list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Varsity Blues on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Varsity_Blues/129420/default.aspx Title: Varsity Blues
Year: 1999
Director: Brian Robbins
Plot: In his first feature following the success of television's Dawson's Creek, James Van Der Beek stars as Jonathan Moxon, the back-up quarterback on his high-school football team, the West Canaan Coyotes. In West Canaan, the only thing that matters is football, and the man who matters is the one with 22 divisional championships, coach Bud Kilmer (Jon Voight). Mox, as the young "A" student is called, is wrapping up his senior year on his way to Brown University in the shadow of his childhood friend, star quarterback Lance Harbor (Paul Walker). With only five games until the end of the season, Kilmer pushes his players too hard, and Lance suffers a career-ending injury, forcing Mox to play and win the game. Now the starter, Mox must deal with his newfound celebrity; the attentions of Lance's girlfriend, head-cheerleader Darcy (Ali Larter); prevent his friends and fellow players Billy Bob (Ron Lester) and Tweeder (Scott Caan) from self-destructing; prevent Coach Kilmer from crushing everybody; and hold on to his own girlfriend, Lance's sister Jules (Amy Smart). Oh, and Mox must also win the championship and prove himself the hero. ~ Ron Wells, All Movie Guide
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]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:14:26 GMTVarsity Blues1999Brian RobbinsIn his first feature following the success of television's Dawson's Creek, <a href="/players/P___200937/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>James Van Der Beek</a> stars as Jonathan Moxon, the back-up quarterback on his high-school football team, the West Canaan Coyotes. In West Canaan, the only thing that matters is football, and the man who matters is the one with 22 divisional championships, coach Bud Kilmer (<a href="/players/P___115561/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Jon Voight</a>). Mox, as the young "A" student is called, is wrapping up his senior year on his way to Brown University in the shadow of his childhood friend, star quarterback Lance Harbor (Paul Walker). With only five games until the end of the season, Kilmer pushes his players too hard, and Lance suffers a career-ending injury, forcing Mox to play and win the game. Now the starter, Mox must deal with his newfound celebrity; the attentions of Lance's girlfriend, head-cheerleader Darcy (<a href="/players/P___266610/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Ali Larter</a>); prevent his friends and fellow players Billy Bob (Ron Lester) and Tweeder (<a href="/players/P___195366/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Scott Caan</a>) from self-destructing; prevent Coach Kilmer from crushing everybody; and hold on to his own girlfriend, Lance's sister Jules (<a href="/players/P___235676/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Amy Smart</a>). Oh, and Mox must also win the championship and prove himself the hero. ~ Ron Wells, All Movie Guide13Tag Target (>10)1742http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t03146onfhw.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Varsity_Blues/129420/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/2/26/25628.aspx Post By: Karina
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Post Date: 2/26/2008 5:01:11 PM
Body: Naked pictures of a stripper? Not news. Naked pictures of a stripper-turned-Oscar-winning-screenwriter? Eh. Pictures of a stripper-turned-Oscar-winning-screenwriter emulating the naked-but-for-whipped-cream scene from the classic James Van Der Beek vehicle Varsity Blues? News enough! Meanwhile, proving that no good-intentioned attempt to bridge the cultural-political divide goes unpunished, some people are mad that soldiers presented Oscars. Interestingly, most of the complaints conflate the two documentary awards into the claim that the Academy implicitly mocked the soldiers by forcing them to give an award to the anti-Iraq war film Taxi to the Darkside. In fact, the soldiers presented the Best Documentary Short award, which went to Freeheld. Debbie Schlussel, probably the most hateful of the Hollywood haters, gets that part right, but she also repeatedly insists that Diablo Cody is fat, which, as the above pictures of her ribcage should show, is definitely wrong. David Bordwell credits “piracy” for ensuring the classic status of His Girl Friday. “If Columbia had renewed its copyright on schedule, would this film be so widely admired today?” Jason Mittel agrees in theory, but takes issue with Bordwell’s use of the p-word. “Once the film lapsed into the public domain, all of the resulting shoddy copies were legal and licit, not pirated. A more accurate term would be ‘unauthorized’…” I guess WIRED bloggers aren’t allowed to say “fuck.” Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » karina
