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The trailer is out for the movie version of Toby Young's Vanity Fair memoir, How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, apparently a longer version of the one that surfaced in December. In an item titled "Devil Graydon," Page Six claims Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter "comes off worse than Anna Wintour did in The Devil Wears Prada." Carter should pray for such a glamorous portrayal. Instead, with actor Jeff Bridges in his shoes at the fictional Sharps magazine, Carter comes off looking a lot more like Jeff Lebowski. Clip after the jump.
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Sack. Of. Shit.
Well shit. Now I have to see it to find out if the chihuahua goes out the window or not. Good thing I'm a Jeff Bridges Devotee For Life, otherwise that would have been a huge burden.
"Sharps." Brilliant!
OK fine then, but don't anybody try to steal my idea for a picture about an artsy-fartsy literary magazine, O'Douls. I'm calling it We Wish There Was Someone Left To Alienate. Pauly Shore to star as "Dave Eggheaders."
Ole Jeff Bridges had his hair layered.
@KarenUhOh: The sequel can be McJuliaSweeneys. I'd sneak into a theater to see that.
@In Other News...: Or its sequel [w/ product tie-in], McJuliaSweeney'sTodds.
KarenUhOh: Ha! So witty, and it's still so early in the morning. Kudos.
Periodically (maybe 7-10 times a day) I mourn the loss of silent pictures. Every bit of sound in this trailer--the sound effects at the beginning, the horribly cliched voice-over, the actual dialogue--is sonically unbearable.
@KarenUhOh: Or the sequel to the sequel, McJuliaSweeney's Todd Bridges, edited by Beau Bridges, featuring abridged excerpts from "Bridges of Madison County," as read by Othmar Ammann.
@In Other News...: Which will be made into a Lifetime series, Brooklyn Bridges, in which Keith Gessen attempts to explain Keith Gessen to Keith Gessen.
@In Other News...: Othmar Ammann! I congratulate you on this most obscure reference.
wow. that looks so boring.
@KarenUhOh: ...to be parlayed into Gessen Vs. Geffen on the Fox News Channel. Each episode will feature a debate on the merits of the Dewey Decimal System's according to Gawker readers vs. whether or not foaming your entire house in full view of your less fortunate neighbors to help protect it from California wildfires is a good idea. It will be "Scintillating TV!" (Earl Dittman, Wireless Magazines), "Like Riding A Roller Coaster Naked!" (Richard Roeper), and "Fucking Awesome! This is Must-See Cable TV!" (The Sacramento Bee).
@ohnothimagain:
Who you callin' obscure? I'd like to box truss you upside the head!
- Othmar Ammann
@ohnothimagain: Unless it's actually the name of Graydon's new fragrance, Othmar Tods as product tie-in" on the wikipedia scale of reference obscurity.
whoops, math is hard:
"Othmar [less than sign] Tods
This is worse than novels about writers.
They made a movie out of Devil Wears Prada and out of Alienate People. How come they never made a movie out of the best magazine book of them all: Slab Rat?
Balls. From the picture it looks like David Carradine and the adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he navigates the world of corporate media armed only with his skill in kung fu...
alas.
Yeah, but Simon Pegg?
Just me then.
I would have cast Norm from Cheers instead of Bridges
Sorry but Simon Pegg AND Gillian Anderson are in it.I'm first in the queue.Especially considering he used to have a major thing for Scully to the point where he wrote that his character in 'Spaced' jerks off over her.Heh heh.
It still looks a hundred times better than Speed racer or Indy 4.Yes, it does.
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