7pm Saturday, Feb. 2nd @
Razzie HQ
PREVUE NITE 2002 Set to
GLITTER
with God-Awful
FREDDY PEARL
Mariah, and Other Screen
Pariahs
See Careys Laughably Lip-Sunk
Screen Debut
Along with Lotsa Snips, Clips and
Critical Rips
When it
opened to Almost No Business on September 21, 2001, we thought:
Well, it IS the first movie to come out after Sept.
11. When it won the NBC/TODAY SHOW poll as 2001's Biggest
Showbiz Blunder (With 50% of the vote!) we thought: No way
79,500 people even saw it! When it rang up 56 out of 59
reviews as slams on Our 2nd Favorite Web-Site ROTTEN TOMATOES, we
were impressed. When it peeked at #66 on the IMDBs All Time
100 Worst List, we were intrigued. Then we saw it. Now were
offering it as The Main Feature at this years RAZZIE
Preview Nite...
It is, of
course, Madonna-Played-at-Alvin-and-The-Chipmunks-Speed
Pop Singer Mariah Carey in Her First Feature Film,
GLITTER. Its Listed ALL OVER the enclosed Nominating
Ballot, in part because it earned such Critical ACK-o-lades as
the dorkiest movie of the year! (Internet Site I-FILM);
a dim bulb of a movie (USA Today); and
Were talking a lock on the RAZZIES here! (Greenwich
Village Gazette). In its defense, we admit GLITTER is
Shorter than PEARL HARBOR (By About a Week!) Less Decrepit than
TOWN & COUNTRY (Though Every Bit as Old Hat!) Less Offensive
than FREDDY GOT FINGERED (Though Just About as Dumb!) and has
More Frequent Laughs than DRIVEN (Though Both are
Star-Ego-Driven!). But GLITTER is Ripe for Ripping-Apart by the
RAZZIE Members Who Show Up at Prevue Nite: Wall-to-wall with
Hokey Movie Cliches and Begging-to-Be-Retorted Set-Up Lines
(Have you thought seriously about acting?) it was
whomped-on by Entertainment Weakly as a smelly STAR
IS BORN campfest and got their A Rating as
a cult comedy. Sounds ,
doesnt it!?!
And we
wont be ignoring The Other 57 Contenders. In addition to
Kitty GLITTER, well also show Embarrassing Moments, Vicious
Reviews and World Class Bad Acting from such 2001 Turkeys as:
DRIVEN (Written by Stallone and featuring Worst
Supporting Actor and Worst Screen Couple hopefuls Sylvester
and Burt Reynolds); 2001s Most Butt-Numbing
Three-Way/Three Hour WWII Romance PEARL HARBOR (With
a Surprise Ending Any 3 Year-Old Could Predict); Repeat Offenders
Kevin Costner and Kurt Russell as Casino-Robbing
Elvis Impersonators in 3000 MILES TO GRACELAND (with Worst
Supporting Actress Shoo-In Courtney Cox as The Woman
Who Somehow Out-Foxes Them); Idiot NON-Savant Tom Green in
FREDDY GOT FINGERED (So Many Moments to Choose: The Bloody Deer
Carcass? The 18" Horse Penis?? The Elephant Ejaculating on Rip
Torn???); Plus MONKEYBONE, PLANET OF THE APES and MORE...Some
Even WORSE! Of course, well also be offering
Dinner and Door Prizes!
To Attend Prevue
Nite Please RSVP to
HeadBerry@razzies.com
And We'll See
You (and All The RAZZIE GLITTER-atti) February 2nd!!
The WORST Kind of GOSSIP!
THATLL
PUT HIM AHEAD of MADONNA and KEVIN BY ABOUT TWO-TO-ONE.. If
all three Sylvester Stallone films now slated for release
in 2002 actually ARE released, Duh Sly Guys Career
Total for RAZZIE Nomination could reach a staggering 30. Among
the titles: EYE SEE YOU (which has been In The Can for many
months now) co-starring Fellow Former RAZZIE Nominees Kris
Kristofferson (HEAVENS GATE) and Tom Berenger
(SLIVER) in a tale of murder at a Police Rehab center.
DOLANS CADILLAC is based on a Stephen King story and
co-stars Kevin Bacon. And AVENGING ANGELO finds Our
Poster Dude as a Mafia bodyguard out to solve (and avenge?)
The Death of a Don, played by The Late Anthony Quinn. If
Ol Tony gives as a good a performance in this as he did in
GHOSTS CANT DO IT a decade ago, he could score his second
(and first posthumous!) Worst Supporting Actor nod...
MAYBE
THEY SHOULD RE-TITLE IT BATTLEFIELD GARTH?? We
were just wondering What Ever Happened to the Highly-Touted
Screen Debut of Country Singer Garth Brooks in the guise
of Punk Rocker Chris Gaines. THE LAMB was originally announced
nearly FOUR YEARS ago, and was to be launched by a TV Special
(which aired in 1999) and a Pre-Release Soundtrack Album of
Punk Rock Songs by Brooks (that either disappeared or
was never released). Its STILL listed as being In
Pre-Production...
AND YOU
THOUGHT 2001 SUCKED!! Looking ahead to Possible Contenders
for The 23rd Annual RAZZIES, among the Lip-Smackingly
Lousy-Sounding Films set for 2002 release are: 3 time RAZZIE
Nominee Catherine Zeta-Jones dancing(!) and singing(!) in
the Long-Delayed Screen Version of Kander-and-Ebbs CHICAGO
(Wheres Marni Nixon when you really need her?); MEN
IN BLACK 2, re-uniting the RAZZIE Winning Star (Will
Smith) and Director (Barry Sonenfeld) of 1999's WILD
WILD WASTE; A Live-Action Remake of SCOOBY-DOO (Remember THE
ADVENTURES of ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE??); Bubble-Headed Bubblegum
Rock Star Britney Spears following in Madonna and Mariah
Careys footsteps with her screen debut CROSSROADS; STAR
WARS: EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES (which had BETTER kill off
1999 Worst Supporting Actor Jar-Jar Binks in the
fist five minutes!) -- Judging by the Purple Dialogue in its
Current Trailer, looks to be a Definite Worst Screenplay
Contender; and Paul Schrader (HARDCORE) directing Greg
Kinnear as the late HOGANS HEROES star and Kinky Bad
Boy Bob Crane in AUTO FOCUS (which could do for Motel
Lamps what MOMMIE DEAREST did for Wire Hangers).
And
You Thought The WORST Was Behind Us!!
22nd Annual RAZZIE Nominations
Announced Monday, February 11
22nd Annual RAZZIE
Winners
Announced Saturday, March 23