<![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, shootout]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: defamer, shootout]]> http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/shootout http://gawker.com/tag/defamer/shootout <![CDATA[Michael Bay Pays Tribute To His Shit-Blowing-Up Forebears]]> "On Sunday, June 29," the web-blurb legend goes, "Shootout aired a 'Best of' episode on Summer Blockbusters. Guests Jon Favreau, Michael Bay, and Brett Ratner shared their experiences working on major summer spectaculars." And so it was written, and so it should come to pass, that through the magic of repackaging, three of Hollywood's most venerated fauxteurs should share reminiscences and insights with Variety's Peter Bart and Peter Guber. Highlighted above, an exchange with Transformers director and unwitting spondylitis spokesperson, Michael Bay: Acknowledging Bart's observation that he was born into box-office brothels, Bay goes on to pay loving tribute to shlock-piloting cicerones Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. (Note their imposing, circa-Days of Thunder publicity-shot in high-contrast B&W.) Without them, not a single extraneous helicopter explosion or lingering shot of Megan Fox's ass-crack would ever have been possible.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=397563&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Wes Anderson Still Tired Of Answering The Owen Wilson Question]]>
On yesterday's edition of AMC's Shootout, chat-happy Hollywood Peters Bart and Guber invited director Wes Anderson to talk about The Darjeeling Limited, inevitably touching on Anderson's understandable reticence at having to address the Owen Wilson Situation each time he fulfills his promotional obligations for the film. (The media, it seems, have an annoying habit of comparing the real-life Wilson to the troubled, possibly suicidal character he portrays in the movie.)

But in an attempt to keep the conversation regarding the unpleasant reality of having tragedy impinge upon art from getting too heavy, Peter Bart shares an amusing anecdote about how the death of Jim Carrey's career during the first week of shooting the 2003 Fun with Dick and Jane remake forced him to try and "cut around" his star, a tough decision that ultimately could not salvage the doomed project.

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