Tue, July 11, 2006
Don't Fuck the Sea Nymph—11:02 AM
This week, TiVo is featuring a little behind-the-scenes clip from The Lady in the Water on its main screen. Whenever possible, I watch these little clips, because I assume TiVo tracks how many hits they get, and I want to encourage advertisers to keep giving TiVo money.
In it, we're reminded that Bryce Dallas Howard is just the cutest thing ever, and quite a compelling actress. (Also, a dead ringer for "Saffron" on Firefly.) Just who is Ron Howard married to, some sort of alien supermodel? Because it'd require a lot of counterbalance to get a child this fetching out of a gene pool that includes Clint Howard. Meanwhile, I'll need to get some achilles heel ointment, to stop all these bad movies from exploiting my weaknesses for certain directors and performers.
We also learn that the story for The Lady in the Water was originally a bedtime story that Night told his kids. Which just goes to show that he can't even tuck his children in without spinning some dopey, semi-coherent yarn with characters like "Tartutic" and a lackluster faux twist.
Must be a fun household. Shame he didn't end up as a rubik's cube champion and spare us all the trouble.
Joe Mulder — Tue, 7/11/06 12:15pm
Poor Clint Howard.
Bee Boy — Tue, 7/11/06 12:33pm
Oh, I don't know. I'd have to agree with Clint Howard himself, in his speech at the AFI Honors for Ronnie (paraphrased): "I'm the luckiest guy in the world."
Unless you mean, poor Clint, he has to sit next to her at family functions and no touching. I'm with you there.
Brandon — Tue, 7/11/06 1:10pm
I don't think anyone needs to feel pity for Clint. I mean, the looks thing, what's done is done, you know? He got dealt that hand at birth (though apparently it took a while to set in, because he worked as a child actor, and really, can you work as a child actor without at least being tangentially cute? Like even so weird-looking that you pass through ugly and warp back around into cute?). So the fact that he's been able to (with a little help from Ron) carve out a career in movies and TV despite looking a bit like the "Oh dear god what have I done!" result of a mad scientist's experiment, yeah, he is a very lucky guy.
Also, it has now become one of my missions in life to see this little nugget I found in his IMDB credits:
The Clint Howard Variety Show
"Originally conceived as a television pilot by Dreamworks, this incredibly low-budget creation showcases the talents (and nudity) of C-actor Clint Howard and his friends."
(Moments later...)
Yep, found it. They can be viewed as webisodes on his site:
http://www.clinthoward.com/
Gotta go watch!
Brandon — Tue, 7/11/06 1:40pm
Okay, NOW there's a need to feel pity for Clint. Yikes.
"Cherie" — Fri, 7/21/06 11:05am
What the hell is that?