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...Kenny Anderson to a young fan asking for an autograph during the 1998-1999 NBA Lockout. Anderson was walking out of the meeting when a cameraman caught him brushing off a young fan asking for an autograph. Though Anderson later claimed that he was actually talking to a heckler off-camera, the former Celtics point guard also joked that if the NBA Lockout continued, he’d be very upset because he “might have to sell one of [his] eight cars...
Knoxville (who uses his real name, P.J. Clapp, off-camera) has made a career for himself by damaging his body in spectacular ways. Until Ozzy Osbourne let cameras into his living room, Knoxville's show, Jackass--it's named for the idiocy of the stunts performed on it--was MTV's most popular program ever. In it, Knoxville and his skateboarding pals would go on adventures like shooting one another with stun guns, sitting in a well-used Porta Potti while it is flipped upside down and competing in a hard-boiled-egg-eating-and-barfing contest...
...connected to talent. He never discredited his majestic accomplishments--"How could you do the things I did and not love it?" he asked Leavy in an unguarded moment--but he always knew their limits. At a time when too many unpleasant tales of celebrities deformed by their off-camera vanities would have shattered our illusions if we still harbored any, Sandy Koufax proves to us that it's possible to be both great and good. That goes for Sandy Koufax...
...marooned in alternate universes. ... Lines are delivered in unison, there are awkwardly failed attempts at overlapping dialogue, some actors appear to be reciting by rote or reading cue cards.... Left stranded in scenes that are grossly overextended, his performers strike fantastic poses, stare affectingly into space, or gaze casually off-camera. - Hoberman, "Bad Movies...
These satires take one premise--a naif enters the cutthroat world of TV--and give it two very different executions. On Greg a floppy-eared puppet lands on a kids' show whose furry cast members throw hissy fits and pop Percocets off-camera just like flesh-and-blood divas. Eugene Levy and Seth Green make fine foils, but it's their plush pals who will have you in, er, stitches. The show defies good taste and gets away with it, as when Greg falls under the sway of an Al Sharpton-like puppet-rights agitator. ("This is going...