Robert Rodriguez

MEL GIBSON AND CHARLIE SHEEN ARE TEAMING UP AGAIN

Lifetime’s stunt casting of Lindsay Lohan in Liz & Dick – most likely purely for publicity purposes – seems to be catching on in Hollywood. Director Robert Rodriguez has an impressive cast assembled for his Machete Kills movie – including Sofia Vergara, Amber Heard (Johnny Depp’s rumored fling) Jessica Alba, and Michelle Rodriguez. He also hired MEL GIBSON to play an eccentric billionaire arms dealer and CHARLIE SHEEN to play the President of the Untied States! Both Mel and Charlie rank up there with Lindsay in the “notoriety for negative reasons” department. Ironically, Mel tried to help Charlie during his famed “meltdown.” Will the novelty of these two fill theater seats? We doubt it. Viewers are WAY less likely to fork over $18 for movie tickets to see a train wreck, than they are to sit home and watch it on TV for free.

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ATTENTION SPY KIDS 4: JOHN WATERS INTRODUCED ODORAMA IN 1981

Director Robert Rodriguez is making a big deal out of the fact that his movie “Spy Kids 4” with Jessica Alba, is featuring what he calls Aromascope. Each moviegoer is handed a card with a numbered set of smells. At certain points in the plot they’re instructed to scratch and sniff an appropriate odor. Kids will probably be charmed by this attraction. What Rodriguez keeps forgetting to mention is the fact that John Waters pioneered this technique in 1981 in ”Polyester,” which featured scratch n’ sniff Odorama. Polyester starred Divine and Tab Hunter – all this on a $300,000 budget! Those old Odorama cards have become highly collectible, by the way. Let’s give credit where credit is due! (FYI- back in the 70’s, Divine was between movies and applied for a job as cashier in our clothing shop on Sunset Strip. We were afraid he’d scare away the customers and turned him down. In retrospect, we should have given him a chance.)

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