I look at this as Seann's opportunity to go to the (Tom) Hanks level. Hanks for years and years did this (lesser) role and then he became that (blockbuster movie) guy. This is Seann's chance to do that as well, not just be Stifler. And it's my chance to not just be the "Clerks" guy. It's my chance to do something big, epic in scale. Stories I tell span one day. … This spans 30 years. You're talking a period. You're trying to bring people to a time in your life that hasn't existed in 30 years. The look of it, the feel of it, the sound of it -- everything I have is going to be in that movie.Whatever of interest happens on ice and snow tonight, we can talk about it here.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
WHAT ELSE IS A FARM BOY FROM CANADA TO DO? On the eve of tonight's glorious #crushthecanucks (and ice dancing and other stuff) Olympic bonanza, Kevin Smith has revealed that Seann William Scott will play the lead role of Buddy in his film adaptation of Warren Zevon's "Hit Somebody." Said Smith:
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Call me when they make a Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner movie.
ReplyDeleteWe covered some of that ground in May 2009 when this project was announced.
ReplyDeleteEven before Hanks became "Tom Hanks, Icon," (which I'd mark as 1992-93 with Sleepless in Seattle, League of Their Own, and Philadelphia), he was delivering interesting performances--"Big," "Splash," "Dragnet." Seann William Scott's finest performance is probably as comic sidekick in "The Rundown."
ReplyDeleteNow that as a great hockey game!
ReplyDeleteDamn straight. That's the craziest game I've seen since my Sega NHL Hockey '94 days.
ReplyDeleteI got a phone call during the Canadian ice dancing performance, and so ended up catching only some of it, and with the sound off. Was it really better than the Davis & White Bollywood performance? I thought that the Davis and White performance was fantastic---even better than nationals. What I saw of the Canadian performance looked good, but I did not get to see enough of it to say for sure.
ReplyDeleteI'm livid that NONE of the hockey game was on NBC! My bad for assuming it would be part of tonight's coverage, especially once it was so close at the end! I saw the tweets and ran down to watch what had happened on my TiVo, only to discover that NBC ran the last <span>30 seconds </span>of play, and then spent <span>20 minutes </span>talking about what a brilliant game it was. C'mon!!! Idiots. Jeeze, you think you might want to show at least the last 5 minutes of a 4-3 US/Canada match in CANADA! I dont' know how I missed that MSNBC had olympics coverage, but I had. I'm off to check the schedule to see if anything else cool will be on that network. i bet that's where they've been burying the curling. ARG!
ReplyDeleteJenn... I realize I'm totally biased (being Canadian, and all that), but I would honestly give the edge to Virtue and Moir. It was an incredibly *dramatic* piece (the music is stunning) that Davis and White's number, by its nature, just couldn't match. There was likely a *bit* of score-boosting caused by the pro-Canada audience at Pacific Coliseum, but not that much. Both teams were amazing... and are rightly ranked 1-2 going into the free dance.
ReplyDeleteLou, curling has been buried on CNBC. On the positive side, they've been showing matches in their entirety every night.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree. I enjoyed both the American teams and went in rooting for them, but the Candian dance was amazing. They absolutely deserve to be in first place right now.
ReplyDeleteWhat's funny is that they showed only the last 30 seconds of the hockey game, but they spent about two hours on the Super Combined, which as far as I could tell was taped in two sessions beginning at 9:30 and noonish. So they refuse to show tape-delayed hockey, but insist on showing tape-delayed skiing.
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