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...part, a cinematic creation. He has yet to begin work on the second installment, which will grapple with Leni Riefenstahl’s 1934 Nazi propaganda picture Triumph of the Will. The third part, he said, will most likely remix French filmmaker Abel Gance’s intensely patriotic Napoleon...
...because he’s my roommate. I listened to Another Side of Bob Dylan yesterday while I was trying to write a paper. The Basement Tapes and Planet Waves. A little bit of Jamiroquai, especially “Canned Heat,” the song from Napoleon Dynamite. And a bluegrass group from North Carolina called Sons of Ralph on their album Grab a Root and Growl has an electric version of a song called “Will You Be My Salty Dog” that rocks sillily...
There's joy in Packerville. In a deal to be made official this week, Green Bay's NFL archrival, the Minnesota Vikings, will trade Randy Moss, the greatest and arguably most troublesome wide receiver in team history, to the Oakland Raiders. Minnesota gets linebacker Napoleon Harris plus two draft picks in return for Moss, whose teammates have grown weary of his rock-star antics--in January during a play-off win against the Packers, Moss pretended to drop his pants and moon the Green Bay crowd (the fans are known for mooning the buses of opposing teams). Maybe...
...lastly, where was Napoleon Dynamite? An original screenplay nod would have been killer. Frickin’ idiot...
...cottage outfit like MTV Films be a relevant business model for a major studio? In some ways, it already is. MTV Films has been hot of late, co-releasing with Fox Searchlight Pictures cult fave Napoleon Dynamite (made for a minuscule $400,000 and earning 100 times that at the domestic box office) and backing a mainstream hit in Coach Carter ($63 million gross). MTV Films' kid sister, Nickelodeon Films, had an $85 million hit with The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. Comedy Central is another cool brand, though its Team America: World Police belly-flopped last year. Paramount has already made...