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August 29, 1997
Friday, 29 August 1997
Dunkin' Donuts has hooked up with 20th Century Fox to cross-promote Home Alone 3's Thanksgiving release, finally explaining why the police never showed up in the first two films.
Bill Duke, director of Hoodlum, reports that he was forced to remove many uses of the word "nigger" from his film due to strong objections by audiences in research groups. Oddly, no one seemed very offended by slurs against Jews, Italians and the Irish. In the pursuit of fairness, The Hot Button offers Mr. Duke these politically correct slurs for each group. "Paleness Challenged," "Suffering From J.D.D. (Jesus Disbelief Disorder)," "Mafia Enabled" and "Potato Enriched."
Hoodlum star Laurence "Don't Call Me Larry" Fishburne recently offered Variety his take on the history of black film. He must have caught an early draft of this week's The Whole Picture.
The Drudge Report tells us that New Line will make Him, a movie about a female biologist who tracks down an alien microbe that possesses and kills males. Studio legal eagles must have shot down the more obvious title, The Anna Nicole Smith Story.
Posted by poland at August 29, 1997 08:08 PM
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