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Comedian, an engaging, low-budget documentary that begins playing in 60 cities this week, is all about that job, about how the 48-year-old Seinfeld struggles to go back to the small time, to return to what he was doing before he was Jerry. In it you'll see Seinfeld as you've never seen him before--standing onstage with a scrap of paper, scratching his head as he's unable to come up with a particular word or funny phrase. And no one boos--because he's Jerry...
...Crazy Nights. The movie, in which Sandler provides several voices, will be released by Sony in November. Like nearly all his movies, it will be produced through Sandler's Happy Madison Productions. Run by a tightly knit group of Sandler's buddies, the company has turned out several low-budget comedies starring his former Saturday Night Live colleagues. Happy Madison's television arm recently struck a deal to produce a sitcom for the WB network. Working with Revolution Studios, Sandler will serve as executive producer on next year's feature comedy Anger Management. Sandler was paid a reported $25 million...
With a salary of $1 million per episode of Friends, she knew that she would have to take a drastic pay cut for the low-budget movie, and that she would have to de-Rachel herself--drop the bouncy walk and the fluttery hand movements. "There's no lilt in Justine," says Aniston. "Life is hanging on her shoulders. On our first day of rehearsing, my acting coach said, 'Sit on your hands.' You don't realize you do these things. No wonder everybody says, 'She's Rachel, she's Rachel, she's Rachel...
...second, artistically abundant mid-'60s phase: black-and-white backwoods melodramas. The films' plot variations on cupidity and stupidity were nearly as inspired as their titles. "Mudhoney"! (A familiarly lurid tale of the drifter, the town bully and the yearning babe, with a supporting role for Maitland.) "Motorpsycho"! (A low-budget "Wild One" - the motorcycle crazies ride mopeds - with many worthy extras: a nice debut turn by Alex Rocco as a man whose wife the gang raped; a cameo by Meyer as the sexist sheriff who snaps, as regards Rocco's wife, "Nothin' happened to her a woman...
...middle school by his father's death and found work as a production assistant in Seoul. Five years later, he made his first feature. His aspiration was to make Hollywood-style action flicks. But in poor South Korea in the 1960s, Im had to settle with small, low-budget historical tales. He concedes that as an artist, those restrictions turned out to be fortuitous. "You can only make good movies if you film what you know," he says. "Every one of my bones is Korean. How can I make movies about anything else...