COUNTDOWN
TO BOOGIE NIGHTS
DAY 2
Boogie Nights makes porn stars look far too pathetic according
to '70s artistes du penetration Bobby Astyr and Candida Royalle,
as quoted in the New York Daily News. However, they say, the
slick producers, bad dialogue and poor production values are right on
target. So, the 19-year-old from Iowa who's getting paid $1,000 by a
guy with leather pants and a gold chain to have sex with three men while
saying "Oh baby!" six or seven hundred times in front of cheap wood
paneling isn't pathetic. The lighting of the scene is what's pathetic.
OK. Warning: Objectification may appear closer in real life than in
the rear-view mirror.
Boogie Nights star Mark Wahlberg's price is going up.
Way up. Sources say Wahlberg will pull down almost $2 million to team
up with Hong Kong superstar Chow Yun-Fat (star of The Killer
and the upcoming The Replacement Killers) in The Corrupter,
for Boogie studio New Line Cinema. In the thriller, Walberg plays
the good-guy partner to Chow's rogue cop. Then the two have sex on screen
with a family of ... Oops. Wrong movie.
Boogie Nights' home studio, New Line, also has the next Mike
Figgis movie, One Night Stand, coming to screens soon. At
the recent junket for the film, Stand star Wesley Snipes edged
around some inside info without giving too much away. First, he made
funny noises while talking about his upcoming Blade, which he
produced and stars in, which those of us in the room assumed were sounds
of excitement. Little did we know that the night before, Snipes had
suffered through a disastrous screening of the film, as related by a
screening attendee who wrote into the Ain't It Cool Web site. Then,
he said that the film he'd really like to do is the Miles Davis story.
Two days later, producer Marvin Worth (Malcolm X, Lenny)
announces that he's acquired the rights to make Davis' life story for
Sony. I wonder who'll be playing Miles. Hmmm.
Tomorrow, Boogie Nights TV. Talk about your prime time!
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