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Celebrated Director Set to Helm Daring Movie Criticizing Social Injustices Everybody Already Hates

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

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HOLLYWOOD, CA-- A good-looking minority sits in a nice, up-scale restaurant. He chats warmly with an attractive white female who is sat across the table from him. The waiter approaches them, and suddenly, the man chatting happily just moments before, is shocked at a grave, despicable social injustice. "How dare you?" asks the man. The waiter can barely stammer that he needs the minority to leave because he's making a scene, when the minority courageously retorts, "Oh, I'll leave alright. And I'll go right past that door, and I'll keep walking-- all the way to equality!"

But just this once, this is not a real-life human drama unfolding. It is instead actors on a set, the main character in the scene played by The Minority That is One of Three Highly Paid Minorities in Hollywood, in the bold, ground-breaking upcoming movie by Famous Oscar-Winning Director, title to be determined (although the project is referred to on the shooting script and around the set as "Preaching to the Choir"). For the first time in movie history, social injustices that are universally considered vile and have been crusaded against by hundreds of civil rights leader and made illegal by Congress for businesses to conduct several decades ago, will be put under harsh scrutiny by a famous director in movie form.

"I'd just finished doing my last giant blockbuster that made hundreds of millions," says Famous Oscar-Winning Director, "and I really had no idea what I wanted to do next. All the scripts that came my way didn't do anything for me. And one day I was out with my family, and we were shopping, and we saw a social injustice happen to a minority. And I thought, there, that's my movie. I went up to the minority later and asked him if he was okay, and he said 'Fuck those bastards. I'm calling up the corporate office and getting all the motherfuckers involved fired.' And you know, the next time I went, sure enough, they weren't there. Probably because most companies nowadays have a 'zero tolerance' attitude about that kind of thing, seeing as how society as a whole finds it disgusting." Director later elaborated, "This sort of thing has never happened to me personally, but both my parents were half minority, so this picture means a lot to me."

Producer With Jewish-Sounding Surname elaborated on how difficult it was to get this daring, one-of-a-kind film made. "When Famous Oscar-Winning Director approached me about the project, I was hesitant. This was totally uncharted waters, and I wasn't sure how commercially viable it was. Then I remembered that the movie is a criticism on social injustices pretty much everyone hates, and I realized, though the Academy has never had a movie charged with social injustices, because everyone hates them, the movie could win 10 hojillion Oscars, and therefore would make money at the box office from the Oscar buzz alone." When reminded that "hojillion" was not a number, Producer corrected himself, saying "Okay, a lot of Oscars. All of them."

Although confidence and enthusiasm on the set of the to-be-later-renamed "Preaching to the Choir" is palpable, it remains to be seen just how audiences will react to a movie that puts illegal and immoral social injustices that no one in their right mind could support in a negative light. An early version of the script has been leaked, and one insider we spoke to said it was "preachy and predictable", but said that he loved it, adding "It's about time Hollywood spoke out about and is giving attention to these issues everybody already knows about. Hopefully more movie-makers will step out about these well-known and well-hated issues, and more movies like this will be made."
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yesterday last year THE KILLS! SPIDER-MAN 2! MYSPACE! BRITNEY SPEARS! on last year's POLARITY!

on this day last year review of sleater-kinney's the woods, which was, in case you didn't know, my favorite album last year.
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with love from CRS @ 11:03 PM 

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