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...genuinely interested to see what the murder mystery is, even while I grin at the jokes about a fat guy falling over. Shrek the Third Future Uncertain Main disappointment here? No Justin Timberlake. According to the ever-reliable source known as “the Internet,” JT is gonna be playing King Arthur in this flick. But there’s no evidence of such a delight in this little trailer. I mean, it’s sort of good, I guess. There’s a good bit with Pinocchio. And there aren?...
...went the reality route long ago; now movie audiences are finding that Superman is no match for Grizzly Man. Some gifted directors (Martin Scorsese, Michael Apted, Werner Herzog) commute easily between fiction films and documentaries. They know that good stories don't always come from a writer's imagination. JT Petty makes horror movies for a living. (He also writes video games and children's books.) But he was haunted by a real story from his youth: a neighbor had been stalking and taking movies of local women. Decades later, Petty couldn't get the man to talk on camera...
Fantastic stories often stray into fantasy—who knew? As if faux-memoir writer James Frey weren’t enough, hip literary circles have been rocked by the revelation that the author JT LeRoy is just a phantom of two washed-up rockers’ imaginations. LeRoy, HIV-positive queer writer of “autobiographical” childhood truck-stop prostitute tales, does not exist, and his rags-to-riches memoirs are a hoax. Oh, the critics bemoan, what happened to the importance of being honest? Where lies the lost virtue of authenticity? A better question might...
...writer, a scandal: this too sounds like something we have read somewhere before. The new element, following the James Frey and JT LeRoy scandals, is the role a little-known pop-culture tastemaker played in how Viswanathan got signed, got famous and got a comeuppance...
...about his “tone.” An undeniable, simple beat by the Neptunes and in fact, in fact, I think it might be every bit as good as “One Thing.” One of the best parts about it is that the JT cameo implies that there’s a new album on the way. And it also suggests that Snoop Dogg’s done trying to resist his place in the 2k5 landscape, embracing the clown shoes and teaming up with the greatest pop singer alive for a cheesy celebration...