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July 17, 2006
Lurks II: when Caro Met Smith again
ChiTrib's pop blogger, Marc Caro, gets Kevin Smith to talk about his relationship with reviews and movie crickets, and, of course, with Marc Caro. Producer's rep and author John Pierson "recalls that after Clerks came out, 
[he] bought a laminator. "He would save all his reviews and laminate them," Pierson says. Makes sense. Newsprint turns yellow, after all. Now, of course, everything's online, so when Pierson asked him the other day whether he still uses the laminator, he was surprised that Smith answered in the affirmative. "I said, 'Are you telling me you laminate [stuff] you print out on your own printer?' " Pierson recalls. "He said, 'Yeah.' I said, 'That's sick.'" The day that Smith's inside-joke-filled farce Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back came out in 2001, he actually posted on his Web site a rundown of every single review in the country—the star rating (if there was one) and his own comment. When he got to "1 1/2 stars, Chicago Tribune," he wrote, "Lose my e-mail, Caro." Almost three years later, when I e-mailed him for comment for a news story I was writing—as I occasionally used to do before my review—he responded by asking if I'd first take back my Jay and Silent Bob review. My response was that now he knew that my positive reviews, such as of Chasing Amy, weren't just snow jobs. No dice. No comment."
Posted by Ray Pride at July 17, 2006 04:21 PM
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