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Before you start spewing out the names of Hollywood's most annoying men as if some sort of gag reflex has taken over your -- Rob Schneider! -- body, let me set this up for you: Variety tells us Disney has picked up a comedy script called The World's Most Annoying Man, written by Kevin Kopelow and Heath Seifert (those magicians behind Nick's Kenan and Kel), and so far no one has approached me to star ... which is good, I suppose. There's no director or cast attached yet, but Andy Fickman (director of upcoming Race to Witch Mountain) is producing.

And what could a film called The World's Most Annoying Man possibly be about? Animated squirrel chess champions? Um, no. Actually, the film will tell of a man who must travel across the country with his really annoying brother en route to his own wedding. Kinda sounds like Tommy Boy (or any buddy road movie for that matter), except tack on a wedding to the end. Great. Got it. So here's where the discussion comes in: Who, may I ask, would you cast as the world's most annoying man? Do you cast a really annoying actor like Jack Black or Andy Dick or someone else who's really annoying. OR, do you cast a funny actor who's great at playing an annoying man? Once you decide all that, tell us: Who do you think is Hollywood's most annoying man?

Years ago, Andy Dick was part of the Ben Stiller crew, showing up on the guy's show and in movies like Reality Bites and Permanent Midnight. Now, while one gears up for an excellent new comedy, the other just adds another notch to his pervert bedpost, according to AOL.

Dick (an apt last name, if I ever heard one) was arrested early today for drug use and sexual battery. He was being a drunken fool at the Buffalo Wild wings in Murrieta at about 1 AM when he peed on the building and then, when a 17-year-old girl walked by, he "grabbed her tank top and bra and pulled them down and exposed her breasts." Real classy, Dick.

Not surprisingly, cops found pot and Xanax in his pants during a search, and he's been booked on suspicion of felony possession of a controlled substance, misdemeanor sexual battery, and misdemeanor possession of marijuana." And if he wasn't creepy enough, I think that mugshot up there seals the deal.

Tip, Mr. Dick: Keep your drunken hands to yourself, and stop urinating in public.

It was over two years ago that we got the first installment of Hoodwinked! It did well enough in its first weekend, making $17 million dollars ($3 mil short of its cost), that #2 was put into the works. Now writer and voice Cory Edwards has been blogging about the second installment, and has listed the cast that Weinstein Co. has put together. Some voices remain, like Glenn Close, David Ogden Stiers, and Andy Dick. Oh, and we can't forget Patrick Warburton -- but it's not like anyone, ever, could replace him.

But there are also some new names to the mix. Red, who was voiced by Anne Hathaway, will now get the invincible hero Hayden Panettiere -- which Edwards says is a good fit because Red becomes "more of a 'caped crusader'" in the film. Meanwhile, James Belushi's The Woodsman will now be voiced by the unstoppable Jack Putter -- Martin Short. You can't really complain about a Short replacement, unless well, he was taking over for a rippling, glistening superhero -- then it would be weird.

But there's also some tasty new vocal talent coming along for the ride. Edwards says Joan Cusack will play a "villainous witch," Brad Garrett is The Giant (of the beanstalk variety), Wayne Newton of all people will be Jimmy Ten Strings -- the Giant's singing harp, David Alan Grier will play a troll, and to top it all off, Amy Poehler and Bill Hader will voice Hansel & Gretel. How's that for an all-star cast?

[via Ace Showbiz]

Things haven't been smooth sailing for Britney Spears. She's been tabloid fodder for ages now with tales of her emotional instability, messing up enough that Kevin Federline has become the stable one, and most recently, the fact that her lawyers have quit, saying that she's "impossible" to represent. It hasn't been pretty. You'd think that with her buckets of personal trouble she'd dip out of the spotlight and regroup, but not quite. MSNBC reports that she might be headed back to the big screen to star in a film called Memoirs of A Medicated Child.

According to 2 Guys and A Dream Films head Tommy Parker, the film will be based on the story of a man named Mark Black, who "was medicated as a child after he broke a bathroom window at school. He then battled with medicine for 27 years." Apparently, he finally got out of this pill cycle when he was in prison and started refusing his meds. This sounds like a fairly serious story, right? It's like Garden State without the romantic adventure. But as if the inclusion of Spears wasn't enough to throw this project into doubt, Andy Dick is also on the cast list, along with Adam Ropp, Samantha Falk, Ross Tyler, Peter Iacangelo, and Julie Gribble.

