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The Tabloids Have Only Just Realized Jason Segel Is A Sex Symbol

Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:04:00 GMT

I was on a date a few years ago and mentioned that I'd been enjoying the then-recently released DVD of Freaks And Geeks: The Complete Series. My date took me aback by rolling her eyes to the skies and murmuring about her lustful tendencies toward one Jason Segel. My response: "You mean the fat guy who plays the drummer?"

I quickly recovered by saying I was "joking" and that I was just a bit surprised since James Franco is much more attractive and sports a tight leather jacket throughout. (Seth Rogen was on the show, too, but who could have then predicted that he would be the sex symbol of 2009?) My date imparted a piece of knowledge which I have not forgotten: "Jason Segel is a sexy, sexy man."

The New York Post and other tabloid rags would have done well to have figured that out before 99% of the culture did, sometime between Freaks and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which featured Segel's famous full-frontal nude scene...

Here's what the Post had to say about the premiere of "I Love You, Man," one of these straight-guy/bromance movies that will hopefully be done away with at Hollywood's earliest convenience:

JASON Segel, sex symbol? The 6-foot-4 comic had a gaggle of female admirers at the Cinema Society screening of "I Love You Man" the other night, including a model who told him she was disappointed the flick didn't feature a full-frontal scene as did his "Forgetting Sarah Marshall." Quipped Segel: "I kept whipping it out, but they wouldn't put it in." Also at the Soho Grand after-party thrown by Details were co-stars Paul Rudd and Rashida Jones, plus Edward Norton, Parker Posey, Bee Shaffer and Eric and Kimberly Villency. [NY Post]

Ladies, don't despair about the deleted scenes featuring Segel's schlong-- he was kidding. Of course, he was full frontal in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, in photos widely available on the internet. Click here for those links and make sure your safe search is off.

What do our readers think? Jason Segel-- hot or not?

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While You Were Sleeping: Imagine Porky's... But Starring Kate Winslet

Brian Fairbanks — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:08:00 GMT

Lil' Wayne won the popularity contest known as the Grammy nominations process. However, it wasn't a total loss: M.I.A., Coldplay, Taylor Swift, and Alison Krauss at least received more than their share.

Sarah Palin's latest ethics violation is being blamed on an "administrative error." Yeah, right-- then why has it been two months since the media had a field day with this "oversight" and only now you're fixing it?

Hey fatasses in Louisiana... Vermont can squeeze you in.

The official overseeing the police department in York County, PA was arrested on rape charges following a two-hour standoff with the police.

No one told us Andrew W.K. was hosting Ted Leo karaoke last night with Ted Leo/Pharmacists playing a full set, plus one where the audience does live karaoke with the band. Awesomeness.

Defamer asks "Is The Reader the new Porky's?" Apparently, The Reader was directed by Judd Aptow and features Jessica Biel's boobs.

We never understand when people talk smack about Brad Pitt. He's a charming old bastard...

GQ: "James Franco Is A Douche"

Brian Fairbanks — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:13:00 GMT

This story was written by Sean Flanagan, who is guest blogging while Verena is at the Democratic National Convention...

Everyone loves James Franco, sorta.

Pineapple Express was hilarious. Franco was exciting and endearing-- and in a good movie. But, it turns out, if you haven't seen any of his films since 2001's James Dean, you probably wouldn't know that everyone in Hollywood thinks he's a douche.

GQ, as you will see, does nothing to shatter that image; in fact, they get right down to it in the opening lines:

He's sorry about the awful movies, sorry if he was a jerk on-set, sorry for trying to be the next James Dean. But now, with the chronically charming Pineapple Express and an Oscar-baiting drama coming this fall, Franco is making sure his future looks nothing like his past, even if it involves making out with Sean Penn...

After that, it only gets worse:

1) Judd Apatow call Franco ugly and stupid:

“What I remember about meeting James,” says [Judd] Apatow, “Was that he had this really big mouth, and he was very skinny, and very greasy... We had no sense that he was attractive— we just thought he was this, you know, wannabe cool guy, but it wasn’t quite working, a funny mess of a guy, the way he performed the scenes."

2) Franco discusses a gay cocaine threesome and "email vent" about how he was unhappy with the lack of time spent discussing art and poetry during his the days of being trailed for the cover article.

3) "To watch the complete works of James Franco, as I did, is for large stretches of time a dispiriting experience.... He seems more like a witness powerless to prevent the same crime being committed over and over again."

4) This one is too great of a quote to really make anyone look bad, though:

One time when he was deep into reading a particular text, Sean Penn told him, “You’re reading that book like you’re waiting for it to lie to you.”

Of course, since Scanner loves James Franco, we have to point out that we do not support GQ's position. There's something entirely lovable about a guy who has this to offer us about his first time kissing a man-- in this case, Sean Penn:

The ﬁrst kiss of the movie was out on Haight Street, with, like, 200 people watching, outside. It was a crane shot—I’m sure in the end it will be a really cool shot, but it starts close and then it takes maybe a minute. That’s a long time on film with everybody watching and, like, a fake mustache getting in your mouth. It was long enough that you couldn’t help thinking, ‘Oh, my God, I’m kissing Spicoli.’ ”

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Someone Stop The Remakes!

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:05:00 GMT

So what if "Rain Man" is going to be a West End play and the Sherlock Holmes movie is based on the books? These two movies have casting choices that cry Hollywood desperation of the lowest order...

