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Here Are Some Afternoon Links!

Kelly — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:30:26 +0000

The most shocking thing about this interview with Gus Van Sant is the picture of Gus Van Sant. I had never seen him before! That’s not what I pictured at all! -Movieline
You can read an excerpt from Roger Ebert’s new memoir at Salon, and you should because it is great. -Salon
NYTimes has a profile on six actresses starring in upcoming TV shows this fall, including Kat Dennings and Zooey Deschanel. Did anyone watch the pilot of New Girl? I’m embarrassed to admit that I did. It wasn’t very good! (But also it wasn’t the worst.) -NYTimes
Descriptions of ten scenes from Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star. That movie sounds very good, it’s no wonder that it is getting all the best reviews. -Grantland
Esquire has a profile on Jon Stewart. You like that guy! Why not read it? -Esquire
A beautiful, touching tribute to our fallen friend Entourage. RIP. -Chamberlain
Conan writer Todd Levin wrote a piece about the many things that can go wrong in writing a daily comedy show. You should read it! Obviously! I put it in the list! -Good
Here is another spoof teaser trailer for the Muppets movie. “Oh, I was just WISHING for another spoof teaser trailer for the Muppets movie.” -I don’t think anybody. -TheDailyWhat
January Jones had her baby. Congratulations to Momuary Jones and Babuary Jones. I hope she is nice to it! -TheSuperficial
Celebuzz is working on recasting The Breakfast Club, with Kristen Stewart as Ally Sheedy, which is where they’ve already gotten it wrong. #birdie4sheedy -Celebuzz
Want to look at all the movie posters that were released this past week? Doy, of course you do, I don’t know why you wouldn’t. -FilmDrunk

Being White Is Hard: Blue Valentine/Being White Is Hard: Restless

Gabe — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:07:15 +0000

Whoa! I knew being white was hard, but it is about to get so much harder!!!! There are two new trailers out this week for two new movies that are about to show us what it’s like when people stop being polite and start getting IN/OUT OF LOVE. The first is Blue Valentine, which features Ryan Gosling (relax, ladies) and Michelle Williams (relax, fellas) as a couple that is in and then out of love. At one point, they are so out of love that the MPAA has given the film an NC-17 rating (which Harvey Weinstein is being mad about as we speak). The other film is called Restless, starring a couple of nobodies (relax, nobodies), directed by Gus Van Sant. Here, too, it looks like people are going to fall in love and then also fall in disease. There is also a lot of hanging out at funerals because when you are white you don’t have to work. It’s awesome. Anyway, dry your constantly tear-filled eyes because of the beauty AND ugliness of the world and enjoy these trailers, you guys:

Zac And James Make A Porno

Gabe — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:09:25 +0000

Gus Van Sant interviews James Franco in the new issue of Interview (via Radar), and they hit upon the subject of Zac Effron:

Gus Van Sant: So we haven’t talked about Zac yet.

James Franco: What is Zac?

GVS: Zac Efron.

JF: Oh. Well, yeah, we can talk about Zac.

Sure. James Franco can talk about Zac Efron. He will go all night on Zac Efron.

I Am Milk Trailer

Gabe — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:44:16 +0000

Milk is the new film from Gus Van Sant about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office as a city supervisor in San Francisco. He was also murdered (natch, America is #1!) by a fellow city supervisor (un-natch, WHUUUT?). Trailer, you guys:

I like Gus Van Sant and I think that this movie looks interesting and that Harvey Milk’s story is one that definitely deserves to actually be told (sorry, Ray. You are bullshit) but I can’t shake the painful and distracting echoes of I Am Sam in Sean Penn’s performance. He likes to hear the homosexual community read, because it makes him happy, it makes him happy when the homosexual community reads. Yikes. He should win some kind of lifetime achievement Oscar for all the hard work he’s done trying to get one. A Special Oscar if you will.