Word: cameoing
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...Kurt Russell isn't digging the proposed remake of his 1981 B epic Escape from New York. Asked by ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY if he would do a cameo in the new version, Russell snapped, "I am Snake Plissken! It's like Sean Connery always watching someone else do their version of Bond." SCORE...
...That information also gives Swagger a rare ally (pretty, stalwart Kate Mara, who played Heath Ledger's daughter in Brokeback Mountain) once he's on the run from Washington, D.C., to Tennessee, which he calls "the patron state of shootin' stuff." (The always authoritative Levon Helm has an excellent cameo here as a Yoda of gun lore.) His other helper is a rookie FBI agent (World Trade Center's Michael Pena), who does a lot of Internet research before he joins Swagger and gets to blow up some traitors...
...Hanks, 50, #1 last year. His 2006 films: The Da Vinci Code, $217.5 million, plus a cameo in Cars, $244.1 million...
...including Coke, Pepsi, Sprite, 7-Up, Red Bull, and their respective diet versions. “I think they really misrepresented the event by calling it a tasting,” said pub-goer Sara A. Bartolino ’10. Cranberry Juice and Triple Sec both made cameo appearances as the enthusiastic bartenders creatively mixed drinks. “I had high hopes and it’s a really great atmosphere but I’m kind of confused as to where the food is going to be served from,” taster Laurel T. Tainsh...
Certainly 24, which debuted just weeks after 9/11 and returns Jan. 14, comes as close as anything has to being the Official Cultural Product of the War on Terrorism. Co-creator Joel Surnow is a rare Hollywood Republican, and John McCain has done a cameo. Dick Cheney is a big fan too, and you can understand the Administration's wanting to associate itself with Bauer's badass competence. (He nabs nuclear masterminds; we get Jose Padilla.) Most damningly to critics on the left, Bauer's means of gathering intel (grab terrorist's finger, snap, repeat) make 24 a weekly rationalization...