This past weekend the SF Sketchfest closed out with a performance by the legendary Kids In The Hall. And by legendary I mean I got to hear a lot about them as a kid, but since we didn’t have cable I never saw the show. Oh sure, when I got to college I could’ve stayed in all day, smoked pot and drank my roomate’s homemade absinthe while catching up on KITH reruns on Comedy Central, but I was on the six year plan. Those luxuries are reserved for 8th year Seniors only.
Which means that the KITH mean almost squat to me, and I wasn’t able to join in the ultrasuperenthusiasm of the rest of the staff. I dunno about you, but I feel that performers/filmmakers/famous journalists are people too and don’t really merit anything more than make a cinch more consideration for their privacy, since everyone else treats public figures like they’re demigods with the power to bestow wonderment with their slightest touch.
Except for Scarlet Johansen, who is a demigod. I won’t say what her touch bestows, and I doubt you have to wonder.
I was, however, a fan of NewsRadio, which is both perfectly natural and slightly ironic if you know me. Enough of a fan that after watching Dave Foley, the Kid in the Hall who starred on NewsRadio as Dave Nelson hyper-anal retentive news director of a NYC news station staffed by lunatics and the approachably hot Maura Tierney, get cornered by a rabid group of fans from Visalia for a half hour I had to step in and save him.
So I could ask him, gently, why the hell he would choose to work with Uwe Boll of all people. Which he did in a movie that opens this weekend, but I won’t link to it because its Uwe-fucking-Boll.
Turns out Dave is a big fan of Troma Entertainment, the auteurs behind such classics as The Toxic Avenger and Tromeo and Juliet. Which means he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to work with the current king of shlock. Plus Dave says”the original script they sent me was pretty good.” Unfortunately it wasn’t what they filmed, with lots of on set rewrites that took the movie away from the only chance it had to be a quarter decent.
That’s a fair reason to work with Uwe Boll. Ben Kingsley has no excuse.
