Believe it or not, the last person we’d expect to perpetuate the Terry Gilliam Curse recently landed in the emergency room: Verne Troyer, soon to be seen as Mike Myers’ tiny bad-joke magnet in The Love Guru, was reportedly dispatched to a hospital outside Vancouver while shooting Gilliam’s near-doomed Heath Ledger project The Imaginarium of [...]
Apr
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Terry Gilliam Curse Tempted Once Again as ‘Dehydrated’ Verne Troyer Rushed to Hospital [Health And Wellness]
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Apr
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Ben Silverman Is Bringing ‘Saturday Night Live’ To Thursdays [Spin-Off City]
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Wunderdouche Ben Silverman unveiled NBC’s ambitious 65-week schedule to advertisers today in New York, covering this summer and all of next year with wall-to-wall Steve McPherson ass-kicking action. Included in the programming onslaught: a dreaded Office spin-off and four weeks of primetime Saturday Night Live, Variety reports.
The Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-ization of [...]
Apr
3
It’s My First Day [A Call To The Bullpen]
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Apr
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Would-Be Hitman Anthony Pellicano Just Wants His Offers To Kill Quoted Accurately [Pellicano Notebook]
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The Anthony Pellicano saga accidentally became interesting again when a disgruntled hedge-funder testifying Tuesday in the private investigator’s wiretapping trial recounted that one time Pellicano offered to whack a producer who ran off with his money. After a $1.1 million investment with talent agent-turned-producer Aaron Russo resulted in exactly no movies and a full year [...]
Apr
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Step Aside, Diablo, And Let Daniel Waters Show You What ‘Different’ Looks Like [Everything But The Kitchen Sink]
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It seems that Heathers writer Daniel Waters is shoring up his cult following in the wake of Diablo Cody, Brad Ingelsby and newly crowned “it” scribe Tollbooth Guy. In a Los Angeles Times profile hailing his return, Waters digs deep and delivers the johnny-come-latelies a clear message: just because you wrote Hudson Hawk and Demolition [...]