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Half a dozen college chums reune to reminisce, bicker and bond. This agitated comedy (produced by Lee's cousin Spike) could be called The Big Chillin' if it had a smidge of the 1983 film's wit and charm. It's nice to see an African-American story set outside the 'hood, and we'll keep calling hunky Taye Diggs a star of the future until he's 60. But he'll have to be in movies better than The Best...
...Spike Jonze, the director: Oh, we tried. We couldn't come up with anyone. I don't know what we would have done if John Malkovich did said no. Our list was empty...
...read. He said, "Oh, yes, there's one thing you have to read." He kind of sent it along. And at first, we expressed to Charlie that I myself would be interested in directing or producing it... if it wasn't about me. I suggested William Hurt. But Spike wouldn't change...
...remember thanking Charlie and Spike because I got to do a scene where I was sitting on a couch in a hovel with a monkey telling the monkey that I was an unappreciated artist. I did that looking straight into the monkey's eyes. All I could think was, "My god - this is as good as it gets. There's nothing that can compare to this...
...help us come up with our characters, Spike had taken pictures of random people with a long-lensed camera on the streets of New York. We pieced our characters together from these images, by asking, "Who's Lotte? Who's Craig? Who are these people?" It wasn't about snubbing anyone, or taking down looks, or just creating a shocking effect. We just to find the people whose stories we wanted to tell. That's acting, which is really...