Re: OT: Pam Grier/ South Park/ Bareback Mountain

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:47:09 GMT, Aisling Willow Grey
<aisling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>>On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:49:33 -0500, Nancy l. Dylong wrote
>(in article <11qf6qfm7hpa569@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>
>> The thread was too long to jump in on, so I wanted to add this to the mix;
>>
>> South Park's great ideas:
>> From EW:
>> Ricky Blitt, the scribe behind the subversively silly new Johnny Knoxville
>> comedy The Ringer, says he was shocked when he recently came across a post
>> bashing him on the Rotten Tomatoes website. The post, from an irate South
>> Park fan, urged the animated show's creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, to
>> sue the makers of The Ringer (including producers Peter and Bobby Farrelly)
>> for ripping off an episode of the Comedy Central show in which Eric Cartman
>> pretends to be mentally challenged in order to qualify for the Special
>> Olympics - a premise that mirrors the concept of the Fox Searchlight film,
>> due to hit theaters Dec. 23. <<
>
>The story is slightly backwards. It's the Farrelly brothers who are making
>all the noise. They'd apparently been working on this story idea for a film
>for some time, blissfully unaware of the South Park episode in question, and
>now that they're in preproduction and it's been brought to their attention,
>they've been making accusations all over town that Parker and Stone had been
>approached with their "Ringer" script, which is patently untrue according to
>Parker and Stone.

Knoxville will never be able to do it as well as Cartman. I love
that little guy!

AG, listening to the south park xmas cd right now
.

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