Originally they wanted Amy Winehouse to do the theme song for the new James Bond movie Quantum of Solace (trailer), but she was busy building an orphanage in Kenya. Just kidding of course, she was doing drugs. Anyway, they got Jack White and Alicia Keys instead.
The song, "Another Way to Die," will be the first duet in Bond soundtrack history. White wrote and produced the song, and also will play drums. The soundtrack to the movie will be released Oct. 28.
No one’s heard the song yet, but I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it’s whiney sounding.
Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong are both alive, and are reuniting for their first comedy tour in 25 years.
Marin and Chong, who broke up amid creative differences, have tried to reunite before, but have always fought too much. Marin laughed and said: "It takes about 3 minutes for that to happen. There’s this veiled hatred." But he added: "We’ve kind of resolved that. We’ve gotten to the age where we don’t feel like fighting anymore because the end is a lot closer than the beginning," he said.
Marin said he thinks pot humor can be as funny today as it was back in the ’70s. "I think it’s time for a revival of dope jokes. It’s a much bigger audience now, it’s much more widespread and institutionalized," he said in an interview earlier this month.
Details of the "Hey, What’s That Smell?" tour were to be announced Wednesday at a news conference in West Hollywood, California, according to concert promoter Live Nation.
During their original run, Marin and Chong released nine comedy albums between 1972 and 1985, were nominated for four Grammy Awards and won one. They also starred in eight feature films, almost always portraying a pair of comical stoners stumbling through life. [USA Today]
I’m excited for their reunion, but there’s a lot of competition out there in the comedy world these days so I hope they know what they’re up against. I mean, have you heard of this Dane Cook kid? They say he’s a real "live wire".
One of the roughly 18 thousand movies Judd Apatow will be producing is Get Him to the Greek, starring Russell Brand and Jonah Hill. Chud now reports that the movie will actually be a spinoff starring Brand’s character from Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
This time, Brand’s rock star character has fallen off the wagon and Jonah Hill has to get him safe and in one piece to LA’s Greek Theater for a show.
Sarah Marshall director Nicholas Stoller has written and will be directing this one, which Apatow seemed very excited about.
I enjoyed Sarah Marshall, but there’s no way I’m gonna be able to sit through an entire movie of this guy if he looks anything like this picture in it. He looks like he wants me to be a Hare Krishna, and all I can think about is wanting to hit him in the face with a shovel. Though I suppose that’s how I feel about all Hare Krishnas. Pretty much everyone, really. I guess when it comes down to it, I just like to hit things with shovels.
Religulous is an upcoming documentary from Bill Maher and director Larry Charles (Borat, Curb Your Enthusiasm). In this clip, Maher visits a burqa store in order to… uh, in order to do material, it looks like. I like to make fun of people as much as the next guy (who’s probably a douchebag), but if I were standing in front of a scary, stone-faced Muslim, I’d at least pretend to listen to what he was saying. I also wouldn’t show up with a chick wearing a tank top. That’s probably the equivalent of showing up with a naked hooker covered in dog crap at a burqa store. But hey, as long as we’re insulting the guy’s way of life for cheap jokes, why not go with "Boy, this burqa really is ‘da bomb’. ‘Da bomb’, get it?"
"Hey, you guys think bees convince each other that they get 72 bee virgins in the afterlife if they sting you? Because they die right afterwards, so they’re kind of like the suicide bombers of the animal kingdom when you think about it. Is this thing on? I think we got a cold mike here."
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