Russell Crowe Still Loathes Press, and 5 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today
Also in today's edition of The Broadsheet: Is Sarah Palin's Alaska dangerous?... Alexander Payne and George Clooney's Descendants get a sneak preview... And ego clash costs TNT a director... "America is like a dog"... and more...
· "If I ever was going to torture somebody, I'd put them in a room where they can't leave and have someone new come in every three minutes and ask the same question over a number of days and then weeks." Love you, too, Russell Crowe! [LAT]
· We'll have Louis Virtel's take on the premiere of Sarah Palin's Alaska a little later on, but here's the basic gist, according to one pundit: "It trumps Bridalplasty as the hands down most dangerous reality show ever conceived." Admittedly I missed it, but come on. That's not effing possible. [Salon]
· An early, early viewer of the Alexander Payne/George Clooney-go-to-Hawaii collaboration The Descendants reports that it's "an entirely worthy addition to the Payne canon" and a probable fixture of Fox Searchlight's 2011 Oscar campaign. [Hollywood Elsewhere]
· Veteran TV and film director Gregory Hoblit reportedly walked off TNT's untitled Steven Weber/D.L. Hughley cop pilot 36 hours after signing on, incapable of working with hotshot creator/producer Allan Loeb. I have no idea what happened, but if the guy who directed the pilots for L.A. Law and NYPD Blue and was an original co-producer on Hill Street Blues recommends a few script/story modifications ahead of the new show, maybe you should just make them? [Deadline]
· Joshua Cohen has devised possibly the greatest cure(s) ever for writer's block. Hint: Scotch, Adderall, plagiarism and/or suicide are all on the table. A ball-busting must-read for scribes in any discipline. [The Paris Review]
· Speaking of suicide, here are Bill Maher and Michael Moore debating the integrity and intellectual capacity of the American voting public. Happy Monday! [via Hollywood Elsewhere]
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“an entirely worthy addition to the Payne canon”
Hm. I'm not sure how to feel about that since I consider _Election_ his last great movie.
So Russell Crowe made some insignificant joke about the challenge of surviving a press junket. He had to have been tired, since these movie promo tours sound like a mental and physical obstacle course. Does he loathe the press? No proof of that here or in the LAT interview, though this sort of so-called reporting sure would give him plenty of reason. It has to be draining dealing with an industry so willing to take every little utterance out of context simply to create more dirt.