'BIG TROUBLE' TOO SOON?Byline: - Bob Strauss ``Big Trouble,'' the ensemble comedy starring Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Tom Sizemore and Jason Lee, was originally scheduled to come out last September. Then ... ``I was in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. working on 'Men in Black II' when Sept. 11 happened,'' says Barry Sonnenfeld, the New Yorker yorker Noun Cricket a ball bowled so as to pitch just under or just beyond the bat [probably after the Yorkshire County Cricket Club] who directed both ``MiB'' and such crime comedies as ``Get Shorty'' and ``Trouble.'' ``All the studios closed their lots for the day, so I went immediately to Ivy at the Shore and had three vodka gimlets for lunch. Then I got a call from a Disney higher-up. He said, 'Look, your movie comes out in 10 days, there won't be any commercials on the air for the next week and we have several scenes where these guys sneak an atomic bomb atomic bomb or A-bomb, weapon deriving its explosive force from the release of atomic energy through the fission (splitting) of heavy nuclei (see nuclear energy). The first atomic bomb was produced at the Los Alamos, N.Mex. through airport security and hijack a plane. We'd better push back the release date.'' Sonnenfeld agreed. But will the new April 5 release date still be too soon after the tragedy? ``I hope it still can exist unto itself, as the light entertainment it was intended to be, which can really be hard for a movie to do,'' the director acknowledges. Based on a Dave Barry For the English musician, see . David Barry, Jr. (born July 3, 1947) is a bestselling American author and Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist who wrote a nationally syndicated column for the The Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. book, ``Big Trouble'' charts the misadventures of a disparate bunch of Floridians who all somehow come in contact with the smuggled smug·gle v. smug·gled, smug·gling, smug·gles v.tr. 1. To import or export without paying lawful customs charges or duties. 2. To bring in or take out illicitly or by stealth. bomb. ``Not unlike 'Get Shorty short·y also short·ie Informal n. pl. short·ies 1. A person short in stature. 2. A thing of less than average size, length, extension, or duration. adj. ,' you take really smart actors, put them in really weird situations and then make sure they play it as reality,'' Sonnenfeld says of the movie's deadpan tone. ``As weird and wacky as 'Big Trouble' is, I always asked the actors, 'Don't acknowledge that anything is funny and always talk really fast, and we'll get away with it somehow.''' As for the summer's sequel to the blockbuster Will Smith/Tommy Lee Jones sci-fi comedy, Sonnenfeld can only reveal so much. ``Tommy gets his memory back,'' he says. ``He and Will are really funny. It's gonna be short, like the first one. Some new aliens and old aliens. There's a new, duty-free area in ``Men in Black'' headquarters. And that one will be out July 3, unless something horrible happens involving aliens from outer space doing something - in which case, then it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for me to stop making movies.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: ``BIG TROUBLE'' |
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