A Million Little Pieces To Finally Be Adapted - As 70 Minute Blank Turquoise Screen

Believe it or not, that's not an Onion headline:

See, Nigel Tomm is an artist who likes to adapt literary properties in his own unique way -- by calling each a "remix" and adding one solid color that remains on screen for roughly 70 minutes or so. No sound, no dialogue, no narration, nothing. Previously, Tomm's done the same thing for Hamlet, The Catcher in the Rye and Waiting for Godot, among others. Here's a bit more description: "Nigel Tomm's film adaptation of James Frey's book "A Million Little Pieces" is the transfer of the story to the space of art. Somebody calls it absolute art. Somebody calls it abstract film. Somebody calls it fraud. To have your own opinion you must trust your eyes and experience for yourself the seductive turquoise screen."

And you can buy a piece of A Million Little Pieces for only $19.97 on Amazon.

To be fair, some would argue that a no dialogue adaptation of Waiting for Godot would actually be an improvement. That's something The Onion would cover.

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Paul Rudd hates mustard

Who hates mustard? Honestly:

MTV: Last time we spoke, you admitted to a lifelong fear of condiments. I don't want to get you upset ...

[A tray of ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise is brought out.]

Rudd: Oh my God. You've done this? I feel like I'm on "Howard Stern." I can't even look at it. [He looks at the tray.] This mustard is so disgusting. It looks like guacamole. And that is either mayonnaise or frosting. This smells like a bad picnic.

MTV: So I take it you're not any better with this stuff than you were?

Rudd: I hate all of that. I had a friend who had the same kind of reaction to condiments, but the idea of ketchup and mustard mixed together was so awful to him that we'd sit around and describe it and we'd make him throw up. [He laughs.] I get it

Though while this interview threw the kitchen sink at Rudd, I'm surprised no one combined the Ghostbusters and McLovin' references to come up with a joke about what's in the Ghostbusters Lunchbox.

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Play-to-movie adaptation update

I guess it takes a Pulitzer Prize or a Best Play Tony to get a play made into a movie these days. First, there's the news that August: Osage County will be made into a movie. No doubt several top notch actors will be dying to get a part. Then we get this brilliant poster design for the Doubt movie. The film has Oscars written all over it, and I'll be damned if it doesn't inspire some serious interest in straight plays on Broadway. Will a trickle down effect occur?

All in all, it's looking like an exciting time for the legit side of the Great White Way.

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