News: July 2006 Archives

Oliver Stone's World Trade Center is, according to one columnist, “one of the greatest pro-American, pro-family, pro-faith, pro-male, flag-waving, God Bless America films you will ever see.” The New York Times on Paramount's outreach campaign to conservatives. In a nutshell: Paramount recruited the guys who brought you the John Kerry Swift Boat campaign to promote WTC. It's not being aggressively pitched to liberals, according to the Times, because Paramount figured "the entertainment press had covered that base." Heh.

Cardinal rule of movie-going: shut your fucking mouth while the movie’s playing.

Kevin Smith takes Joel Siegel to task for walking out midway through a screening of Clerks II. Smith manages to get Siegel on the phone, on the radio, and rips into him. (There's a link to an MP3, which is uncomfortable enough to make the whole hubbub a little bit interesting, at the bottom of the post linked above.) God only knows why Siegel stays on the line -- stammering out a half-hearted defense of his apparently noisy departure -- once it dawns on him exactly what's happening.