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.
