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Posted: **Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:11 pm**

Tomlin on the hullaballoo over Fuckabees.

Posted: **Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:59 pm**

Doctor Sunshine wrote:Special mention to Wahlberg's look of slack-jawed bemusement in the backseat.

Because he probably remembered watching Clooney knocking Russell on his ass.

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:46 am**

Antoine Doinel wrote:Thanks for the link as the other ones were removed before I could watch them.

No probs. Quite amusing though, seems Fox Searchlight are NOT happy about these at all, more cease and desist notices. That You Tube link I posted has been removed from the site, and now reads: "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by N1 European Produktions GmbH&Co.KG and Fox/Fox Searchlight".

But you can't stop the guerrilla media once they're on to something. Both videos available again here:
Video #1 and Video #2

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:03 am**

soma wrote:But you can't stop the guerrilla media once they're on to something.

Cool, and thanks again!

I LOVE that Isabelle Huppert checks her makeup while Tomlin is losing it.

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:13 pm**

dadaistnun wrote:Tomlin on the hullaballoo over Fuckabees.

Lily puts everything nicely in context: â€œAfter poor Britney Spears, with her poor little legs open â€¦ I'm not the least bit upset about it,â€

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:29 pm**

Antoine Doinel wrote:I LOVE that Isabelle Huppert checks her makeup while Tomlin is losing it.

Someone should make a (silent) loop of the end of that & project it on the side of a building, bad pq & all. Something along the lines of that Canturbury Tales video installation piece.

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:14 pm**

Amusing stuff, especially when Russell comes thru the set door in order to childishly rant and curse that Tomlin is supposed to act like an adult. Too funny.

Is there anywhere to see a clip of the completed car scene, which wound up cut from the film? Would be an interesting deleted scene to see, especially given our "insight" into the trouble filming it, and the fact that it was supposed to elucidate the plot.

My personal history and Huckabees:
Initially, I was turned off by the name of the film as well as its annoying ad campaign which was all over the NYTimes website. But I'm a sucker for well-done quirky films, so I somewhat reluctantly watched it. I wound up loving the film and have watched it 3 times to date, which is a lot considering my insane backlog of unwatched Dvd's.

PS I'm surprised that large red rubber balls designed to be rammed into the face for stress-relief were never marketed.
I'd buy one for my office.

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:43 pm**

Yeah, this film became a favorite of mine as well. Initially when I saw it in the theater I wasn't quite sure what to make of it, but I bought the DVD have definitely watched it a few times more since. Mark Wahlberg is absolutely great in this and though I think the film doesn't quite succeed, its ambition is admirable. I haven't quite seen a studio comedy like this, well, ever.

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:04 pm**

It's the Jacques Derrida version of Who's Minding the Store?

http://ehrensteinland.com/htmls/g012/da ... sell.shtml

Posted: **Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:55 pm**

David Ehrenstein wrote:It's the Jacques Derrida version of Who's Minding the Store?

Except with a much more confused understanding of philosophy....

Posted: **Fri Mar 30, 2007 2:36 pm**

Whoever leaked the footage, it wasn't Clooney. From IMDB:

Clooney: "I Didn't Leak 'Huckabees' Footage"

George Clooney has issued a $1 million challenge to anyone who can prove he's behind the leak of internet outtakes of I Heart Huckabees. The footage, featuring actress Lily Tomlin and director Davd O. Russell screaming at one another, hit cyberspace late last week, and Clooney, who famously fell out with the moviemaker when they made Three Kings together, has been linked to the leak. But, in a statement released yesterday, the movie star wrote: "Contrary to popular opinion, neither the sound man, Ed Tise, nor yours truly sent in the David O. Russell tape. I saw it (footage) when we were working on Ocean's Twelve, and there have been quite a few copies traveling around town for the last couple of years. Any rumor that either of us put it on the internet is simply false." And Clooney is so keen to prove his innocence he's offering a huge reward if anyone can prove he was behind the leak. He adds, "(I will) offer a million bucks to anyone who would prove otherwise."

Posted: **Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:29 pm**

George should relax.

Posted: **Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:49 am**

To quote don rickles: "I'm a nice guy."

Posted: **Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:31 pm**

Paul Rudd and Michael Showalter re-enact the blowup.

Posted: **Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:41 pm**

Antoine Doinel wrote:Paul Rudd and Michael Showalter re-enact the blowup.

That's wonderful. I love when Showalter calls Rudd a "cunt bitch." Here is a rap remix of the original.

Posted: **Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:22 pm**

Clooney sounds off on the Huckabees/YouTube thang on Entertainment Weekly's site:

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You've denied leaking the Huckabees footage. But is it possible we will ever see any similar material from Three Kings?

GEORGE CLOONEY: The funny thing is that that tape has been going around for about two and a half years. And everybody's seen it. I saw it when we were shooting Ocean's Twelve. I felt bad for Lily but I also felt a little vindicated for anyone that thought that that had anything to do with me on [Three Kings]. But, you know, the last thing in the world I would have done is stick it on the Internet. I don't even know how to get onto YouTube. So there's not going to be any Three Kings things. There are pranks I like to play [but] that [posting this kind of footage online] falls into the world of screwing with people's careers. I'm up for a good fight, but not sneaky. I like 'em face-to-face.''

Do you think this kind of thing is going to happen more and more?

Sure. I just think the Internet is a free-for-all now. Ultimately a lot of crap comes out. There's going to be tons of things. You're going to have someone filming in somebody's hotel and get them when they have Spanktro-vision on and put that on the Internet and that will be a career-ender for somebody. There's gonna be plenty of that going on. Until someone figures out how to tame the wild wild west then I don't really know you can put the genie back in the bottle. Maybe it's good. Maybe it'll make people behave themselves on sets.

Posted: **Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:59 am**

Let the defence of David O. Russell begin.

Posted: **Sat Apr 14, 2007 9:29 am**

For those not members?

Posted: **Sat Apr 14, 2007 3:39 pm**

Wink.

Posted: **Sat Apr 14, 2007 8:54 pm**

"Consider the history of similarly 'passionate' directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Sam Peckinpah and James Cameron." You know, just throw Cameron in there.

Posted: **Sat Apr 14, 2007 10:06 pm**

What, no Pialat?

Posted: **Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:14 pm**

Jean-Luc Garbo wrote:"Consider the history of similarly 'passionate' directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Sam Peckinpah and James Cameron." You know, just throw Cameron in there.

Well, they had to name at least one director whose talents are comparable to Russell's.

Posted: **Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:11 pm**

tryavna wrote:Well, they had to name at least one director whose talents are comparable to Russell's.

Explain that.

Posted: **Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:54 am**

I have respect for the early Cameron. Terminator and Aliens are two of the tightest, most perfectly constructed and executed genre movies ever made. But then, the moment his reputation is established, he dives off into sentimentality and doesn't come back... Quite a strange one, that.

Posted: **Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:19 am**

I expect the evangelical wing of the Republican party to start making "I [Heart] Huckabee" bumper stickers now. I hope that the aforementioned wingnuts then head to their local Blockbuster to be confounded and angered by the movie.

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I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell, 2004)