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Will Universal ‘Choke’ on Palahniuk?
"Art never comes from happiness." So says Victor Mancini’s mother just a few pages into Chuck Palahniuk's novel "Choke". Victor is a deeply disturbed medical school dropout, with sex addiction problems and a severely unhealthy relationship with his mother. By day he works at a colonial era styled theme park playing an Irish indentured servant, and by night he trolls sex-addict meetings….to get dates. His mother’s history of melodramatic parenting has ended her in a care home suffering from Alzheimer’s and left Victor so attention starved that he deliberately chokes on food in restaurants in order to get “hugged” (via the Heimlich maneuver). Sound like the making of a great movie? Well Universal Pictures apparently thinks so.
Theron & Townsend Sitting in a Tree
It seems every Hollywood couple, at one time or another decide to work on a project together, for better or worse. Some do it well (Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas) while others let the film go down in flames as well as their relationship (Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck). Keeping with the trend, another glamorous duo are set to work side by side. Charlize Theron
has been attached to Irish boyfriend Stuart Townsend's
script and directorial debut, Battle in Seattle.
Review: House of Sand, The
"Making a case for home not necessarily being the physical space one inhibits but instead the place where one’s soul is kept hopeful – this is a slow-paced affair full of sand dunes, sand storms, sand in the eyes and sand on the skin. "
Blunt’s in the Park
Anyone who saw this summer's The Devil Wears Prada remembers the the bitchy assistant Emily flawlessly played by British actress Emily Blunt. Kissing Meryl Streep's ass and shooting Anne Hathaway cold looks were enough to secure Ms. Blunt a place in the highly contested Hollywood rolodex. It has just been announced that she will be starring opposite Susan Sarandon in writer David Auburn's The Girl in the Park.
