Samuel L. Jackson, Snakes on a Plane
In theaters Friday and not being screened in advance for critics — or even cast members, who will see it for the first time at a Thursday-night premiere — Snakes on a Plane, starring Samuel L. Jackson as an FBI agent escorting a mob snitch who gets targeted for a clever in-flight "assaspination" via the release of 400 poisonous slitherers, has been the subject of many questions. Such as:
Is that really the title?
If so, who on God's green earth approved it?
Is Snakes on a Plane actually about snakes on a plane?
And: Can a movie about snakes on a plane that's titled Snakes on a Plane be any good?
Reporters greeting Jackson at the Snakes press junket (
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How's this for a Hollywood believe-it-or-not? Cellular and Phone Booth scribe Larry Cohen is phonophobic.
"Telephones are the scourge of modern existence," Cohen tells TV Guide Online. "They bring this voice from nowhere into your life — that can be frightening. Anybody can call you.
"When I start to work on a script," he adds, "I take the phone off the hook and put it in a drawer until I'm finished working. I don't want my train of thought interrupted. Now that everybody's got a cell phone, there's no privacy or peace... [there's] people on phones in the car, in restaurants, even in public rest rooms! That's why I don't have a cell phone — I'm afraid someone might call me."
The 66-year-old veteran writer and director, whose maverick movies include the killer-baby picture It's Al
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