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The Office's Mock-Hanging No Laughing Matter for Mental Health Groups
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One could say that Michael Scott hangs himself regularly on The Office. But his latest stunt has more people squirming than usual.
The American Federation for Suicide Prevention was put off by last week's Halloween episode of the Emmy-winning sitcom, in which Steve Carell's character slips a noose around his neck and fakes a hanging to scare a group of young visitors to Dunder-Mifflin's haunted house.
"Kids, just remember, suicide is not the answer. It is the easy way out," Michael reminds them afterward.
Same old delusional Michael, maybe, but a really inappropriate line according to the people whose mission it is to educate about mental illness and prevent others from taking their own lives.
Steve Carell Hits the Clubs for New Film
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Caddyshack, Happy Gilmore…Missing Links?
Even if you don't spend all your time watching The Golf Channel, you still have to be pleased Steve Carell has decided to make a comedy set in the world of golf, according to The Hollywood Reporter's Risky Business blog.
Why? Because as those other movies prove, golf can be really, really funny. (The Legend of Bagger Vance, notwithstanding).
Based on a novel by ESPN's Rick Reilly, Missing Links features a foursome who conspire to graduate from their shoddy municipal course—one in which an elevated train passes through—to play at a fancy shmancy local club nearby. Hijinks, we imagine, ensue.
Can't wait to see who accidentally gets hit in the groin first.
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Who else is going to work? Check out our Casting Couch gallery!
Wahlberg, Franco Cozy Up to Date Night
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Mark Wahlberg is a Francophile. And, apparently, a Fey-ophile. Not to mention a Carell-ophile.
Wahlberg and James Franco are leading the pack as the latest bold-faced names flocking to the Steve Carell and Tina Fey-starring big-screen comedy Date Night.
According to Variety, Gossip Girl Leighton Meester, rapper Common, Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson, SNL utility player Kristen Wiig and Jimmi Simpson (aka David Letterman's erstwhile intern Lyle and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia scene-stealer) round out the funnybone-tickling cast.
The all-star flick centers on a married couple, played by the Must-See TV stars, whose dinner and a movie date night goes horribly—and dare we say, comedically—awry when they become the victims of mistaken identity.
Steve Carell Swaps Office for General Store
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Not that it's too difficult a feat to achieve, but Steve Carell just surpassed Michael Scott in the battle of small business prowess.
The Office star is now the proud owner of a local landmark general store in the historic village of Marshfield Hills, Mass., where Carell and wife Nancy Walls own a summer home.
"This is much more of an emotional investment than a business one," Carell told the Boston Globe. "I saw an opportunity to help preserve a little piece of history."
Expect applications for assistant to the regional general store manager to start pouring in any day now.
Hookup Alert! Smith & Spielberg Ready to Be Boys
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Tom Cruise. Check. Tom Hanks. Check. Will Smith...
Steven Spielberg is about to shrink his A-list to-do list, with news that Mr. Blockbuster is ready to collaborate with Tinseltown's top director.
The superstars are in talks to team up for the thriller Oldboy, per Variety. Universal is remaking the acclaimed 2003 flick by Korean filmmaker Chan Wook-park about a man who tries to figure out the mystery behind his abduction and 15-year captivity.
This would be the first collaboration for Spielberg and Smith, who have long expressed a desire to work together and, presumably, generate bucketloads of box office.
Meanwhile, Steve Carell and Keri Russell top the rest of the day's Casting Couch:
Casting Couch: The Adventures of Steve Carell
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• Steve Carell's got a Napoleon complex. The Get Smart star is dumbing down to play the title character in The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard, per Variety. The comedy (what else?) centers on a Clouseau-like buffoon in the French army during the Napoleonic Wars and is written by the guys behind Blades of Glory and inspired by stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
• Speaking of Blades of Glory, Will Arnett just scored some big bucks from Fox to create and star in his own sitcom for the 2009-10 season. Call it an arresting development deal.
