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9.18.2004

The one with Dave Foley

Anyone else out there hopelessly addicted to Celebrity Poker on Bravo? Well, according to News Askew, Mirimax had a big poker party out in Las Vegas last weekend, to celebrate the re-release of Rounders. Kevin Smith, Ben Affleck, Jason Mewes, Brian O'Halloran and Scott Mosier were all playing poker against the pros, and they did well enough that
"Phil Gordon of "Celebrity Poker Showdown" said he wanted to get Mewes, Mos, O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, and me [Kevin] together on an episode. Could be fun, if I don't play like a fucking donkey."
Forget watching Maura Tierney beat Jon Favreau; how kick-ass would that be?
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# Posted by Rachel on 10:07 AM

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9.17.2004

Why do we even have that lever?

The Disney Channel is running some kind of endless loop of The Emperor's New Groove. And just in case someone out there hasn't seen this masterpiece, you must watch it immediately. This is the only funny movie Disney has done in ... well, ever, I think. Oh, there've been other Disney flicks with jokes in them, but no other movie that includes evil kittens, vindictive squirrels, chatty shoulder-angels and the voice of The Tick.

It has the line "Don't worry about it. It's not the first time I've been thrown out a window, and it won't be the last." Or the immense burn "And I never, ever, EVER liked your spinach puffs!" Or the single greatest line in all of animated linedom: "Uh, excuse me? I've been turned in to a cow. Can I go home?"

If you'll excuse me, I have to go watch it again.
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# Posted by Rachel on 9:25 PM

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9.14.2004

For Rachel

I know nothing about and honestly don't care at all about Broadway. But apparently, when Boy From Oz closed, Hugh Jackman gave Matt Damon a lapdance.

(Thanks to Margot for the heads up.)
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# Posted by Becky on 1:51 AM

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9.13.2004

Grown-up Squee

Tonight, before I bravely go to my death-by-tenth-graders, I found a particularly fabulous interview with a long-time crush of mine, Mr. Paul Bettany. (When you watch A Knight's Tale repeatedly NOT to see Heath's pretty face but to giggle at Paul's brilliance, you know you're addicted.) He's so fucking charming in every role he plays, plus he's smart, and he's funny. That's a real triple threat.

Sure, I want to see Sky Captain, but I'm dying to see Wimbledon. Not for the girly romantic part; I love love love sports movies.
"I get into a gym and there's heavy things to lift and I go, "I could do this or I could go home and read a book" and I'm out of the gym like that so, thankfully, Universal and Working Title paid this man called Mike Hood who is this toughie from Flatbush Avenue who I was genuinely scared of, and he would say "Do it" and I would go "okay" and all the notion of reading books left. It's an incredible thing really. At the gym where we were working at the time there was this poster that said, "Think less. Feel better" and I thought, "This is the most frightening sort of culture I'm getting into, the gym culture, think less and feel better." There is a certain truth to it. It's impossible to have a creative thought when you've got something really heavy about to fall on your head. I can stand and wash up and an interesting thought can occur to me. Not once have I had an interesting thought while working out. And people lie, they say, "Oh you get this sort of endorphin high" or "When I'm running I get into this sort of trance-like state." It's nonsense. It's just painful. I can look at anybody with a good body and think that they are in pain at that moment which is a really nice thought because, if you go to Tibet, there are pictures of a rather rotund man with a big smile on his face, sitting down. You don't see statues of meditative joggers, you know what I mean? It's a complete fraudulent notion."

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