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SXSW 2009 Announces Opening Film

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By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago
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We’ve still got awhile to wait for details on the full lineup, but last night SXSW announced that their opening night film. It’s I Love You, Man, a comedy starring Paul Rudd, Jason Segal and Rashida Jones, directed by John Hamburg. With that cast, it may sound like an Apatow thing, but it’s not; based on its IMDB listing, it actually looks like a more direct descendant of The State.

The film co-stars a couple of State guys, Thomas Lennon and Joe Lo Truglio (both now of Reno 911) and Hamburg directed several episodes of Stella, the sitcom version of the comedy act featuring State alumns Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter and David Wain. According to Scott Weinberg, who saw a cut of the film this part weekend at Harry Knowles’ Butt Numb-a-Thon, this “affable farce” is “just plain NICE” — which makes it sound a bit like Showalter’s 2005 directorial effort, The Baxter, in which Rudd also co-starred. It all comes full circle!

Michael Showalter on Tila Tequila

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By Karina Longworth posted 2 years ago
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showalter.pngMichael Showalter (writer/director/star of The Baxter; writer/co-star of Wet Hot American Summer) is blogging at PopWatch today to promote his new comedy CD, Sandwiches & Cats, which features guest appearances from Janeane Garofalo and Eugene Mirman. In his first blog entry, Showalter discusses that strange phenomenon that occurs on reality dating shows, wherein every single contestant claims to have fallen in love with the prize bachelor or bachelorette by the second episode. He’s particularly concerned with how this plays out on A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila:

The sad thing is that Tila can only fall-in love with one of them. There is only room in her heart for one man or woman. And that lucky guy or gal will be Tila’s new main squeeze, and he or she will know how hard-earned their relationship with Tila was. And years from now, when Tila and whomever she chooses are old and gray and living together somewhere secluded, they will look back at this experience and have an amazing tale to tell their grandchildren of how they met. What they won’t say is that their road to happiness was littered with broken hearts.