• Da biopic! Da biopic! Fantasy Island fans have gotten a dream come true with word that Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve Zaillian is on the hunt for the perfect actor to fill the shoes of Hervé "Tattoo" Villechaize in the biopic My Dinner With Hervé. The film will be written and directed by ex-journalist Sacha Gervasi, the last person to interview Villechaize before his 1993 suicide.
Casting Couch: Carell, Hathaway Remain Employed
Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures
Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway have spied new jobs, Sarah Jessica Parker is on a hiring spree while hubby Matthew Broderick is back on the boards, and Kristen Bell has a new Boy in her life.
First up, the dynamic duo of Carell and Hathaway. Already on board for a Get Smart sequel, now they have each landed deals that will keep them fiirmly entrenched on Hollywood's A-list.
Carell Clocks In for More Office
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Michael Scott can look forward to putting in more long, hard, late nights at Dunder-Mifflin Scranton.
At least, that's what he said.
The "he" in this case being cocreator, executive producer and star of the original British version of The Office, Ricky Gervais, who revealed in a posting on his official website that Steve Carell has renewed his contract for the NBC hit.
Steve Carell, an Action Star with Great Sneakers
Funny guy, that Steve Carell, and he brought his game to our interview for Get Smart recently. Hit the clip to see what he tells me about his action-flick chops and the only nice thing costar/hottie Anne Hathaway ever said to him.
Carell Gets a Piece of The Rock
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"The Rock has softer lips...He smells like strawberry shortcake. For me, that's why they call him The Rock. He rocks people's worlds."
—Steve Carell describing to the Associated Press what it was like smooching his costar for a Get Smart scene
Steve Carell Drops the Funny Bomb
AP Photo/Chris Pizzello
"When I first heard I was getting this award, I called my mom and said, 'Mom, I'm getting the funniest motherf--king award...And she said, 'Get the f--k out.' Then she called out to my dad and said, 'Honey, our son is the funniest motherf--ker!' "
—Steve Carell, on accepting the (well-deserved, in our opinion) Funniest Motherf--ker honor at the Guys Choice Awards, airing June 22 on Spike TV
Exclusive
Get Smart Secrets Revealed
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Things nearly got bloody as Anne Hathaway tussled with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson on the set of the upcoming Get Smart movie.
The two were shooting a fight scene when Hathaway accidentally kicked Johnson in the head with the heel of her shoe, according to the film's director, Peter Segal.
"The stunt coordinator was saying, 'Her foot will come within six inches of your face, but from this angle it will look like it connects,' ” Segal told me earlier today. “Dwayne started to say, ‘This looks closer than six inches. Are you sure she’s going to be able to pull her kick in time so she doesn’t hit me?’ The stunt coordinator said, ‘Oh, yeah; everything’s fine.' "
Luckily, Johnson wasn't hurt. “Anne was mortified and so apologetic, but he milked it,” Segal said. “He painted little bruises on his forehead and came up to her later and pretended that he was wounded.”
Hathaway also connected with costar Steve Carell. But in a much different sort of way.
"Anne is such a sick, crazy Office fan,” Segal said. “I swear to God, she knows every line from every episode. She insisted on auditioning even though we said, ‘No, it’s not really necessary.’ But then at the moment she sat down next to Steve, he started ad-libbing a little bit and then she started ad-libbing to catch up with him, and before long, I found myself feverishly writing notes of what they were saying. Later on after we hired her and we were shooting the movie, we shot a lot of those ad-libs.” (Segal promises the audition tape will be part of the eventual DVD release.)
Now about Maxwell Smart’s famous shoe phone. “At the time, the shoe phone was the coolest thing in the world,” Segal says of the original 1960s television series created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. “We didn’t have cordless phones, let alone cell phones. So now the thought of somebody actually putting a shoe to their face is kind of disgusting. But we did talk to Apple about possibly making a screen saver for iPhones. It would look like the bottom of a shoe.”
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