Aztec Rex
On sets long struck, Australian director Brian (ESCAPE 2000) Trenchard-Smith might have set himself on fire to prove a point, or even allowed his star to seriously beat him up?like Jimmy Wang Yu did on MAN FROM HONG KONG. Much more recently, Fango spoke to the slightly more laidback but still enthusiastic filmmaker about his upcoming Sci Fi Channel dinosaur/conquistador opus AZTEC REX.1
As such, when a story breaks, she’s able to give the straight dope on it. Yesterday she reported that Lindsay Lohan had been dropped from the upcoming movie The Manson Girls for a variety of reasons, the biggest of which is that no one wants to work with her nowadays.2
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Seems like basic cable has suddenly become obsessed with Alaska. In the wake of Discovery Channel’s Alaska Week–replete with shows like “The Alaska Experiment”–comes History Channel’s “Tougher in Alaska.” It’s a region-specific takeoff of Discovery’s “Dirty Jobs.” Each week, host Geo Beach (who really ought to hook up with Bear Grylls) works another brutal job in America’s Last Frontier.4
In 1937, Cooper conceived a spectacular scenario for a film called War Eagles, intending to top his work on King Kong. A script was written and work began on the film.5