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...executive producers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese (the team responsible for Joe Schmo) asked Shatner to move into Riverside with a fake entourage and crew and pretend to shoot a sci-fi movie. Townsfolk were hired for the bogus production. Throughout the eight-day shoot, Shatner played an increasingly absurd, over-the-top version of himself. "The last thing we set out to do was make fun of small-town America," says Wernick. "The thing we actually set out to do was make fun of Hollywood." That would explain the kleptomaniac tendencies of one of Shatner's sham-movie...
...called the prosecution’s case “the most absurd story ever told in a courtroom in the United States...
...ceremony—which has become an object of cultish delight for audience members—showcases a dizzying sequence of mock tributes and absurd skits, monitored by its mascot Ig: a bespectacled, nearly nude bald man painted silver from head to toe who wandered around carrying a flashlight. The evening also featured genuine Nobel Laureates. Harvard chemistry laureates Dudley R. Herschbach and William N. Lipscomb, as well as physiology or medicine laureate Richard Roberts, presided over the ceremony, leading everything from a can-can dance to a Karaoke rendition of “Can’t Take...
...Schwartzman says of the film. The boyish actor sits across the room from Russell, clad in a Brooks Brothers button-down, dress pants and sneakers. “The ideas in the movie are huge messages, huge ideas that we do need to ask ourselves. They are absurd at times. I think the great thing David did was make the ideas easy to understand...
...vote," he says. "But what I vote for? Nobody cares. At least not right now." The rules McGraw breaks--by wearing a bad-guy black hat instead of the white one good guys wear, recording with his touring band, the Dancehall Doctors, as opposed to studio musicians--are so absurd that he seems just roguish when he flouts them...