Tara Reid Would Be Open To Doing A Josie and the Pussycats Follow-Up
Shut Up, Evan podcast,
American Pie and
Sharknado star Tara Reid shared a snippet from the episode, detailing that time she appeared in a comic book movie. The movie? The box office bomb
Josie and the Pussycats. The movie was released in early 2001 to baffled reviews and an indifferent audience, but has gone on in the intervening years to become a cult classic. Writer-directors Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, who have turned to TV since
Josie came out (currently they have the YouTube Original
Liza on Demand streaming), actually pitched a follow-up to the movie a few years ago albeit one without Josie or the Pussycats.
Clockwatchers is a wicked, subversive comedy about the hell on earth occupied by temporary office workers. Hired by the day, fired on whims, they re victims of corporate apartheid: They have no rights or benefits and can t even call their desks their own. They re always looking at Polaroids of someone else s family.
This is a rare film about the way people actually live. It s about the new world of security cameras, Muzak, cubicle life and hoarding office supplies. Try not to make too many mistakes, a new temp worker is told. These forms are expensive. When she botches some forms, she throws them out in the ladies room to hide her crime. The toilet, indeed, is the only sanctuary in a big office: the refuge, the retreat, the confessional. Only when your underwear is off can you find a space to call your own.
Tom Hanks in You ve Got Mail.
Warner Bros.
In You ve Got Mail, Hanks character, Joe, is a third-generation businessman who opens a commercial chain bookstore called Fox Books on Manhattan s Upper West Side.
In the 1990s, Hanks impressively earned two consecutive Oscars for his performances in the dramas Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994), which was based on Winston Groom s novel of the same name.
He also received best actor award nominations for Big (1988) and Saving Private Ryan (1998).
In addition to appearing in the baseball film A League of Their Own (1992) and the NASA biopic Apollo 13 (1995), Hanks was in Sleepless in Seattle (1993), another iconic Ephron rom-com in which he starred opposite Ryan.
ARTS
Adios, Robinson
Brava & La Lengua Teatro en Español present a radio play in Spanish (with English subtitles) by Julio Cortázar, with an updated anti-colonial take on
Robinson Crusoe. Thru Dec. 5. https://www.brava.org/
Alice in Californiland
AXIS dance revises their performance of the magical strange dance-tale of a young girl s journey. https://www.axisdance.org/
Ballet22
In a blend of classical ballet, pointe work and contemporary styles, the new Oakland-based company Ballet22 will premiere new dances recorded at SF s ODC Theater, some with a modern holiday edge. The program, titled Breaking Ground, premieres December 11, will include a modern take on the Sugar Plum Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker; Juntos, a neo-classical work by Cincinnati Ballet Soloist Joshua Stayton; and a world premiere by Artistic Director of Boca Tuya, Omar Román de Jesús. Concerts will stream Dec. 11-13 and 18-20 at 5pm & 8pm. Tickets range from $20-$250. (Read the article in this week s
Blaine, Mo., was founded, we are told, 150 years ago, by settlers who were trekking to the West Coast and stopped when their leader "smelled the salt air.'' Its place in history has been assured by two events: A wooden stool made in Blaine, presented to President Grover Cleveland, led to the city becoming "stool capital of America.'' And in 1946, a flying saucer landed nearby. Within the resulting crater, it was "always 67 degrees with a 40 percent chance of rain.'' Local residents were invited aboard for a potluck supper, and one of them still has no feeling in his buttocks.