky. (This is not the first time Navasky has seen his name named on film: he’s also the nomenclatural inspiration for Greg Kinnear’s character in You’ve Got Mail.)

Slated to appear on the New York Times’ Corrections page, June 18, 2004:

Because of an editing error, an op-ed by Maureen Dowd in yesterday’s Opinion section, “Smack That Cheney-Bot!“, accidentally revealed that the Vice President is a robot. The corrected article should have merely implied this fact. The Times regrets the error.

Dubious claims made in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine:
Lest you jump to the conclusion that they attend a finishing-school where ladylike deportmant is instilled along with a wobbly grasp of the 3 R’s, both girls are ninth graders at Brearley, a Manhattan girls’ school that prides itself on its high academic standards and is renowned for producing independent-minded young women…
The Machines Men Still Want? by Daphne Merkin
Q: You’re the daughter of the novelist Alice Walker. Why did you decide to take her name instead of your father’s, who is a lawyer?
A: It’s not that important for me right now. Can we talk about something else?
Questions for Rebecca Walker by Deborah Solomon
“Andrea’s work has been about exposing the mechanism of the whole art system,” explained Dan Cameron, senior curator at the New Museum… “It underscores the paradox of ownership and pushes it into a realm that hasn’t been so pointed before.”
Sex, Art and Videotape by Guy Trebay
Now he’s releasing his first solo album, “The Slow Wonder,” under the name A.C. Newman – his initials “sound more rock, like AC/DC,” he explains – having received a grant from a Canadian foundation to record it.
Page Turner by Chris Norris
Carl Nelkin, a 43-year-old Dublin-born Jewish aviation-law consultant, has been trying to improve the situation by “marketing Ireland as a destination for Jewish people to move to.”
The Fading World of Leopold Bloom by Jonathan Wilson
“Golf is the new rock ‘n’ roll,” says Tim Southwell, editor of a new magazine called Golf Punk.
Dressed to the 9-Irons by Horacio Silva

Have You C.’n This Man?

Following up on our earlier post that asked, “What is the deal with photographers only shooting pretty girls at protests and rallies?”, here are the latest images from the G8 rallies.
Available here: one and two.