Send your movie questions to FlickChickQuestion Why isnt Owen Wilsons name in the credits of Night at the Museum Is he ashamed of being in it SueFlickChick Owen Wilson is a good friend of Ben Stiller star of Night at the Museum He agreed to do an unbilled cameo in his friends film Actors will often go uncredited when theyre doing a tiny part because theres no way that can get the billing they would normally be accorded For a quick overview of the politics of billing please check out this FlickChick columnfrom 2005 In any event during test screenings Wilsons character a miniature cowboy tested so well with audiences that the filmmakers went back and scraped together enough footage to expand his part into a real role The absence of credit has nothing to do with shame or embarrassment the average actor has neither anyway Send your movie questions to FlickChickQuestion I cant believe I found your site its great Heres my que
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Send your movie questions to FlickChickThis weeks DVD Tuesday pick is Suspiria and its dedicated to the one I love the filmmaker I love I hasten to clarify And that would be Italian master of the macabre Dario Argento who changed my life I wrote my masters thesis about his films and it later became my first published book The book Broken MirrorsBroken Minds The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento in turn established my reputation as the thinking fans horror expert and it has inspired remarkable devotion in the most unexpected of quarters I was thinking about Argento recently as I read about onetime actressformer Italian first lady Veronica Lario Berlusconi whom I first saw in Argentos Tenebrae Berlusconi recently took her husband to task for his wandering eye in an open letter published in the newspaper La Repubblica If her dignity as a woman withstood on-screen death by arterial spray Im sure shell survive her husbands relentless flirting Argento is at the
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Ah... my favorite time of year... the leaves are turning, Halloween plans churning, and Masters of Horror Season 2 is off to a screaming premiere tomorrow night [10PM ET/PT on Showtime]. As I weave my dark tvguide.com web here for the new season, I wanted to give Season 1 a short "re-capitation," and take us all through Season 2 "ghoul school."The Premise and The ExtremeMasters of Horror began as a dinner conversation among acclaimed horror directors, which soon became TV history-in-the-making. Director Mick Garris became the series Creator and Executive Producer, and his vision was to allow the "chosen 13" directors as much creative freedom possible. Showtime was up for this premise, and without MPAA intervention, 13 seriously extreme 1-hour horror films found a home on cable TV.And Then There Were 12The horror and cult community eagerly anticipated the 13th and final episode, directed by Japan's legendary Takashi Miike [Audition; Ichi the Killer]. However, finding it way too extre...
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