]]>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:01:11 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog2/26/2008 5:01:11 PM Naked pictures of a stripper? Not news. Naked pictures of a stripper-turned-Oscar-winning-screenwriter? Eh. Pictures of a stripper-turned-Oscar-winning-screenwriter emulating the naked-but-for-whipped-cream scene from the classic James Van Der Beek vehicle Varsity Blues? News enough! Meanwhile, proving that no good-intentioned attempt to bridge the cultural-political divide goes unpunished, some people are mad that soldiers presented Oscars. Interestingly, most of the complaints conflate the two documentary awards into the claim that the Academy implicitly mocked the soldiers by forcing them to give an award to the anti-Iraq war film Taxi to the Darkside. In fact, the soldiers presented the Best Documentary Short award, which went to Freeheld. Debbie Schlussel, probably the most hateful of the Hollywood haters, gets that part right, but she also repeatedly insists that Diablo Cody is fat, which, as the above pictures of her ribcage should show, is definitely wrong. David Bordwell credits “piracy” for ensuring the classic status of His Girl Friday. “If Columbia had renewed its copyright on schedule, would this film be so widely admired today?” Jason Mittel agrees in theory, but takes issue with Bordwell’s use of the p-word. “Once the film lapsed into the public domain, all of the resulting shoddy copies were legal and licit, not pirated. A more accurate term would be ‘unauthorized’…” I guess WIRED bloggers aren’t allowed to say “fuck.” Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » karina http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/2/26/25626.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 2/26/2008 5:00:57 PM
Body: Naked pictures of a stripper? Not news. Naked pictures of a stripper-turned-Oscar-winning-screenwriter? Eh. Pictures of a stripper-turned-Oscar-winning-screenwriter emulating the naked-but-for-whipped-cream scene from the classic James Van Der Beek vehicle Varsity Blues? News enough! Meanwhile, proving that no good-intentioned attempt to bridge the cultural-political divide goes unpunished, some people are mad that soldiers presented Oscars. Interestingly, most of the complaints conflate the two documentary awards into the claim that the Academy implicitly mocked the soldiers by forcing them to give an award to the anti-Iraq war film Taxi to the Darkside. In fact, the soldiers presented the Best Documentary Short award, which went to Freeheld. Debbie Schlussel, probably the most hateful of the Hollywood haters, gets that part right, but she also repeatedly insists that Diablo Cody is fat, which, as the above pictures of her ribcage should show, is definitely wrong. David Bordwell credits “piracy” for ensuring the classic status of His Girl Friday. “If Columbia had renewed its copyright on schedule, would this film be so widely admired today?” Jason Mittel agrees in theory, but takes issue with Bordwell’s use of the p-word. “Once the film lapsed into the public domain, all of the resulting shoddy copies were legal and licit, not pirated. A more accurate term would be ‘unauthorized’…” I guess WIRED bloggers aren’t allowed to say “fuck.” Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:00:57 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com2/26/2008 5:00:57 PM Naked pictures of a stripper? Not news. Naked pictures of a stripper-turned-Oscar-winning-screenwriter? Eh. Pictures of a stripper-turned-Oscar-winning-screenwriter emulating the naked-but-for-whipped-cream scene from the classic James Van Der Beek vehicle Varsity Blues? News enough! Meanwhile, proving that no good-intentioned attempt to bridge the cultural-political divide goes unpunished, some people are mad that soldiers presented Oscars. Interestingly, most of the complaints conflate the two documentary awards into the claim that the Academy implicitly mocked the soldiers by forcing them to give an award to the anti-Iraq war film Taxi to the Darkside. In fact, the soldiers presented the Best Documentary Short award, which