What would make them want Spears? (Or Dick, for that matter?) Sure, she's got the tabloid presence, but if she can't even make it to court hearings for her kids, how will she make it to set everyday when production begins later this month? Did they learn nothing from LiLo's problems last year? Personally, I can't begin to take this project seriously, but it has piqued my interest in a train wreck sort of way... How about you?

My, how actors can fall. It might have been painful to watch Jeff Conaway -- aka Kenickie in Grease -- sing a little bit of Tiffany's I Think We're Alone Now in Jawbreaker, but now we'll get to see him try to get clean on reality television. While he doesn't get the gossip numbers of someone like La Lohan, he's had his own share of turmoil. After he got kicked from his last reality show to enter rehab back in 2005, things must have gotten rough once again, because he's going to be one of the stars of VH1's latest reality trip -- Celebrity Rehab.

This latest foray into celeb mockery stars Dr. Drew as the man who will set the stars straight -- including actors Conaway, Brigitte Nielsen, and Daniel Baldwin, according to A Socialite's Life, plus Tom Sizemore and Andy Dick, according to IMDb. I don't know what's their "reality," and whether any are recreations, but in that link above you can see some snorting and toilet kissing screencaps from ET. Lovely, eh? Is there any barrier that won't be crossed by reality television? My guess is that we'll soon get movies-behind-the-scenes, where films get made with people who are feuding, who have short tempers, drug addictions, or have a tendency to hop into bed with their co-stars. After that, maybe Celebrity Dick -- a skilled private eye digs up dirt on your favorite celebrities?

But it does put things into perspective. There's actors who get mocked for personal tidbits that get leaked to the press, and then there's those who choose to deal with them for the enjoyment of the public. Poor Kenickie. Maybe he can get a job with Michelle Pfieffer in Grease 3?

Jonathan Kesselman wrote and directed The Hebrew Hammer, a comedy about an Orthodox Jewish Blaxploitation hero (Adam Goldberg) who saves Hanukkah from the evil offspring of Santa Claus (Andy Dick). The film has become a cult favorite, and you should add it to your holiday viewing list this year. In addition to being a successful screenwriter, Jonathan teaches Writing Comedy for Film and Television at Yale University. He has some great tips for aspiring comedy writers.

Cinematical: When did you know you wanted to be a writer?

Jonathan Kesselman: I always loved writing. When I was in the 5th grade, I was pulled out of my class and put onto the 12th grade yearbook staff writing copy. For a while, I thought I wanted to be a journalist. In college, I majored in Psychology -- neuroscience was my field. I realized that I didn't like slicing rat brains. I remember really searching for what it was that I wanted to do with my life. And I had always been obsessed with movies. I remember having this existential crisis pre-graduation, and then seeing a documentary on Your Show of Shows, and it hit me that I was put on this earth to make fun of people.

Cinematical: So you threw the rat in the air triumphantly...

JK: I ate the rat -- tasty! Yeah, I graduated, and decided I wanted to go to film school. I eventually went to graduate school at USC for film production.

The parade of stars keeps growing over at "loose remake" headquarters where they're currently working on the Jessica Simpson starrer Blonde Ambition. Joining a cast which already includes Andy Dick, my former neighbor Rachael Leigh Cook and, somewhat inexplicably, Luke Wilson, is Penelope Ann Miller -- according to a recent article in The Hollywood Reporter.

The film, as our own Erik reported previously, features Simpson doing her best Melanie Griffith impression and slugging through an updated (aka "loose remake") version of the 1988 hit Working Girl. Miller will play the Sigourney Weaver role in the film as the conniving boss seeking to impair Simpson's character and her rise to the top of the corporate ladder. Now, I'm going to take off my cynical hat for a moment and try not to bag on this film too much. Even with a story cribbed from another film and a production company like Nu Image, some of the people involved in this project actually have some talent.

Obviously, Luke Wilson has done some solid work, as has Cooke and Penelope Ann Miller. And directer Scott Marshall has made one or two decent comedies in his somewhat short career. So, this movie might just have a chance if it wasn't for one tiny little problem that will almost surely send it straight to video: Jessica Simpson. Sure, she's nice to look at but I'm almost positive that won't be enough this time -- especially when she's supposed to be the lead in the film and has to do some actual acting. Blonde Ambition is currently filming and looks to hit the shelves of your local Blockbuster sometime next Summer.

