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Think Short On Cash: Trade Roughage 05/13/08

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  • The Variety headline: “Production Resumes on [David O'Russell's] Nailed,” which had been shut down due to the production company’s failure to pay union fees last week. The real story: ThinkFilm, and its financial backers, Capitol Films, are having trouble paying the bills. Not only did Alex Gibney threaten a bankruptcy lawsuit after a promised bonus for his Oscar win for Taxi to the Dark Side never materialized, but the mini studio is apparently in a such a cash crunch that they’re having trouble paying for newspaper ads for their current releases, and are expected to stay out of the buying fray at Cannes.
  • Another day, another sign that I should stop eating bagels whilst reading the trades, lest I choke to death: The Weinstein Company is making a live-action feature version of Fraggle Rock.
  • Steve Martin has sold a pitch to Paramount for a comedy called From Zero to Sixty, which would star he and Diane Keaton. Also, Pink Panther 3 is coming! You can exhale!

Diane Keaton’s Backhanded F-Bomb. Clip of the Day.

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dianekeatonlips.pngOh, the things I miss not having a TV. On Good Morning America this morning to promote the unwatchably bad-looking chick heist flick Mad Money, Diane Keaton snuck “the f word” into a tossed-off, backhanded comment directed at GMA host Diane Sawyer. You can watch the relevant segment here, but here’s the money quote:

Keaton: (gesturing) Those lips! I love ‘em. I’d like to have lips like that.

Sawyer: (laughs uncomfortably at the complement–what’s she gonna do, offer the number of her Botox dealer?)

Keaton: Then I wouldn’t have worked on my fucking personality!

(Whole studio erupts into nervous, shocked laughter)
Keaton: Or my — excuse me — my personality! If I had lips like yours, I’d be better off! My life would be better. I’d be married!

As if we needed another reason to love Diane Keaton, not only does she casually curse like a sailor on morning TV, she does so whilst basically accusing Diane Sawyer–who, it should be noted, is a year older than Keaton–of coasting on her looks like a bimbo. Keaton grumbles about having had to “work on her personality,” but it seems like it worked for her––didn’t she famously date every eligible bachelor in Hollywood between, like, 1975 and 1983? And that line about how if she had Sawyer’s lips, she would be married––is she jealous that the other Diane nabbed Mike Nichols? Was he considered a catch in the 80s?

Sigh. It doesn’t really matter. No one does unaccountably crazy like you, Diane Keaton, and for that, I salute you.