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Posted Jul 9th 2009 11:04AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Saturday Night Live, Reality-Free

Hollywood's latest choice for a
Saturday Night Live film remake is both the strangest and most interesting choice they could make, short of a big screen "Weekend Update" action epic or a "Toonces the Cat" feature-length Pixar film.
Variety reports that Lorne Michaels and company are creating a
big-screen remake of the show's popular "MacGruber" sketches. Cast member Will Forte will take on the title role and pen the movie's script along with
SNL writers John Solomon and
Jorma Taccone, the latter of whom is better known as one-third of the musical comedy group The Lonely Island.
Kristen Wiig will also star as MacGruber's object grabbing sidekick Vicki. Ryan Phillipe and Val Kilmer have been attached to the project, but their roles haven't been nailed down yet.
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Posted Apr 2nd 2008 11:38AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Late Night, Talk Show, Reality-Free

You would think since Don Imus and his dumb attempt at humor got him kicked off of MSNBC that TV personalities would think before they joke. You would like to think that's true -- but it's not. In the latest bit of amazing insensitivity and stupidity, NBC's
Jay Leno has apologized for a gay gag.
The star of
Tonight was chatting with Ryan Phillippe the other night about the star's new film
Stop-Loss. Thanks to some crack researcher on the
Tonight writing staff, Jay decided to ask Ryan about one of his earliest acting jobs -- playing Billy Douglas, a closeted, gay teenager on
One Life to Live struggling with his sexual identity. In a flip way, Leno asked Ryan to show him what it was like when he was playing gay. He said, "Can you give me your gayest look? Say that camera is Billy Bob... Billy Bob has just ridden in shirtless from Wyoming."
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