Friends: The Movie (Cross Your Heart)
Not sure how old I was, but I remember reading EW’s “TV Preview,” drinking Barq’s on the couch, and I came across a new show called Friends. In that kid way, off one picture and a “skeptical” description, I knew it was going to be a hit. “Arm-chair executives,” we were labeled later. God, I hope this effing movie doesn’t happen.
A British tabloid reports that a big-screen version of Friends is indeed happening within “18 months,” due to the success of Sex and the City. Hey, 40-year-olds can still be friends in a genuine way, right? [koff] As long as everybody stays out of law school and blogs. The inside source provides a verbal mudslide of choice quotes, like this one…
‘What’s held back a Friends movie so far is that people were worried that Jennifer [Aniston] had simply become too famous to play Rachel again. …It really comes down to money, and I don’t think Jen has a problem with all of the Friends getting huge paydays for the movie.”
The Rembrandts await the call, as do a couple million people on exercise machines, and coffee shops. And the monkey (not that monkey)! Ladies and gentlemen, if this is the post-9/11 Big Chill, I hope somebody blows up the set.
Larry Birkhead Clarifies Comments
Larry Birkhead would like to set the record straight.
Birkhead spoke to News in an exclusive phone interview Monday afternoon to clarify quotes he gave to the Associated Press about why he bought lingerie worn by Anna Nicole Smith on Saturday night at an auction as a keepsake for his 1-year-old daughter.
“I didn’t buy Anna’s lingerie for Dannielynn,” Birkhead explains. “We’re still on Sesame Street. We won’t get to Playboy until at least the age of 21.”
Birkhead said that he bought nearly $3,000 worth of itemsincluding two bustiers and two pieces of lingerie Anna wore in a 1992 Playboy shootin the Las Vegas auction.
“Playboy was a significant thing in her life and career,” says Birkhead. “It was something that I did with pure intentions. It’s something I will give her when she’s an adult so she can better appreciate what her mother was about.”
Four Talking Posters From The Spirit
When I first heard that Yahoo had talking posters from Frank Miller’s The Spirit, I thought to myself “Cool, this is the future of movie marketing”. I mean, eventually one-sheet displays will be replaced with flatscreen televisions which can easily switch in and out various movie posters. Say a screening of The Happening just gets out, the theater can load movie posters of films that people who went to see an M Night movie would also enjoy. As you leave The Dark Knight, posters from other comic book movies would light your path of exit. And this new technology would allow for animated and interactive posters.
So when I clicked over to Yahoo I was very disappointed to find four standard character posters. The talking gimmick is just a gimmick. You move your mouse over a poster and a sound clip from that character is played. Sure, it’s interaction, but pretty lamely executed. I was expecting for the characters to come to life. I was expecting their lips to move. Was I expecting too much? Check out the lameness for yourself on Yahoo. Or you could star at the four posters above and pretend they are saying the superimposed quotes. It’s probably just as good.
Fiddy Feuds with Alicia Keys
50 Cent is no stranger to drama. And living up to his hardheaded rep, the former drug dealer stirs things up once againthis time with Alicia Keys.
Alicia recently defended her gansta rap quotes in Blender magazine, but apparently the explanation was not enough for Fiddy, who had some major dissing to do.
"I don’t like Alicia Keys no more…If she thinks what they consider [to be] gangsta music is [made] to bring black people down, then I think my s–t falls into that category. I don’t like people who don’t like me."
And from the sound of it, the rapper isn't a fan of her music, either.
"I don’t think that [her] classical s–t is cool. I don’t give a f–k if you can classically play the piano. I haven’t been classically trained, because my upbringing, nobody put me in front of a piano at that time…I could f–king care less about the s–t. So she don’t like the music that embodies the harsh realities because they’re not her realities. She hasn’t been subjected to the same things."
Hmmm…Seems like a pretty safe bet to say that a Beyoncé 'n' Jay-Z-like rapper-R&B star coupling isn't in the works anytime soon for this duo.