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Variety has reported that the casting for the new Three Stooges film, which is to be directed by the Farrelly brothers, is finishing up casting. Sean Penn has been signed on to play Larry, Jim Carrey is in negotiations to play Curly and the brothers are looking to Benicio Del Toro to play Moe.

The movie got off to a rough start when Warner Bros. decided to drop the project, but it was later picked up by MGM. However, it's still unclear how the whole things is going to work.

The Farrelly brothers, known for such hits as There's Something About Mary, have already been quoted as saying that the film will not be a biopic, but will instead take place in the modern day with them still acting, dressing and looking like The Stooges.

"When the economy started turning, we felt like the world could use a Stooges slapfest," Peter Farrelly told Daily Variety. "Bobby and I haven't done a real physical comedy in a while, and it's the most exciting thing we could think of now, to have people go to the movie, see some great slapstick fun family humor."

I'm not going to pretend to be a Stooges aficionado, but now that there are actors attached to the film, it is much easier to see it all coming together. Carrey seems like the perfect fit for the movie since he is best known for his comedic roles (even though he proved his serious acting chops in The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Penn, who just won an Academy Award for his role in Milk, and Del Toro seem to be odder fits, but you never know what range these guys will be able to show off if given the chance.

Because of the fact that the Stooges are beloved by so many around the world, this movie has quite the standard to live up to. Hopefully the Farrelly brothers will be able to create a movie that exceeds expectations.

 

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]]>benecio del toroBenecioDelTorofarrelly brothersFarrellyBrothersjim carreyJimCarreysean pennSeanPennthree stoogesthree stooges movieThreeStoogesThreeStoogesMovieRincey Abraham2009-03-27T13:10:00+00:00If I Hear One More Thing About Teenage Vampires ...http://brighthall.aol.com/2009/03/27/if-i-hear-one-more-thing-about-teenage-vampires/http://brighthall.aol.com/2009/03/27/if-i-hear-one-more-thing-about-teenage-vampires/http://brighthall.aol.com/2009/03/27/if-i-hear-one-more-thing-about-teenage-vampires/#commentsFiled under: , ,

The elite prep students at the prestigious Boston Latin school are evidently concerned that vampires are roaming their halls.

The gossip has seeped so much, in fact, that the academy's headmaster had to send a note to everyone Thursday to quash the "rumors involving 'vampires.' "

This moral panic, the Boston Globe reported, was started when a group of girls teased a "Goth" student for being a "would-be vampire," spreading the rumor that she had sucked someone's neck blood. More childish students freaked out when the police arrived at the school for a completely unrelated incident.

Apparently, teens have been sickly obsessed with vampires since the confusingly popular book/movie "Twilight" began romanticizing the night crawlers months ago. Girls across the country had Twilight sleepovers to celebrate the movie and Robert Pattinson's budding facial hair.

Why now? Vampire literature has stacked libraries for centuries, stemming from Heinrich August Ossenfelder's 1748 erotic poem "The Vampire" and thriving in the latter half of the 20th Century with Anne Rice's popular Vampire Chronicles. Clearly there's a market out there for readers interested in secretive bat-like characters sinking their teeth into the virgin flesh of sleeping women.

(I'm more of a classic movie buff myself, preferring the likes of Teen Wolf to silly unrealistic fantasies. But I digress.)

Just as we thought the fake-literature fad spurred by Harry Potter was finally ebbing, here comes another book about magic, or the undead, or something. Suddenly, thousands of teenage (and college) girls who hadn't had anything to read since the Deathly Hallows were racing to Borders to buy, of all things, a vampire romance story pretending to be a book.

And for some of them, it's gone too far. Vampires at school? Really? What, exactly, are the questions on the entrance exam for Boston Legal, and how do they not weed out the overly imaginative?

Here's a comment on the Globe story from what appears to be one of the girls who poked fun at the "would-be vampire:"

WE OBVIOUSLY DONT BELIEVE IN VAMPIRES
THE MEDIA IS MAKING US LOOK DUMB
THEY WERENT RUMORS, THEY WERE MAKING FUN OF THE KIDS
IM DISAPPOINTED IN THE GLOBE

Perhaps. And perhaps I'm not doing a great job of curbing this discussion, despite the headmaster's plea in his letter to "not sensationalize or discuss these rumors."

But another commenter on the story claims that the vampire hysteria at Boston Legal was in fact started by three freshmen who "call themselves vampires, who bite each other's necks and put band-aids over the hickies/bites." Further, they deny that Twilight inspired them because they say the movie "misrepresents vampires."

Imagine that. A fictional story misrepresenting a fictional being. Kind of makes you want to stab something with a silver cross.

 

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When the tractor beam rudely snatched me from a pleasant slumber, it only took me a startling second to realize what was happening. At that point, the thought that kept reverberating through my brain was, "If they try any of that anal probe nonsense, I'll freaking kill them." Ha. Thinking back, I can't help but chuckle at the ignorance of my presumptions.

For one, did I actually think myself capable of harming the creatures in possession of technology which was presently lifting me out of my bed and into their spacecraft without so much as a whisper, let alone a broken window? And as Creblon remarked when I told him/her of my initial fears, "Why the hell would we even want to do that? I mean think about it. God, you male humans and your homoerotic paranoias."So with misunderstandings clarified, we had a good laugh, drank a couple of their local microbrews and ended the trip back at the time it began so I could still catch some sleep before the morning. Nice guys, those aliens. Lightweights, but nice guys nonetheless.

The only problem was telling people about my experience afterwards. Creblon was right, if it wasn't outright pity for my delusions, it was an endless succession of mostly unfunny anal probe jokes. Thankfully though, a recent string of alien related news has given me reason to hope for a more mature public understanding of my interstellar drinking buddies.

First, there's Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man on the moon, telling media outlets left and right that the Roswell incident was real, aliens come here all the time, and several government officials in the know let him in on it, on account of him going to the moon and whatnot. This guy is the man.

Then there was Nick Pope's New York Times op-ed piece on July 29th urging the U.S. government and aviation officials to take UFO sightings more seriously, if not out of sheer curiosity then at least for the sake of national security. Because what if those things aren't alien spacecraft but actually secret new Chinese/Russian/Iranian flying discs capable of breaching U.S. airspace at whim and delivering a devastating payload of General Tsao's chicken/ Stolichnaya/ kebabs in the heartland of America? Obviously we'd be screwed.

And finally, NASA officials announced last week, that yes, by Jove, there is water on Mars, making the notion of life on the planet, past or present, much more feasible. The movie Mars Attacks remains no less absurd, however.

 

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