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...ratio of bad to good Saturday Night Live movies hovering at about 6 to 1, can you blame MIKE MYERS for practicing a little quality control? The comedian claims he tried to delay production of Dieter, a movie based on his fey, monkey-toting German SNL character, because the script, his own, wasn't funny. Not satisfied with that explanation, Universal Pictures last week sued Myers for $5 million, claiming that he actually pulled out of the movie during a May 30 meeting, after the studio had already laid out millions in production costs and made Dieter the Teutonic tent...
...this film we learn that it takes 8,000 lbs. of pressure to crush a car but only one credited screenwriter (Scott Rosenberg) to pound out such a lame script. In the Bruckheimer tradition, Memphis assembles a team to carry off the job: a father figure (Robert Duvall), the token black (Chi McBride) and a mute (Brit footballer Vinnie Jones) with a gift for setting cars on fire. Angelina Jolie is here as the nominal girl-jock love interest, but Memphis' true love is a Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500. As he says of his early career, "I didn...
...didn't ever seem to get any! The title sequence has this really sensual series of cuts of a black couple making love, but it might as well have been for a different movie. The original Shaft exuded sexual energy and confidence, but there's nothing in this script that gives you any idea of why these women would want to sleep with him. When he drops that "duty to satisfy the booty" line out of the blue, it's incongruous. Frankly, Samuel Jackson was a lot more cool - and more like the original Shaft - in Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp...
...Ewing's Harvard career turned out to be a pure Hollywood script. When Fisher went down with mononucleosis halfway through the season, Ewing stepped into the starting five and played like--well, like Elton Brand. During one four-game stretch, he posted three double-doubles, including both games of the Penn-Princeton homestand as he matched up against the Quakers' Geoff Owens and the Tigers' Chris Young...
Dillon communicates via e-mail; several computers, including one that can "speak" her written words; and a paper pad on which she writes exquisite script. She can still walk, and everywhere she goes, kids rush up to squeeze her hand or hug her. They know that she remains the same Mrs. Dillon, beloved for dressing up in costumes--not just for Halloween--and for putting sunflowers in every nook of the library...