\n\”Woody Allen and I used to play a little game,\” says Martin Landau, who portrays the owner of an aged movie house in Frank Darabont\’s new film, \”The Majestic.\”\n\n\”I\’d say \’The Elm,\’ and he\’d say, \’The Midwood.\’ I\’d say \’The Kenmore\’ and he\’d say, \’The Avalon.\’\”
Michael Bender and Mia Kirschner admit there\’s no Jewish archetype in Joel Gallen\’s \”Not Another Teen Movie\” — a \”nasty and frequently hilarious assault on 20 years\’ worth of youth pictures,\” according to The New York Times. \”The \’Jewish kid\’ isn\’t really a character that\’s consistently come up in teen movies,\” says Bender, one of the writers and co-producers of the comedy which does to teen movies what \”Scary Movie\” did to the horror genre. Maybe that\’s why the football team in the film\’s fictional John Hughes High is called the Wasps, suggests Kirschner, who plays the school\’s \”Cruelest Girl\” (a spoof of the film, \”Cruel Intentions\”).
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