Richard Dreyfuss, who plays Dick Cheney in Oliver Stone’s W, was recently promoting the film on The View.  Surprisingly, he actually managed to get a few words in between the chirps of those braindead harpies, and not only that, he actually sounded honest, possibly even intelligent.  The clip is long as hell but here are the highlights:

1:50 Harpy: “In order to play someone, you have to draw on something positive about that person, do you not?”
Dreyfuss: “No, not really.”

3:34 Harpy: “What made you agree to do this film?”
Dreyfuss: “Money.”

3:43 Harpy: “What did you think of the film?”
Dreyfuss: “I think it’s six eighths of a great film.  I think the acting is good and a lot of the writing is good, but I don’t really know why Oliver didn’t come to a conclusion with it.”

4:05 Harpy:  “What was it like working with Oliver Stone?”
Dreyfuss: “Well, imagine working for Sean Hannity.”
The Pretty, Stupid One: “I would like that.”
[Assorted chirping]
4:17 Dreyfuss, forced to explain: “You can be a fascist even when you’re on the left.”

Ripping his own director, wow, check out the stones on Mr. Holland. I never thought I’d say these words, but Richard Dreyfuss seems pretty cool.

Actually, it was the actress who played Ann Coulter in Oliver Stone’s W.  Anne Pressly, also a news anchor for KATV in Little Rock, is in critical condition after being found beaten in her home early yesterday.

Pressly was found unresponsive in her bed and a police report said she was bleeding from her head. [Police spokesperson] Davis said Pressly was in critical condition at a hospital.
Davis said Pressly was stabbed, but KATV cited investigators later in reporting that all of her injuries were from being beaten in the head and upper body.

The police have no motive at this time. So, pretty depressing, actually.  Our thoughts and prayers are with the family.  Sorry to get your hopes up with that headline.

[via AP, DHD]

Here’s the part where I tell you what’s opening tonight. Click on the titles for trailers.

Max Payne - I’ll say this for it, the action scenes look pretty cool. You can really see the difference when you compare it to, say, Punisher. But all the critics hate it and it looks like it’s trying really really hard to be dark and disturbing even though it’s PG-13. Has there ever been a good movie based on a video game? Why the f-ck do they keep making these? Say hi to your mother for me. IN HELL.

Sex Drive – About a guy who goes on a drive in order to get laid. Get it? A sex drive. He’s going on a drive, for sex, and it’s also his desire for sex which drives him. Should I start over? Anyway, the Big Mexican Won’t Go Down scene was kinda funny.

W – Oliver Stone is the white Spike Lee. Even when I’m entertained by his movies I feel like I need a shower afterward. Everything you need to know is perfectly summed up by the plane scene in Any Given Sunday: Coach Pacino sits next to his young black quarterback Jamie Foxx in a desperate attempt to relate. PACINO: Whatcha listenin’ to? JAMIE FOXX: **takes out headphones** Trick Daddy. PACINO: Huh, I don’t know him. I really like jazz. Ya ever listen to jazz? JAMIE FOXX: **Shakes head** Rap. PACINO: What about Miles Davis? You ever listen to Miles Davis? JAMIE FOXX: **Shakes head** PACINO: Well, maybe I’ll make you a tape some time. JAMIE FOXX: **holds up CD and taps it** CDs. PACINO: **nods sadly, stares off in space – the generation gap is too wide!**

The Secret Life of Bees – Dear Diary: Today I flew around gathering the shit out of some pollen. I tell ya, we’re gonna be dick deep in some motherf-ckin honey this year. But no matter how hard I work, it’s never enough for the queen. I don’t know where she gets off. She doesn’t even have wings or a stinger like other queens, she’s just some matronly black chick. And she’s always spouting some corny southern “wisdom”. God she gets on my nerves. I mean, can’t she play any other role?

What Just Happened – This is supposed to be a Hollywood satire, and yet Sean Penn’s in it. Now, Sean Penn is a great actor, but he couldn’t even handle it when Chris Rock made a that-guy’s-in-every-movie joke about Jude Law at the Oscars. Says Roger Ebert: “This isn’t a Hollywood satire, it’s a sitcom. The flywheels of the plot machine keep it churning around, but it chugs off onto the back lot and doesn’t hit anybody in management.” Oh boy, Entourage the movie. I say rent see Tropic Thunder instead.

Oliver Stone was on Bill Maher’s HBO show over the weekend, and between discussing his experiences in Vietnam and as a Yale classmate of both George W. Bush and John Kerry, he of course discussed his new movie W.  He does a great job of explaining that his film will be more than the same stupid chain emails and Bushism of the day calendars we’ve been passing around for the last 8 years.

“You don’t have to go out of your way… You can make fun of Bush and he’s a parody, but look at the guy, you don’t have to make it up.  The guy speaks for himself.  People think they know George Bush but they don’t.  The guy’s a bit like the Wizard of Oz.”

Great speech right?  But then right afterwards I jumped on the internet to look at amputee porn what did I see? A brand new banner ad for W:

Way to go, Ollie.  “We don’t need to make fun of Bush, we’ll just take a picture of him on the shitter!”  Thank God I have people like Ollie to properly articulate my nuanced point of view.  Oh, and by the way, any native English speaker who goes out of his way to pronounce “déjà vu” with properly accented French hasn’t gotten has ass kicked nearly enough. (3:15 mark of the video – does anyone know how to make a loop of that?)

[Picture source = JoBlo, Video source = RopeofSilicon]

As if I haven’t covered this movie enough already, here’s the full-length trailer for W, in which Oliver Stone promises to show us what an incompetent jackass President Bush is, just in case you haven’t been around for the last eight years. 

On another note, this movie reminds me of a humorous email I once received.