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Naomi Campbell Lands Role in Spike Lee's New Film
Filed under: Drama », Casting », War »
If there is one thing that can strike fear in the hearts of moviegoers everywhere, it's the term "model-turned-actress". I mean, has anyone seen Fair Game? Truly scary. Vogue UK is now reporting that runway bad-girl Naomi Campbell has signed on for a role in Spike Lee's new film about African-American serviceman during WWII. The film was adapted from James McBride's novel Miracle at St. Anna, and first gained ink when Lee had made some controversial comments to the press while scouting locations in Italy back in July. Lee told reporters, "If you look at the history of Hollywood, the black soldiers who fought WWII are totally invisible," -- although, he is hardly the first to notice the oversight.Campbell has worked with Lee once before, when she had a small role in his phone-sex worker flick Girl 6 -- and since I'm in the small minority who enjoyed the film, I can say with certainty that acting was definitely not her strong point. But, Campbell has racked up a few small roles and cameos over the years. According to Vogue (via Campbell): "It's a very very small role but it involves subject matter that I'm really passionate about...I'll do anything for Spike and I really think we should be more educated about the role of people of colour in our history". So, it looks like it's strictly the sidelines for the untried actress. Campbell did tell Vogue, however, that there will be some announcements about the film soon and that it could be out in theaters as early as next year. One thing is for sure -- if she gets a little upset while on the set, someone might want to tell her assistants to duck.
Fuqua, Campbell, and Malkovich Sell Tires
Filed under: Shorts », Fandom »
Italian tire-maker Pirelli must have a whole lot of
money and very little space in which to store it, or something, because obscene salaries are the only possible
explanation for John
Malkovich and Antoine
Fuqua's collaboration on the hideously
bad, tire-selling short, The Call. In the film, Malkovich plays a priest who is called to perform an
exorcism on ... a car. Which, obviously, is possessed by Naomi Campbell, who has black wings and appears to have scaled
up her weapon choice rather dramatically from the cell phone she was
(allegedly) wielding last week. While I will confess to chuckling when Evil Naomi rid the car of Malkovich's holy
water by turning on the windshield wipers, the revelation that all she really wanted was better tires is so silly that
it's not even worth mocking. But, you know, far be it for me to judge if the thing sells tires or not. Maybe if I had a car, I'd suddenly be desperate to buy something from Pirelli. Because, really, who doesn't need tires that ward off evil?
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