…whoever lined up the venerable veteran chosen to play time traveler Hiro Nakamura’s father in an upcoming episode of “Heroes.” Even Masi Oka, the actor who plays Hiro on the popular NBC series, has described the casting as “absolutely brilliant.”
Don’t want to know who it is? Then don’t click on the link. But, really, you want to click the link. You know you do. And it will be ever so very rewarding.
So go ahead. Click the link. You’ll be glad you did.
I know, I was as surprised as anyone when I asked Chris Matthews a question and he had something to say. The guy so rarely opens his mouth or, really, has an opinion on anything. On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of “The Chris Matthews Show,” Mr. Matthews did a teleconference. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to get this up prior to last week’s election, but we think you’ll find it a really interesting read nonetheless. By the way, in the interest of full disclosure, we should mention that this Q&A was actually done by two people – myself and our head honcho, Mr. Gerardo Orlando – but you’ll be able to tell which questions were asked by him, in that they show an actual knowledge of politics….
Bullz-Eye: Hi, Chris.
Chris Matthews: Hi.
BE: Which blogs do you tend to read to prepare for your shows, and how do you feel about inviting more bloggers to appear as guests on your program?
Well, that didn’t take long.
Hot on the heels of an impressive second weekend for “Borat,” not one but BOTH burning questions about comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s irreverent alter ego have now been answered.
For those of you playing along at home, those questions were:
A) “How long will it take before one of the victims of Cohen’s onscreen pranks files a lawsuit?”
Answer: One week.
B) “How long before Cohen tries his “Borat” shtick on the wrong guy, and gets himself a good old-fashioned American ass-kicking?”
Answer: Not long at all.
According to UK tabloid The Sun, Cohen was hanging out with “House” star Hugh Laurie following the latter’s appearance as host of “Saturday Night Live” on October 28, when Cohen (dressed in character as Borat) made the unfortunate decision to mess with the wrong New Yorker:
He approached the man and said: “I like your clothings. Are nice! Please may I buying? I want have sex with it.”
But the bystander didn’t see the joke. He took one look at Cohen and punched him in the face.
The funnyman — known for his Borat catchphrase “Jagshemash!” — yelled for help but was slugged again and again.
He was rescued by actor pal Hugh Laurie who had been on his way to a New York bar with Cohen. Laurie rushed to help and pushed the man away as Cohen struggled to his feet.
Ahhh, he’s a complex one, that House. See, he acts all gruff and uncaring on the outside, but deep down he’s got a heart of gold.
Based on Sunday’s estimates, courtesy of boxofficemojo.com:
This is the first real weekend of competition between the studios in the Your Favorite Movie Sucks league, which the top five spots going to one studio or another.
1) Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan: $29 million, $67.8 million to date (owner: Deb Medsker, Punch and Pie Pictures)
Game over. Between “Borat” and “Charlotte’s Web,” Punch and Pie is poised to blow the rest of us schlubs out of the water. The second to last pick in the second round, “Borat” is easily the steal of the draft so far. And to those college kids who are trying to sue Fox: let it go. It’s not the studio’s fault that you’re all boneheads.
2) The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause: $16.8 million, $41 million to date (owner: Jason Zingale, Seven Strangers Productions)
After an inauspicious debut, “Santa Clause” held rather well in its second week, putting off Jason’s plans to assassinate Tim Allen for at least one more week.
3) Flushed Away: $16.7 million, $39.9 million to date (owner: Kristin Dreyer-Kramer, Nights and Weekends)
Kristin’s grass-roots campaign to get all of her friends and family to see the movie in order to boost her fantasy team’s performance seems to be working. Man, I wish I had that many friends, because my first round pick didn’t do so well…
4) Stranger than Fiction: $14.1 million (owner: David Medsker, Scary Clown Studios)
Ow. Come on, people, it’s Will Ferrell! Not only that, it’s Will Ferrell in one of the smarter movies you’ll see this year. But like Jim Carrey, people are slow to accepting funny people not doing funny things. The biggest first round bust of the season so far.
5) Saw III: $6.6 million, $69.8 million to date (Steve Wamsley, TSSU Productions)
Another second round steal, “Saw III” keeps TSSU in first place for at least one more week.
6) Babel: $5.6 million (Steve Wamsley, TSSU Productions)
If we were keeping track of Oscar nominations, this would have been a better pick. But as a box office contender, well, it’s a hell of an Oscar contender.
8) The Return: $4.8 million (owner: Bill Clark, A Don’t Call Me Shirley Joint)
Have you seen the trailer for this? Cut, cut, loud noise, black. What the hell is this movie about? Don’t know, don’t care, and the moviegoing public appears to agree. Shirley stumbles out of the gate, but they have much better movies down the stretch.
10) A Good Year: $3.8 million (Nights and Weekends)
It looks as though Kristin’s efforts to goose the box office of Russell Crowe’s yuppie-finds-his-soul-in-France movie didn’t work out so well. If only Crowe had sung a Tom Jones song…
13) Harsh Times: $1.8 million (TSSU Productions)
This certainly has good cred, with Christian Bale and all, but Steve will surely wonder if “Snoop Dogg’s Hood of Horror,” which he dropped to pick up “Harsh Times,” would have made more money.
Current standings:
1) TSSU Productions: $79.1 million
2) Punch and Pie Pictures: $67.8 million
3) Nights and Weekends: $43.7 million
4) Seven Strangers Productions: $41 million
5) Scary Clown Studios: $14.1 million
6) A Don’t Call Me Shirley Joint: $4.8 million
Next week: TSSU opens two more movies, the biopic “Bobby” and the James Bond reboot “Casino Royale,” and Mark Pfeiffer’s Reel Times Pictures debuts with “Happy Feet” and “Let’s Go to Prison.” Will Harris’ What’s All This Then? Studios also makes its debut with “Fast Food Nation.” That’s 13 movies fighting for five spots. While we’re all duking it out, Punch and Pie has one more week to figure out what the hell to do about “The History Boys.”
It was bound to happen; it was only a question of which group would file the first lawsuit. My money would probably have been on the hostess of “Borat’s” ill-fated dinner party…but as it turns out, it’s the over-privileged fraternity boys who are suing the film’s producers over their portrayal in the movie:
The legal action filed Thursday on their behalf claims they were duped into appearing in the spoof documentary “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” in which they made racist and sexist comments on camera.
The lawsuit claims that in October 2005, a production crew took the students to a bar to drink and “loosen up” before participating in what they were told would be a documentary to be shown outside of the United States.
The young men “engaged in behavior that they otherwise would not have engaged in,” the lawsuit says.
Hmmmm…okay. So under any other circumstances, these upstanding fraternity members would not have gotten drunk, and would not have boasted about, for example, how much fun it is to “screw chicks” and then refuse to call them back. In fact, each of the fine young men shown on camera is in actuality a tee totaling virgin who brings flowers on every date and calls the girl afterwards whether she wants him to or not.
Uh-huh. Okay. Sure. Um, having a hard time getting a date on campus, now, are we boys? What a crying shame.
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