OEDEKERK PUZZLED BY HOLLYWOOD.Byline: Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith Off-the-wall supertalent Steve Oedekerk  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. , who's now "Who's Now" was a daily series aired during SportsCenter throughout July 2007, in which viewers helped ESPN determine the ultimate sports star by considering both on-field success and off-field buzz. pinning down deal points to make his ``The Dubbed Action Movie'' spoof See spoofing. spoof - spoofing , on which he'll serve as writer, producer, director and star, is looking forward to being in control of his output. ``My big Hollywood life has been comical,'' says Oedekerk, who's written such films as ``The Nutty Professor,'' ``Patch Adams'' and Jim Carrey's ``Ace Ventura'' flicks (which he also directed). ``When I was getting paid nothing, I was popping out hit movie after hit movie,'' he notes. ``Then, the second everyone wanted to start paying me a ton of money, the movies started going in slow motion.'' For instance ... Oedekerk's big-budget sci-fi western, ``Cowboys and Aliens,'' is on hold - indefinitely. Oedekerk reveals he was ``lured'' away from the project to do ``The Incredible Mr. Limpet'' with Carrey. However, that feature is also stalled, to say the least. When Carrey's crammed schedule pushed ``Mr. Limpet'' back a year, Oedekerk decided he'd given enough time to the project and moved on to other activities, including the kooky TV cult hit ``Thumb Wars,'' a ``Star Wars'' spoof starring thumbs. ``The bigger films were just lumbering forward because they had such huge budgets,'' comments Oedekerk. ``You can't complain to anyone because you're getting paid all this money, but it's like, nothing happens. You start to ask, `How can businesses run like this where they just pay people a lot of money to not make movies?' '' With the Fox Animation Studios' ``The Dubbed Action Movie'' he now has in his sights, ``I'm inserting myself into a 1950s Asian martial-arts film.'' Hot stuff Donald Sutherland and Armand Assante Armand Anthony Assante Jr. (born October 4, 1949, New York City, New York) is an Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American actor. Biography Assante was born in New York City to an Irish mother and an Italian father. , who co-star co·star also co-star n. A starring actor or actress given equal status with another or others in a play or film. tr. & intr.v. co·starred, co·star·ring, co·stars To act or present as a costar. in TNT's July 11 ``The Hunley,'' found production of the drama about the first submersible submersible, small, mobile undersea research vessel capable of functioning in the ocean depths. Development of a great variety of submersibles during the later 1950s and 1960s came about as a result of improved technology and in response to a demonstrated need for vessel ``grueling, absolutely grueling,'' says Assante. As he recalls it, ``working in a mock-up mock·up also mock-up n. 1. A usually full-sized scale model of a structure, used for demonstration, study, or testing. 2. A layout of printed matter. of the submarine in intense heat was just terrible. It got to everyone after awhile - two crew members passed out the first week.'' The troupe worked 12- to 14-hour days during a production schedule of about seven weeks. ``When you're doing television, you always yearn for more time,'' he notes. ``But in this case, well, it was nice to leave the heat of the South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. location behind.'' With reports by Stephanie DuBois. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1) OEDEKERK (2) CARREY |
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