Do you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese at the Grand Ole Opry? Nashville Star judge Anastasia Brown tells Jack Myers' MediaVillage.com that she and Oscar winner Quentin Tarantino are working on a scripted drama series set in the Athens of the South. Former Jackass Johnny Knoxville will be in the pilot. The trio previously worked together on the 2005 film Daltry Calhoun (yes, that Daltry Calhoun).
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West WingThere are only two weeks until the election, and both campaigns are in full frenzy mode. So this was not a real good time for Santos' aides to lose his luggage. A single briefcase hasn't caused this much trouble since the beginning of Pulp Fiction. Granted, there wasn't heroin or porn in there as Lou feared (note to self: empty out briefcase), but an embarrassing journal and a secret checkbook for paying your illegitimate nephew's child support really should be taken better care of. The potential Samsonite scandal left me with three big questions: 1) Why didn't Santos fire the flunkies who lost his case in the first place? 2) If Bruno's willing to give a huge speech about the sanctity of voters knowing everything about the candidates they choose bef
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Grind, an experimental feature in which Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez each direct an hourlong horror tale, will feature an intermission between the segments, Variety reports. In fact, as production nears, Tarantino (whose hour, "Death Proof," is a slasher flick) and Rodriguez (whose "Planet Terror" is a zombie pic) are busy developing ideas for intermission fare, such as faux movie trailers — e.g., the Pulp Fiction auteur is keen on pimping a sexploitation film titled "Cowgirls in Sweden" — and phony ads. My 48-ounce-Diet Pepsi-loving bladder is already aching.
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Question: I recently saw and loved the movie Crash, and was especially intrigued by the way all the stories intersected and converged. Could you possibly give me a list of some other films whose stories are structured in the same way? Answer: I certainly can: First, for the benefit of readers who haven't seen Crash (2005), its structure is one in which multiple narratives are developed simultaneously and overlay or intersect at key points before converging at the end. Unlike ensemble movies in which there's a main plot and a series of subplots, films like this give more or less equal weight to all the story strands and derive a significant part of their thematic power from the apparently random way in which different characters' destinies come together. To my mind, the greatest of all multiple-story narratives is
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