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David Cross Explains The Soul-Searching That Accompanied Cashing His 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' Paycheck

Though no stranger to the inevitable backlash a comedian with indie cred will suffer by cashing the occasional easy paycheck to participate in a family film with no greater artistic aim than briefly quieting a theater full of overmedicated six-year-olds, onetime Dr. Doolittle 2 and Curious George cameo-maker David Cross was nevertheless unprepared for the intensity with which overflowing handfuls of critical excrement hit his personal fan for deciding to join the cast of current box office juggernaut Alvin and Chipmunks. Inspired by a "snide comment" recently directed his way by Ratatouille's Patton Oswalt, who had previously turned down the same Chipmunks part but had the good fortune of being offered a voiceover role in an Oscar-quality CGI-critter film, Cross takes to his website to explain the series of Mitigating Factors that went into that particular career choice:

Hello, David here. I've internally debated the merits of addressing my appearance in, (and thus tacit condoning of) "Alvin and The Chipmunks". I am not stupid nor unobservant. I knew going into this movie that I would be eating a lot of delicious shit for it.
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3:45 PM on Wed Jan 2 2008
By Mark
9,520 views, 29 comments

Latest by Cultmember: Cross's next project is "Coupon: the Movie" more »

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Short Ends: Cross Vs. Belushi: Perhaps Even Better Than Roos Vs. Clowns


· By now you may have already seen this video of David Cross showing his appreciation of Jim Belushi's "music" by hopping on stage during one of his "concerts." If so, watch it again. It really rewards a second viewing. If this is the first time, cherish this special moment. [via GoldenFiddle]
· OK, George Michael, you're on notice: Pass out in your car with some drugs just one more time and we're going to start saying you might have a problem.
Page-pampering Florida Congressman Mark Foley (no, not the Focus Features guy, how many times do we have to correct you on that?) checked into rehab today, possibly in Clearwater, which set off Wonkette's Scientology alarms. We're just going to assume that his possible ties to the Church are merely related to pandering to a large South Floridian constituency, and that he's not currently trying to sweat out his pedophilia in a Hubbardian sauna.
As Copyranter points out in regards to an ad featuring an image of ET's Mary Hart, there's a fine line between photo "retouching" and the "the wholesale erasure of twenty years of aging."
After removing the twenty-pound false stomach she wore for all nine (or was it ten?) months of her fake pregnancy, Katie Holmes now seems skinnier. A real headscratcher, that.

6:44 PM on Mon Oct 2 2006
By Mark
113 views, 7 comments

Latest by JackieTreehorn: My hope now is that someone will do an similar appreciation of Jim Belushi's "acting" on his television "show," "According to Jim." I think they make Gitmo prisoners watch episodes of that and "King of Queens." That is, until McCain more »

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Trade Round-Up: David Cross Does Freak Show

· David Cross will executive produce seven episodes of the animated Freak Show for Comedy Central. Though we have no idea whether or not this has any impact on those Arrested Development rumors, feel free to interpret in any fashion that makes you feel good. [Variety]
More pilot news than you can shake a midseason order at: Julia Ormond in CBS drama The Way, Bradley Whitford, Sarah Paulson and Timothy Busfield in NBC's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, William Baldwin and Joe Pantoliano in CBS drama Waterfront, and CW picks up a second drama, the high school Sliding Doors-esque series Split Decision. [THR]
· Digital platforms are providing promising revenue streams for media companies, who are more than happy to find new and exciting ways to screw writers, directors, and actors out of residuals. [Variety]
Warner Bros. picks up the prison drama Kite for Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way, which may serve as a starring vehicle for the actor should he decide to play the prettiest fish in the whole penal system. [THR]
"Dear Investors, Viacom is very, very close to finally selling the DreamWorks library for a very, very large sum of money! No, for real this time! Love, Tom Freston." [Variety]

11:48 AM on Tue Feb 28 2006
By Mark
178 views, 2 comments

Latest by Ron Mwangaguhunga: That Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is sounding smoking hott. more »

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Short Ends: It's Thanksgiving! Be Nice.


Because cooking up a batch of delicious yams to show our gratitude to all of you would be both time and cost prohibitive, we hope you'll all instead accept our love in the form of this special edition Eva Longoria Thanksgiving e-card. We'll be back on Friday, but in the meantime, enjoy a smattering of links: More »

4:45 PM on Wed Nov 23 2005
By Mark
362 views, Comment

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Short Ends: Paris Goes Incognito

· Is Snoop kidnapping Pee Wee football players? We hear drug testing in his league is pretty lax.
· The LA Weekly's Nikki Finke sounds the death knell for movie advertising in the "newsosaurs," claiming that studios think the audiences of the LA Times, NY Times, and their ink-on-paper ilk aren't worth the huge ads that clog their entertainment sections. We hope this frees up promotional budgets for more skywriting. We love skywriting.
· Please, whatever you do, don't look here if you ever, ever want to experience sexual desire again.
· Find out what role KFC played in the loss of John Leguizamo's virginity, or learn about David Cross's fond memories of Times Square.
· Paris Hilton has started wearing a disguise to slow mobs of fans. Just try and think of a punchline that doesn't involve a pair of Groucho glasses and her vagina, we dare you.

5:00 PM on Thu Aug 18 2005
By Mark
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Short Ends: A Flash Of Sidekick Genius


· Liquid Generation fills up Paris Hilton's Sidekick better than she could ever hope to. Peruse Hilton's address book, watch her bi-curious phonecam videos, and IM her celeb buddy list. If only this kind of ingenuity could be put to some more noble purpose, like inventing a Flash game that erases all memory of Fred Durst screwing.
· The prophetic Fred Durst, blogging back in November: "well people, hackers, gotta love them and gotta despise them. it's the territory where we are all put in a position to be victims. kind of fun and dangerous at the same time. so don't be so gullible." Gullible, like believing that the clear, huge sex video was somehow stored in a Sidekick, which, incidentally, has no video camera?
· David Cross is keeping busy while Arrested Development dangles by the thinnest of threads. [via goldenfiddle]
· CZJ's stalker: the "no contest" kind of crazy.

3:53 PM on Fri Feb 25 2005
By Mark
121 views