Random Jennifer Coolidge Fantasy

Just the other day -- honestly I was just minding my own business, looking at Guild award photos -- the thought suddenly popped into me weary brain: wouldn't it be awesome if Jennifer Coolidge played Paula Wagner in a biopic?

Jennifer Coolidge IS Paula Wagner in "Wagner: The True Story"

With that casting dilemma solved I guess someone now needs to write a Paula Wagner biopic and then you have to figure out who to cast as Tom Cruise since her huge producing career was so closely tied to pushing his movies out into the world.

But who could ever play Tom Cruise?  I'm sure he'd demand the role for himself.

[related reading: Take Three Jennifer Coolidge]

"I'm an excellent driver"

Yes, readers, the blog goes right here. Everything's now in one place. (Well, everything except co-productions which alternate location like Best Pictures From the Outside In and such.)

Fake Jew, Real ScientologistNick, Mike and I are proud to bring back "Best Pictures From the Outside In" series for its 20th episode (the halfway mark). The films are Gentleman's Agreement in which Gregory Peck poses as a Jewish man to write a scathing expose on anti-Semitism and Tom Cruise plays a cocky jerk who suddenly finds he is with family (no, not in that way) in Rain Man.

If you're new to the series and need a refresher, here is the index to all 20 episodes. Nick, being the overachiever that he is, also keeps a tournament list a readers poll and ranks all the winners.

Please join in the conversation of that episode at Goatdog's blog. There's so much to discuss. Do you love the 80s time capsule of Rain Man. Do you like being lectured to by Gregory Peck? Mike sums both films up in an animated 2 minute recap, I share my theory on how Tom Cruise inspired Twitter (no really) and Nick overshares his Scientology (not really).

P.S. I think you should know that Bull Durham was totally robbed of an Oscar nomination in 1988 and Black Narcissus (which we recently wrote about) was robbed in 1947. What were they thinking?