By Ray Pride Pride@moviecitynews.com
Putting the EW in Ewwwwwwww
Oh, Lord, this press release just came sailing over the transom: Entertainment Weekly (which likes to be called EW, which I presume they expect to be pronounced E-W) touts their Sundance bloggers: Billy Baldwin, Elle Fanning, Rainn Wilson and Tara Reid. Blogs Wilson, who acts in New Line topper Bob Shaye‘s The Last Mimzy, which screens for free on Tuesday night: “Hello everyone on the internet and in the world of entertainment. It’s me, Rainn Wilson, international superstar… promoting myself as un-official [sic] “spokesman of a generation” and gynecologist to the stars… I’m here because of the greatest movie ever made, The [L]ast Mimzy… I am actually raped by Dakota Fanning in this film. It was very disturbing and is causing quite an uproar in the blogosphere… So anyhoo, check out the family sci-fi epic adventure, The Last Mimzy and you will see my thighs. Good-bye.” Tara Reid: “HI its Tara Reid and i’m in Sundance its freezing here but alot of fun and alot of work my movie premieres tonight and i’m really excited.” Baldwin? “What can I tell ya… I don’t know what bothers me more about Sundance: all of the free shit that they give to the rich and famous who don’t need it, or the way that I behave when thrown into the den of swag. I can sit here and pretend that I’m above it all, but in reality, after being given free iPods and Razr telephones, jewelry and vacations, if my grandmother–may she rest in peace–stood between me and the last Philips flat screen television, I’d lay her out right on her ass for that bad boy. I hired a publicist to come here with me because I had two films…. She wound up becoming my swag mule, schlepping the hoards up and down Main Street so that I didn’t look like the gluttonous whore that I am in front of the throngs of media and paparazzi.” [Apparently Carrot Top was not available to serve.]