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What a Week It's Bean! (May 30 - June 5)

Written by spunkybean staff

Friday, 05 June 2009 14:00

Happy Friday! Hope everybody had a fine week. We assume your week was dominated by Up, the splended new Pixar movie. Thanks to its success, Ed Asner is starring in the #1 movie in America, and you can't put a price on that. By the way, we recommend seeing it twice - once in 3D for, you know, the 3D. Then see it in the traditional 2D to really enjoy the colors. Just a little tip from us to you.

As we were assembling this week's installment, the news broke that David Carradine was found

dead in Bangkok. We'd prefer not to get into the circumstances of his death, but he was a long-time favorite. From Kung Fu to his guest run on Alias, he was always fun to watch. And sometimes, he'd show up in a direct-to-video release that would turn out to just be insane. If Carradine's in the credits, you should watch it.

There's a deeply weird movie he made in the late 80's that you should try to find. It's called Sonny Boy, and I'm not entirely sure it's on DVD, but it is on VHS. It's the story of a gangleader who raises a feral boy inside a grain silo so that he can be an assassin. It's not necessarily good, but you can't stop watching it. David Carradine played the gangleader's wife, Pearl. And you may assume that Pearl is a transvestite, but everybody talks to and about her as if she's biologically a woman. There's a really awesome shot of David Carradine in full drag jumping through a window with guns in both hands. Again, I can't really say that it's good, but I can say that it's kind of fantastic.

And now, silliness!

Scientists are hoping to create a drug that will make obese people more likely to exercise. A drug that makes people desire to do physical activity and lose weight?! If only it wasn't too late to save Elvis Presley. Too soon? (cp)

Arrested Development star Jeffrey Tambor's wife is expecting twin boys. That's right, the man is 64

years old with a couple of kids on the way. If I know anything about celebrity genetics, and I think I do, one can expect to grow into a dishonest corporate icon, while the other will be a trailer-bound hippie. Twins run in Tambor's TV family after all!

That's the Arrested Development report! Confusing real people with the Bluths since 2008. (ej)

Jennifer Lopez is reportedly afraid to return to the set of her upcoming movie The Back-Up Plan, because she's afraid she's forgotten "how to act". Oh, honey. That happened long ago. Probably sometime before Maid in Manhattan. (ej)

The pointless reboot of Short Circuit continues on, with a writer finally being named. Dan Miliano, of

Robot Chicken, has taken the thankless job. That's great, because you know what's going to salvage this movie? Endless references to farting and Lindsay Lohan being drunk. (ej)

spunkybean has learned that one of the sextuplets from Jon and Kate Plus 8 fame is getting a new reality show called I'm a Gosselin. Get Me Out of Here. Don't bother researching this. We promise it's true. (cp)

Actress Heather Graham said in an interview that she's a practicing witch and that President Obama owes her. "My friends all really wanted Obama to be elected, so we all did a spell. And then he got elected." Let's pretend that "did a spell" is regional slang for "voted". Otherwise, we have to confront the possibility that Heather Graham might be the stupidest person alive. (ej)

Relax, friends. The Bruno/Eminem bit from the MTV Movie Awards was a set up! Didn't you know Slim Shady was a good actor after watching 8 Mile? Sheesh. (cp)

Universal bought the movie rights to Where's Waldo? I don't even know what to say. It's a series of books about crowd scenes. While this is a phenomenally bad idea, if they cast Rainn Wilson as Waldo, I'm totally in! (ej)

You guys, this is seriously a real movie trailer. Watch it now and thank me later.