Jamie McCarthy/WireImage.comIt's only natural that people tend to get a little dramatic at film festivals. The atmosphere is nuts. I mean, the Wall Street Journal is sponsoring a gift lounge. WTF, right? I'm sure Kim Kardashian is snagging free pocket protectors as I type.
So, anyway...Our drama-prone spy who saw Amy Redford's cancer/shopping drama The Guitar said, "If her dad weren't Robert Redford, she'd be sleeping in a bed of New Yorker rejection notes." Ouch.
The plot does sound a bit wanky: Hot chick (Saffron Burrows) gets cancer and sleeps around is a dull setup, like a rejected plot twist from Sex and the City. Still, I doubt Guitar is as bad as Good Dick, the Tom Arnold romance that's getting panned left and right. So, yeah, no luck for the ladies just yet. But don't worry. I'm just sure Paris Hilton's The Hottie and the Nottie will help put girls back on top. Pun intended.
On a more positive note, Jonathan Levine's pot comedy The Wackness is, according to that same spy, "nothing less than perfectly perfect perfection." Yeah, you go to a festival, get smashed all day and speak only in superlatives. It happens.
Alas, we can all be happy that Wackness player Olivia Thirlby (Juno's BFF in Juno) is getting lots of notice (and, no doubt, free stuff). I thought Olivia gave the second-best performance in Juno (first being a tie between Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman). Anyhow, go, Olivia. Wackness will get bought for lots of dough, probably even before I get to the end of this post.
Finally, on an even more positive yet mind-numbingly boring note, the Weinstein Co. picked up international rights for the documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired. Oh, come on, Harvey. You couldn't have bought all the rights, you know, just to be dramatic and extreme? Dude, you're clearly not guzzling enough champagne.
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