Tuesday, June 17, 2003

AND TWO -- BECAUSE YOU'RE A MAN: I'm just sayin', is all, because it was on my tv last night . . .

. . . . but is there a worse case of vanity casting in recent film history than Kevin Smith putting his wife Jennifer Schwalbach as "Missy" in Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back.

Schwalbach was, of course, a journalist at USA Today when they met, and this was her first acting role. (It is not her last; however, she has yet to be cast in a movie not directed by Smith or a friend of his.)

Now, true, when you look up "self-indulgent" and "onanistic" in the film dictionary, this movie may well top the list. But, still: putting your wife in a black PVC jumpsuit and filming her with the same leering, slo-mo photography afforded Eliza Dushku in the movie?

I didn't need to see that.

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