By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
Reeler Link Dump: Sinus Headache Edition
In case this dizzying head pain strikes me dead before I can get my antibiotics prescription filled, check out the latest New York murmurings from around the Web:
—Murderball co-director Dana Adam Shapiro (left) has signed a deal with Paramount to adapt and direct the film version of his 2005 novel The Every Boy. Brad Pitt’s Plan B shingle will produce, while Roger Friedman will continue to fuck Shapiro’s name up no matter who or what is attached.
–indieWIRE notes that director Bennett Miller will be signing Capote DVD’s tonight at 6 at the Tower Records on Broadway at West 4th Street. Miller’s underappreciated 1998 debut The Cruise will be available for sale and signature as well, but just because you have not heard of it does not mean you get to go haggling a buy-one-get-one-free deal out of the guy. This is an Oscar nominee, after all. Behave yourself.
—David Spade did lunch with Boldface’s Paula Schwartz Monday at the Four Seasons, laughing it up over a former assistant’s stun-gun attack and trailing off nonsensically about Tom Cruise:
“I’ll go after who I go after,” he said. “I don’t care.” Then: “I just, the only problem is that it’s been done, it was done well by. …” He paused. “We just got to think of a new angle.”
It is peculiar to see Spade keep his cards so close to his vest, especially considering that Comedy Central should be recalling it to wardrobe any day now after it cancels his show. Nevertheless, you have to admit that the terror in his eyes is kind of cute.
–In New York Post business news, booze and stripper stocks declined after a day of light trading on the East Side. Futures were mixed.
–If you thought Liza Minelli’s career renaissance was nothing but an archive-aided fluke, the genius behind the blog fourfour has a wake-up call for you.
(Photo: The Age)