went to Freeheld. Debbie Schlussel, probably the most hateful of the Hollywood haters, gets that part right, but she also repeatedly insists that Diablo Cody is fat, which, as the above pictures of her ribcage should show, is definitely wrong. David Bordwell credits “piracy” for ensuring the classic status of His Girl Friday. “If Columbia had renewed its copyright on schedule, would this film be so widely admired today?” Jason Mittel agrees in theory, but takes issue with Bordwell’s use of the p-word. “Once the film lapsed into the public domain, all of the resulting shoddy copies were legal and licit, not pirated. A more accurate term would be ‘unauthorized’…” I guess WIRED bloggers aren’t allowed to say “fuck.” Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/2/19/25336.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 2/19/2008 4:01:08 PM
Body: As a former fat guy, I have to salute actor Ron Lester, who went on the Today Show yesterday showing off his slim figure (see the segment here). You may remember Lester as the really, really fat high school football player “Billy Bob” from Varsity Blues, or his identical character from Not Another Teen Movie. Back in 2001, he lost 315lbs. — 43lbs. of it extra skin that had to be removed — and even lost 2 inches worth of height (thanks to the weight lost from his head). He did this by gastric bypass surgery and it was primarily for heath reasons, but damn if he doesn’t look much better, too. The problem is, according to the person submitting this story to Fark.com, he may now be handsomer but he may also have cost himself his acting career. Obviously he had been employed in the past for his physique more than his acting talent, and now he’s missing that thing that guaranteed his being hired (his only significant movie post-surgery was Karate Dog). Certainly he’d rather be alive, though, than typecast. It’s not like he just went out and got plastic surgery thinking he’d be better off in an industry obsessed with good looks. But I did immediately think of Jennifer Grey and Meg Ryan as two prime examples of how physical changes, which were intended to be favorable, ended up more damaging career-wise. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:01:08 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com2/19/2008 4:01:08 PMAs a former fat guy, I have to salute actor Ron Lester, who went on the Today Show yesterday showing off his slim figure (see the segment here). You may remember Lester as the really, really fat high school football player “Billy Bob” from Varsity Blues, or his identical character from Not Another Teen Movie. Back in 2001, he lost 315lbs. — 43lbs. of it extra skin that had to be removed — and even lost 2 inches worth of height (thanks to the weight lost from his head). He did this by gastric bypass surgery and it was primarily for heath reasons, but damn if he doesn’t look much better, too. The problem is, according to the person submitting this story to Fark.com, he may now be handsomer but he may also have cost himself his acting career. Obviously he had been employed in the past for his physique more than his acting talent, and now he’s missing that thing that guaranteed his being hired (his only significant movie post-surgery was Karate Dog). Certainly he’d rather be alive, though, than typecast. It’s not like he just went out and got plastic surgery thinking he’d be better off in an industry obsessed with good looks. But I did immediately think of Jennifer Grey and Meg Ryan as two prime examples of how physical changes, which were intended to be favorable, ended up more damaging career-wise. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/jakestevens/archive/2007/11/6/21467.aspx Post By: JakeStevens
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Post Date: 11/6/2007 1:36:25 PM
Body: Even though it's predictable as hell and a bit cheesy, I can't say I hated Varsity Blues. The characters are likeable, the "action" scenes well photographed, and it's got Ali Larter on a whipped cream bathing suit. Yum.
]]>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:36:25 GMTJakeStevensJakeStevens Blog11/6/2007 1:36:25 PMEven though it&#39;s predictable as hell and a bit cheesy, I can&#39;t say I hated Varsity Blues. The characters are likeable, the &quot;action&quot; scenes well photographed, and it&#39;s got Ali Larter on a whipped cream bathing suit. Yum. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/friendship/MemberTagFilms.aspxfriendship
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