Yesterday, Variety announced two potential casting choices for the Sherlock Holmes comedy Judd Aptow is working on. Despite the fact that we wish Hollywood would come up with original ideas instead of just recycling everything, this admittedly does have hysterical written all over it. An as-yet-untitled film that

will star Sacha Baron Cohen as master detective Sherlock Holmes and Will Ferrell as Watson, his crime-solving partner.

The comedy is inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes tales. Though the thrust is different, the Baron Cohen-Ferrell pairing is the second major studio project featuring the supersleuth, as Warner Bros. is prepping the Anthony Peckham-scripted drama "Sherlock Holmes" with director Guy Ritchie.

So a goofy Sherlock Holmes and a violent crime version of Sherlock Holmes on speed? It remains to be seen whether either of these ideas will work.

Meanwhile, Variety also reported

Josh Hartnett will make his West End debut toplining a new stage adaptation of "Rain Man" that begins perfs in London later this summer.
Hartnett plays the Tom Cruise character in the legit version of 1988 pic "Rain Man," with Brit thesp Adam Godley ("The Pillowman") co-starring as the autistic savant played onscreen by Dustin Hoffman.

Wait a minute... "Rain Man?" The one where two guys drive across the country, make pit stops in Vegas, have naked times with Valerie Golino, and featuring a climactic moment that involves a moving train? How the hell are they going to make that a play? What's next, "No Country For Old Men" is going to be a Broadway musical? And why is Josh Hartnett involved?!

Sorry, we're getting a little carried away. We'll live. But Hollywood, please make some movies that are funny and not from endlessly-adapted books and moves that are interesting and thought-provoking and not remakes of award-winning, near-perfect films from after we were born.

Thank you.

Via Variety and Variety.

Hey Film Industry: "Abortion" is Not a Bad Word, Mmmkay?

Emily Farris — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:24:00 GMT

When we saw Knocked-Up last summer, we laughed a lot, sure, but we also got angry at times, because we kept thinking: this story does not end this way. Wouldn't the successful girl abort the stoner's baby after a sloppy one-night stand? But while Judd Apatow was beating around the bush, Romanian writer-director Christian Mungiu went there in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. We're guessing you know what that series represents...

The year is 1987, when Romania is still under the nightmarish police-state rule of Ceausescu and abortions are highly illegal. Nonetheless, college student Otillia (played by Anamaria Marinca) agrees to accompany her pregnant roommate, Gabita, to a man who will terminate her pregnancy. It’s a bleakly comic — but mostly bleak — journey that takes Otillia across a Bucharest ravaged by Communism, leading her to an utterly devastating decision about how far she’ll go to help a friend. Whatever your opinions about abortion, by the end of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, you’ll be grateful you live in a country where we can make such frothy movies (like Knocked Up and Juno) about such a serious subject.

[Via Very Short List]

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Abortion Issue Heats Up... For The GOP

Brian Fairbanks — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:00:00 GMT

On the same day a Virginia court struck down a state anti-abortion law as unconstitutional, a GOP primary in the most competitive Congressional district in Oregon saw a stunning upset...

CQ Politics reported this morning that

Businessman Mike Erickson won his party’s nomination for a second time in two years Tuesday, but an ongoing scandal casts a pall over his victory and could hamper one of the GOP’s best shots at picking up a Democratic House seat in the fall.

What was this shocking scandal that nearly doomed the Republican stalwart? We'll give you a hint: it has to do with abortion...

Mannix sent out an e-mail claiming Erickson had once driven a girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to terminate a pregnancy. Erickson has admitted to having a relationship with the woman, giving her a ride and giving her money, but claims he didn’t know the money was for an abortion. Both Mannix and Erickson ran as anti-abortion candidates. [CQ Politics]

Sorry, bub, not buyin' that one. We'll gladly meet you at the polls in November, when your ass is grass...

Is US Weekly Being Sexist?

Emily Farris — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:08:00 GMT

Yesterday we joked that we were no better than US Weekly. Now we're beginning to rethink that statement (not that we ever took it too seriously).

US is currently running a poll on their website asking if Katherine Heigl is "being ungrateful" for talking to Vanity Fair about her perception that Judd Apatow's "Knocked Up" was a little sexist.

We kind-of feel like if ~~the tables were turned and~~ George Clooney was going around saying that some movie he was in was "a bit misogynistic" US would be praising him for speaking up for women or some shit. But that's just us...

Does Katherine Heigl Think Judd Apatow is "Sexist?"

Emily Farris — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:07:00 GMT

When we saw "Knocked Up" over the summer, we had just broken up with a stoner boyfriend who too closely resembled Seth Rogen's character, Ben. So much so, that while we got a few laughs over the freakishly hairless prosthetic vagina, we probably had far too much of an emotional reaction to the movie. We kept saying to ourselves and others, "That story does not end that way." Because, in our experience, it did not. A few months later, when "Knocked Up" came up in conversation (and it most certainly did on many occasions), we were able to have a less emotional, more critical opinion -- chiefly, why would a smart, successful, beautiful, single woman keep the baby of a smelly stoner she only screwed because she was drunk? Apparently, the film's female lead, Katherine Heigl, agrees. In the January issue of Vanity Fair, she says she thought the movie was "a little sexist" and said, “It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys." True that, Kate.

[Via Defamer]