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Jul. 29th, 2004 11:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
koncupiscencehuh. kevin smith is recording a commentary track for the director's cut of donnie darko. cool beans. but, i wonder... why, exactly.
this pic made me chuckle. i guess it was printed on the comic-con programming.
and there's a great interview here with kevin smith and guinevere turner (who was much of the inspiration for and appeared in chasing amy). they reminisce about the past 10 years, being at sundance together in '94 with clerks and go fish respectively. kevin, well we know what he's up to lately, and guin is presently a writer/producer for the l word on showtime (and she makes the occasional appearance in front of the camera, as well!).
bits and bobs from the interview:
(kevin's thoughts after seeing go fish)
Smith: It was also an intimidating movie, because it was very...
Turner: Man-hating?
Smith: Yeah. [Turner laughs] It intimidated me as a man, because I was like, I don't think they like guys. No, obviously there was a filmmaker at work behind it. And suddenly our film didn't seem like a film so much as a string of jokes - like a stand-up routine without the brick wall and suit jacket.
Smith: And whatever happened to the Bettie Page movie?
Turner: The Bettie Page movie is going to be in preproduction soon - like, April. Gretchen Mol is going to play Bettie Page; HBO is doing it.
Smith: And is it your script?
Turner: Yeah. Mary [Harron] is directing. And I'll have some sort of producer credit.
(grrrr... i'm glad they're finally making the bettie page flick, but it should be starring guin as page, damn it. she looks just like her. gretchen freakin' mol?! ick.)
Guin, could you have imagined that 10 years later you'd be working on a lesbian TV series?
Turner: I think that I was such a little idealist at the time... what's it going to be like in 2004? Lesbians will roam free, and there'll be lesbian channels and hundreds of lesbian movies out...
Smith: Aren't there?
Turner: No.
Smith: And you don't feel that, 10 years later, you guys are further, at least, in the media?
Turner: Yeah. I mean, definitely. But I probably would've thought even more so.
Smith: You'd have knocked the breeders off the box at this point.
Turner: It's 10 years later and there's finally a lesbian show on TV, but it is a long time.
Smith: Are there other lesbians in the cast or not? Are they all actresses?
Turner: One of them, Leisha [Hailey], is on the cover of The Advocate. The rest...
Smith: Closeted?
Turner: Some are married, some take the Fifth.
Smith: Is that a convention that bugs anybody at this point or not?
Turner: It bugs them the most to be asked all the time if they're gay. "We're actors." Nobody asks the people on ER if they have medical degrees. [Laughs] It's a touchy issue.
this pic made me chuckle. i guess it was printed on the comic-con programming.
and there's a great interview here with kevin smith and guinevere turner (who was much of the inspiration for and appeared in chasing amy). they reminisce about the past 10 years, being at sundance together in '94 with clerks and go fish respectively. kevin, well we know what he's up to lately, and guin is presently a writer/producer for the l word on showtime (and she makes the occasional appearance in front of the camera, as well!).
bits and bobs from the interview:
(kevin's thoughts after seeing go fish)
Smith: It was also an intimidating movie, because it was very...
Turner: Man-hating?
Smith: Yeah. [Turner laughs] It intimidated me as a man, because I was like, I don't think they like guys. No, obviously there was a filmmaker at work behind it. And suddenly our film didn't seem like a film so much as a string of jokes - like a stand-up routine without the brick wall and suit jacket.
Smith: And whatever happened to the Bettie Page movie?
Turner: The Bettie Page movie is going to be in preproduction soon - like, April. Gretchen Mol is going to play Bettie Page; HBO is doing it.
Smith: And is it your script?
Turner: Yeah. Mary [Harron] is directing. And I'll have some sort of producer credit.
(grrrr... i'm glad they're finally making the bettie page flick, but it should be starring guin as page, damn it. she looks just like her. gretchen freakin' mol?! ick.)
Guin, could you have imagined that 10 years later you'd be working on a lesbian TV series?
Turner: I think that I was such a little idealist at the time... what's it going to be like in 2004? Lesbians will roam free, and there'll be lesbian channels and hundreds of lesbian movies out...
Smith: Aren't there?
Turner: No.
Smith: And you don't feel that, 10 years later, you guys are further, at least, in the media?
Turner: Yeah. I mean, definitely. But I probably would've thought even more so.
Smith: You'd have knocked the breeders off the box at this point.
Turner: It's 10 years later and there's finally a lesbian show on TV, but it is a long time.
Smith: Are there other lesbians in the cast or not? Are they all actresses?
Turner: One of them, Leisha [Hailey], is on the cover of The Advocate. The rest...
Smith: Closeted?
Turner: Some are married, some take the Fifth.
Smith: Is that a convention that bugs anybody at this point or not?
Turner: It bugs them the most to be asked all the time if they're gay. "We're actors." Nobody asks the people on ER if they have medical degrees. [Laughs] It's a touchy issue.
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Date: 2004-07-29 08:57 am (UTC)*♥'s Kevin Smith*
*♥'s your 'bits and bobs' cut tag* X-D
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Date: 2004-07-29 09:29 am (UTC)oh! and here's another questions for you. this icon you speak of, it's this one, right? come on, admit it. i mean look at that face! *baby talks*
no, seriously. i've got it narrowed down to 2, okay 3. and you have the best icons evah, btw, oh talented one.
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Date: 2004-07-29 09:40 am (UTC)OMFG YOU'RE RIGHT. IT'S UR ORLI ICON OMFG.
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Seriously. You don't know?? I've, like, expressed my undying love for it on repeated occasions. IT'S UR ONLY SEAN ICON OMG.
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Date: 2004-07-29 09:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-29 09:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-29 10:03 am (UTC)but okay. sam, sean, different. and i thought it might be that one, but then why don't you have one of your own? you know how. i have to go out and steal icons where i can. you could make one with his scarf AND more COAT OMG! \o/ but, i guess that wouldn't really go with this "sam smackdown" theme of yours.
i know, i had to go searching for it to reference, but i kept forgetting to ask you and i HAD TO KNOW OMG. *lame*
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Date: 2004-07-29 10:13 am (UTC)I try not to make icons of pix that are the pride and joy of other people on my f-list, because I hate it when I icon a pic I really like and then a zillion other people do it. *Fist*
I'm sort of running out of Smackdown!Sam scenes to icon. :( :( :( (Any suggestions would be repaid in sexual favors liek whoa.)
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Date: 2004-07-29 10:30 am (UTC)and sexual favors you say? 8) *grabs dvds* *researches liek whoa*
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Date: 2004-07-29 10:33 am (UTC)