The 100 Dumbest Things Hollywood's Done Lately

50. Movieline put Marisa Tomei on its cover.

51. Marisa Tomei held out for her $5 million asking price on the sequel to My Cousin Vinny long enough for Only You to come out and bomb, whereupon the studio didn't want her at all,

52. Marisa Tomei decided to take on the role of Lady Anne in the film adaptation of Richard III.

53. Christian Slater tried to slip past an airport metal detector an unregistered 6.5 mm. Beretta handgun and six rounds of ammunition.

54. Upon the announcement by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen that the three were ing their own studio, Daily Variety ran the head-line, 'Troika Sets Town Atwitter."

55. Carolco and director Renny Harlin went forward with Matthew Modine for the leading male role in the $75 million pirate movie Cutthroat Island after Michael Douglas, Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes and others turned it down.

56. Director Renny Harlin wrote the following instruction in a memo to the Cutthroat Island production team: ''Any idea previously used has to be reinvented now and then cranked up 10 times."

57. Cutthroat Island director Renny Harlin described his wife, Oscar-winner Geena Davis, as "a female Jean-Claude Van Damme."

58. Larry King's interview with Marlon Brando.

59. Alicia Silverstone in The Crush beat out Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List for the MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Performance of the year. William Baldwin won Most Desirable Male for Sliver.

60. As a concession to pissed-off film auteur Richard Rush, who accused Cinergi and Disney of violating his artistic vision on Color of Night, the Disney company released his cut on home video and he described it as "longer, darker, denser, more erotic."

61. Coca-Cola agreed to let Oliver Stone excerpt one of its commercials in Natural Born Killers, then was incensed by the way it was used and demanded it be cut out after the movie was released.

62. Premiere magazine re-created classic scenes from quintessential New York movies by casting Sarah Jessica Parker as a substitute for Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch, Ann Magnuson as an imitation of Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Vincent Spano as Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront.

63. When Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales panned the premiere of producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason's show "Women of the House," and commented on the number of breast jokes in the episode, Bloodworth-Thomason responded by saying that Shales "might have been frightened by breasts as a child ... or maybe Tom is just not interested in breasts."

64. Uma Thurman described herself in an interview as "a goofball nerd."

65. In Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Jennifer Jason Leigh so faithfully re-created the corrosive, alcoholic Dorothy Parker's speaking manner that most of Parker's witticisms were practically indecipherable.

66. Brad Pitt insisted on doing his own stunt in a difficult action scene in Seven and wound up with a cast on his arm that had to be written into the movie.

67. The marketing campaign for the money-losing Quiz Show displayed the back of star Ralph Fiennes's head; the marketing campaign for the money-losing The Shawshank Redemption showed star Tim Robbins from behind.

68. Laurence Fishburne followed his Oscar-nominated performance in What's Love Cot to Do With It with roles in the dreadful Bad Company and Just Cause.

69. DreamWorks SKG, the new studio launched by Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen and Steven Spielberg, announced that its first animated movie project would be an epic version of The Ten Commandments.

70. Kurt Russell is being paid $7 million a movie.

71. Roman Polanski told the press that he was fascinated by Death and the Maiden, a play he made into a movie-- in which a woman who may or may not be a little crazed avenges herself for a torture that we finally find did indeed occur--because it was ''about the relativity of truth."

72. Dressed in a traditional wedding dress of her own design, plus ski boots, Christie Brinkley married her boyfriend on a ski slope in Colorado not far from the location of the couple's near-fatal helicopter crash.

73. The "feminist" backlash against True Lies.

74. The makers of Junior believed they could make a blockbuster comedy about a guy who gets pregnant and requires a cesarean section.

75. Pulp Fiction producer Michael Shamberg said of the upcoming baseball movie Sunset Park, "It's our next Pulp Fiction," and of his lead actress, Rhea Perlman, "Rhea will be a movie star after this one."

76. Barbra Streisand lectured at Harvard University.

77. Robert Stigwood, vowing Evita won't get made unless Madonna, star of Body of Evidence, plays Eva Peron, criticized opposing views by saying, "Just because she did a bad 'Letterman' show, you don't give her the role?"

78. Exit to Eden.

79. Greta Scacchi claimed in an interview that Sharon Stone was getting the scripts that she, Greta, had turned down.

80. The Road to Wellville.

81. Rob Morrow left "Northern Exposure" to star in movies. David Caruso left "NYPD Blue" to star in movies.

82. Producer Robert Evans called David Caruso "the next Steve McQueen."

83. Eric Roberts got himself arrested for allegedly throwing his wife against a wall.

84. Attempting to lure the Academy into nominating The Lion King for Best Picture, Disney sent out to Academy members a package of materials that included a cassette box of The Lion King with no cassette inside.

85. Steve Guttenberg is working again in feature films.

86. Mickey Rourke gave interviews letting the industry know he had cleaned up his act and is ready to work in Hollywood again.

87. The Village People are hot again.

88. Kevin Costner, star-director of Indian-sensitive Dances With Wolves is developing the Dunbar resort-casino in Deadwood, South Dakota, in direct competition with the casinos run by South Dakota's nine Indian tribes.

89. Sally Kirkland agreed to have plastic surgery live on "Geraldo!"

90. Alec Baldwin recorded a series of radio advertisements asking everyone to refrain from eating animals on Valentine's Day.

91. Sean Connery accepted the lead in a movie (Just Cause) in which he had to deliver the line: "If that's a concession, my ass is a banjo."

92. Raquel Welch declared that Sylvester Stallone is the next Brando.

93. After not receiving an Oscar nomination for her performance in Forrest Gump, Sally Field said, "I was thrilled I wasn't nominated."

94. On the subject of being accused of molesting his adopted daughter, being denied custody of his, adopted children and being tabloidized for over a year. Woody Allen said, "It's been fun! It's been fun being the bad guy in the press!"

95. Richard Pryor and ex-wife Jennifer Lee, whom he violently abused while they were married, watched the OJ. Simpson trial together.

96. Chynna Phillips's explanation in part to why she had moved from Hollywood to Manhattan, as told to New York magazine, was: "I got a cashmere coal at Bergdorf's 50 percent off. I love feeling intellectually stimulated."

97. Andy Borowitz, the writer and co-creator of such TV shows as "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air." stated that one of the main reasons he has moved from Hollywood to Manhattan was: "[In L.A.,] there are too many times in a given year where normal TV transmission is completely suspended for the extended broadcast of [a] cataclysm. If you wanted to see 'Full House,' you couldn't."

98. Kate Capshaw claimed she and husband Steven Spielberg want to live in New York so they can eat hot dogs on the street and experience the "randomity" of life on the streets of the Big Apple.

99. Andre Vajna, co-founder of budget-busting Carolco Pictures, and producer of Tombstone and Color of Night, received the NATO/Sho West Lifetime Achievement Award.

100. Daniel Baldwin proposed marriage to his girlfriend and "Homicide: Life on the Street" co-star with Conan O'Brien's help on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien."

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