Phoenix could headline Belushi biopic
The great John Belushi died on March 5, 1982. Casting speculation about the inevitable biopic started the next morning. But “inevitable” melted into “unlikely” and the darned thing never did get made. (Nobody counts the cheapo 1989 bomb Wired, based on Bob Woodward’s book that everybody says was unfair.)
Lots of people in Hollywood have flirted with the idea of a serious biopic, most recently director Todd Phillips and Warner Bros., about three years ago. The writer on that one was Steve Conrad, who wrote the upcoming remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
Enough backstory. Let’s move on. The Hollywood Reporter now says Conrad is trying to get organized to direct a biopic himself. Star names floated so far include Emile Hirsch, Adam DeVine and Joaquin Phoenix.
Glory days: Billy Bob Thornton, once married to Angelina Jolie, is bound and determined that nobody will ever forget that. You just can’t shut the man up about her.
“I blew my marriage to Angelina,” he now tells The Sun, in England. “I thought I was not good enough for her and I was too insecure.”
They were married from 2000 to 2003.
Annals of marketing: Deep Ellum, a Dallas brewery, has a brand called Dallas Blonde. The label shows a chubby cartoonish girl’s face, with big bright yellow hair.
This stuff’s been on the market for a year, and has been doing OK, so the brewery launched an ad campaign. They chose the slogan “Goes down easy.”
The excrement promptly impacted the ventilation system. One blogger went so far as to say the slogan “fuelled the acceptability” of rape culture. That may be a stretch but you can see why people would be offended.
Music remedy: I’m not saying it will replace “medical” marijuana, but it turns out that people in pain, physical pain, feel better after hearing the Simon & Garfunkel classic Bridge Over Troubled Water.
A British pharmacy chain, Lloyds, surveyed 1,500 customers and found that 41 per cent of them, including 66 per cent of those aged 16 to 24, say music eases pain. Top choice: Bridge.