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Time for another quick batch of goodies.<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/a> I haven\u2019t a clue what the political situation is like in California right now, but apparently a number of people are really, really hoping that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger takes time out from politics to make a movie or two. Moviehole<\/a> reports that he is not only being courted for Terminator 4<\/a><\/i> and Conan 3<\/i>, but that screenwriter William Goldman has dusted off the screenplay he once wrote for Crusade<\/a><\/i>, a film that was going to star Arnold and be directed by Paul Verhoeven in the mid-1990s. What, so soon after the disappointment that was Kingdom of Heaven<\/a><\/i>? (I can\u2019t quite call it a \u201cflop\u201d, because while it may have been only #62 at the North American<\/a> box office last year, it was #18 worldwide<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

2.<\/a> Reuters<\/a> reports that Samuel L. Jackson will narrate Bob Saget\u2019s R-rated Farce of the Penguins<\/a><\/i>, essentially parodying Morgan Freeman\u2019s narration of March of the Penguins<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

3.<\/a> IndieWIRE<\/a> reports that ThinkFilm has acquired the rights to FUCK<\/a><\/i>, a documentary about the famous four-letter word that features interviews with everyone from Pat Boone and Michael Medved<\/a> to Ron Jeremy and Hunter S. Thompson; the film also looks at how characters as diverse as Bono and Lenny Bruce have generated controversy through their utterance of that word.<\/p>\n

Just for the record, I have always had a fascination with profanity and the semi-arbitrary way society says some words are okay while other words are not; and there once was a time when I snapped up reference books and serious works of scholarship like Hugh Rawson\u2019s Wicked Words<\/a><\/i>, Jesse Sheidlower\u2019s The F Word<\/a><\/i> and Geoffrey Hughes\u2019s Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English<\/a><\/i> just for a little light reading. (Click here<\/a> for some thoughts I typed up a few years ago on the use of profanity in film.) So I am definitely interested in this movie, though I don\u2019t necessarily expect it to be all that good.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"