America Tunes In To Smell What The Barack Is Cooking
Seth Abramovitch · 10/08/08 12:46PM· Pundits are saying the second presidential debate turned a corner for the Obama campaign, as he was much more successful in interacting with the cadavers propped up in chairs at the Town Hall Meeting of the Dead. [Variety] · Billy Kemp has been named the new VP of casting and talent at FremantleMedia North America, where he'll continue to comb the planet for new American Idol judges to threaten Paula Abdul. [Variety] · Forest Whitaker will play Louis Armstrong in What a Wonderful World, a biopic from the same French studio that produced La Vie en Rose. [Variety] After the jump: Yet more George Romero madness! Which of his cult classics is getting a remake?· A remake is on the way for George Romero's 1973 movie The Crazies, a small Kansas town who go insane after being infected by the local water supply. As if Kansans weren't already crazy enough! Hahahaha! [Variety] · The studios are so threatened by Alan Rosenberg's pledge to coat every single SAG member in kerosene and light them ablaze sooner than allow them to step foot on set that they've decided to move ahead with their 2010 slates anyway. We don't know about you, but we could just sit back and watch this forever. Labor unrest just never gets old! [Variety]