Drew Barrymore Would Love to Meet You Too
Incidentally, one of the best things about Whip It is Andrew Wilson -- right, Bottle Rocket's Future Man. Turns out, he may be the most talented of the Wilson brothers after all.
| Neko Rahmen Taisho, an AFFD must-see |
The watch-listed Danny Hurley sends the sad news: Joe Christ -- filmmaker, musician, provocateur, parent and all-'round hell-raiser -- died on Father's Day. According to the Facebook memorial page to which the faithful have been posting fond memories and farewells, he passed away in his sleep -- heart attack, three days after he'd turned 52.
For those who don't recall Joe, or didn't live in Dallas when he did (throughout most of the 1980s), he was John Waters turned up to 11 -- don't watch this at work, seriously. Shannon Sutlief nailed it in the paper version of Unfair Park in 2005, when she wrote about one of his many frequent trips back to Dallas: "a sultan of sick humor." And speaking of Waters, this is Joe in 1999, talking about perhaps his most infamous moment in Dallas:
As I understand it, John Waters has seen my movies, and considers them "bad" bad taste, as opposed to his concept of "good" bad taste. But when my band pulled a big publicity stunt -- on the 20th anniversary of his assassination, we rode in a limo through the JFK memorial services in Dallas in costumes resembling JFK and company -- John Waters personally congratulated us over the phone on our immensely bad taste.As for the music, well, "Acid is Groovy ... Kill the Pigs" remains an unheralded surfabilly classic. What you see above is Joe and his late, great band, the Healing Faith, on a Dallas cable access show called Hi-Res Diner hosted by Paul Quigg; it dates back to August 17, 1987, a million years ago.
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| Michael Cain, kicking off the 2009 AFI Dallas International Film Festival on March 26 at the AMC NorthPark |
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| Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winner Shane Carruth, left, and Brothers Bloom writer-director Rian Johnson at the Magnolia last night |
| Nathan Fillion "as" Green Lantern in Jaron Pitts's faux trailer |
I did it because I am a big fan of the comic to film concept, when it's done right. I love the mythology and depth that it can have. It seems like either the big studios get it really right or really wrong, and before we saw anything that they did, I wanted to imagine it for what it could be. I never imagined it would get the attention it has, but who knows -- maybe my little trailer could help make this movie a little better.Clearly, it was no easy feat: As Pitts explains on his YouTube page, Pitts mixed and mashed dozens of different elements to create the phony trailer, incorporating everything from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring dialogue to Star Trek trailer music to, natch, Serenity clips -- for starters, as the trailer contains, all told, elements from some three dozen works (Iron Man, Galaxy Quest, the Fantastic Four movies, you name it) weaved into one 2:38 clip already viewed more than 138,000 times since it was posted Friday. If nothing else, Fillion's clearly a fan: As he tweeted over the weekend, "I LOVE THIS! this guy rocks!"
I had the idea back in March and have been tinkering ever since. It was definitely a lot of late night hours, so we should all be thanking my wife for not killing me.