DISQUS

Billy Bristol · 1 year ago

Q: When was the last time a biopic about a journalist featured the main character in a bad light?

A: In 2003's Shattered Glass, in which Hayden Christensen (a.k.a. box office poison) portrayed real-life reporter Stephen Glass, who either partially or completely fabricated 27 or his 41 stories published in The New Republic.

Basically, he plays an intelligent although overly self-conscious, emotionally anemic, whinny douchebag, which of course is a complete departure from any of his other roles (ahem, Star Wars Episode II, Jumper, and on and on...)

P.S. - Be sure to pick up plenty of Peter Sarsgaard SARS Gaurds. Bonus points to anyone who picks up on that reference.

Billy Bristol · 1 year ago

Q: When was the last time a biopic about a journalist featured the main character in a bad light?

A: Shattered Glass in 2003, in which Hayden Christensen (a.k.a. box office poison) portrayed real-life reporter Stephen Glass, who either partially or completely fabricated 27 or his 41 stories published in The New Republic.

Basically, he plays an intelligent although overly self-conscious, emotionally anemic, whinny d*uchebag, which of course is a complete departure from any of his other roles ( ahem, Star Wars Episode II, Jumper, and on and on...)

P.S. - Be sure to pick up plenty of Peter Sarsgaard SARS Gaurds. Bonus points to anyone who picks up on that reference.

Billy Bristol · 1 year ago

Q: When was the last time a biopic about a journalist featured the main character in a bad light?

A: Shattered Glass in 2003, in which Hayden Christensen (a.k.a. box office poison) portrayed real-life reporter Stephen Glass, who either partially or completely fabricated 27 or his 41 stories published in The New Republic.

Basically, he plays an intelligent although overly self-conscious, emotionally anemic, whinny tool, which of course is a complete departure from any of his other roles ( ahem, Star Wars Episode II, Jumper, and on and on...)

P.S. - Be sure to pick up plenty of Peter Sarsgaard SARS Gaurds. Bonus points to anyone who picks up on that reference.

Cole Abaius · 1 year ago

Third time's a charm.

Billy Bristol · 1 year ago

@ Cole

Yeah, apparently. With me being a long-time reader, but first time poster, I was oblivious the amount of turnaround time for comment to appear below the story. Blame modern conveniences (fast food, TiVo, internet pornography, etc.) on my proclivity for instant gratification.

Plus, I thought the website might have been content filtering, seeing that the original two contained the "douchebag," which could be considered hate speech (unless in reference to three glaring exceptions: Hayden Christensen, Uwe Boll and David Caruso). All that being said, I'd like to take my one technological mulligan.

P.S. - In regards to one of your stories, I will also lament the conclusion of the brilliantly coordinated and seamlessly executed Dark Knight viral marketing campaign. I