It's a slow news day in the entertainment world and I have a cold so I don't feel like doing much editorializing or reviewing for fear that it would simply come out as an incoherent blob with no purpose or direction. I am going to see Youth in Revolt tomorrow though, so look for that review sometime before Monday.
The one thing that I did find that might be of note from Hollywood Reporter though, is that Jenna Fischer from The Office is in talks to star in the new Farrelly Brothers comedy Hall Pass, which is in pre-production according to IMDB.com. IMDB also has Owen Wilson as being involved along with and Jason Sudeikis, that sometimes funny, mostly annoying guy from Saturday Night Live.
There are two reasons why I think this tidbit to be worth writing about: 1) I have a secret crush on Jenna Fischer. She is so cute in a such a modest and unassuming way, as if she doesn't even need to try, unlike most stars who go miles out of there way to make sure you see how beautiful they are.
And 2), I've read the script for Hall Pass and, although it's not quite as classic as There's Something About Mary or Kingpin (it kind of loses control in the third act and is a little too long), it is not without many big laughs (especially one involving a golf cart and a bag of pot brownies) and is certainly better than the last Farrelly flick The Heartbreak Kid. In brief summation, the movie is about two sex crazed middle-aged guys who wives let them have a "hall pass" for the weekend. That means that the girls leave town for the weekend and the guys are free to have sex with anyone they want if they so choose to do. That's all I'll say about it.
On a side note: two other recent scripts I have read are going to be debuting at Sundance this year include Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me with Casey Affleck about a small town sheriff with murderous impulses (quite good) and the Joan Jett Biopic The Runaways with Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning (quite benign).
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