Way back in June we had Crazy Chris Campbell informing us that Lionsgate had just purchased North American distribution rights to Happily N'Ever After, a CG-animated fairy tale spoof from the producer of Shrek -- and today we get our very first peek at the long-gestating project. ComingSoon.net is where you'll find the goods.

The plot deals with all the heroic fairy tale characters dealing with conflict from all the villains ... or something like that. (Let's give it up for characters in the public domain!) What I find most amusing is the voice cast. We got Sarah Michelle Gellar as Ella (as in Cinderella), Sigourney Weaver as an evil witch (cool!), Freddie Prinze Jr., Andy Dick, Patrick Warburton, Jon Polito, Wallace Shawn and George Carlin -- and when I say "amusing," I actually mean it. Most of those actors have pretty funny voices!

So in addition to the previously linked clip, this just-discovered teaser trailer at YouTube, and a release date of January 5, I can also inform you that both the writer and the director are first-time filmmakers. But hey, I liked Hoodwinked, so I think this flick looks pretty, well, amusing.

How many computer-animated satires of fairy tales can we possibly tolerate? Lionsgate is hoping at least one more since they have acquired Happily N'Ever After for distribution in North America. The film is a version of the Cinderella story and takes place in Fairy Tale Land, where a war is brewing between good and evil characters. Voicing these characters are Sigourney Weaver, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze, Jr., George Carlin, Patrick Warburton, Andy Dick and Wallace Shawn.

Shrek was witty enough in its poking fun of of fairy tales, and even went a bit too far with the jokes, in my opinion. Since then Shrek 2 and Hoodwinked have further driven the gags into the ground, and I can only expect this movie to be more of the same. Is it necessary to keep ripping off Shrek? Considering the box office for Hoodwinked wasn't anywhere near what the two Shrek films were, we know that kids aren't simply into the premise. This time the copy has more in common with the original, though, as Happily was produced by Shrek producer John H. Williams. We'll just have to wait until early next year to see if there's any interest in this, but my guess is the kids will just wait for Shrek the Third, which comes out in May.

I've seen way too many movies over the past five days. Here's a few mini-reviews, in the interest of sanity, time and space.

Motorcycle

Here's a case of transparency doing more harm than good. After the premiere of this, his debut feature, Paul Gordon gave away a little too much information about its development. The filmmaker explained that his triptych treatment of a motorcycle's journey through three owners took him three years to complete – partially, because an actress dropped out, forcing him to re-conceptualize the third act entirely, and partially because he shot each segment separately as end-of-the-year projects whilst in film school at UT. The methodology explains a little too much. Motorcycle starts strong, as we follow Chris, a recently dumped 20-something professional, through a few sulky days of newfound singledom. Once it's clear that the girlfriend won't be back for the bra and panties that Chris has carefully tacked on the wall (at anatomically correct intervals) under her picture, Chris channels his post-breakup ennui into remaking himself as some kind of motorcycle-riding mercenary, on the hunt for the perfect jelly donut. It's a great concept and character, and actor Chris Pratt brings enough genuine pathos to the role to inject some kind of integrity onto his absurd plight, making his loopy desperation recognizable to anyone familiar with sudden singleness. Unfortunately, the second and third segments drift away from Chris, toward new characters and into the realm of the so-what, For a student film, Motorcycle's black and white cinematography looks great, and there are occasional bright spots even when it's really, really dull, but one wonders why Gordon felt the need to stretch the concept into a messy, ultimately unsatisfying feature when he could have stopped at a near-brilliant short.

Fired!

Beware: D-listers now have access to the tools of production, and the result is not so much ugly as really, really silly.  In this "documentary", Annabelle Gurwitch, the former star of Dinner and a Movie (yes, that show that used to be on basic cable where they'd cook meals vaguely related to films like Weird Science) hangs out with superstar friends like Illeana Douglas and the guy who plays Jeff on Curb Your Enthusiasm, does her best (still bad) Mary Tyler Moore impersonation, and tells us 497 times that she got fired by Woody Allen. Even better, after she's spent something like 45 minutes convincing us of how cute and bubbly and superficial she can be, she flies to Michigan to do a 10-minute remake of Roger and Me. Such a stunt could have been offensive, if it wasn't so boring. Does Gurwitch really think she's Making a Difference? And if so, why is she hanging out on a roach coach with Andy Dick? The film's tagline? "Rejection has never been this funny!" That says more than I ever could.