Ben Stiller, who’s currently promoting his new Noah Baumbach movie, Greenberg (which opens in New York and LA this Friday), recently dropped by Between Two Ferns for an interview with Zach Galifianikis. Among the topics discussed: the “Blue Steel” look from Jewlander, a possible lighthouse attendant role for Zach in A Night at the Museum 3, and possible regrets Ben might have about not following his parents into comedy. Watch the video after the jump, and get the details on our Greenberg giveaway. One lucky winner will take home a green iPod shuffle and a James Murphy sampler!
In the trailer for Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg, Ben Stiller (who plays the title character) complains that no one calls him on his birthday anymore, writes an angry letter to Starbucks, and worries that he’ll catch the illness that’s afflicting his dog. “I’m freaked out by you kids because your parents were too perfect at parenting, all that Baby Mozart and Dan Zanes songs. You’re all ADD and carpal tunnel,” he says to a room full of 20-somethings. “I hope I die before I end up meeting one of you in a job interview.”
Yes, it looks like Greenberg, which comes out next March, is Baumbach’s take on aging. After the jump, check out the first trailer and follow along as we pass premature judgment.
The inaugural Electric Zoo electronic music festival — which took over Randall’s Island over Labor Day weekend — was an unmitigated success. Not that the gorgeous weather didn’t do its part, but Made Event should be commended for putting on a large-scale festival that still felt intimate and for curating a diverse line-up of artists that didn’t feel schizophrenic. Perhaps there was no greater measure of the festival’s success than seeing fun fur-clad hoop dancers, shirtless frat boys, Wayfarer-wearing hipsters, and former club kids all getting down with equal abandon to James Murphy and Pat Mahoney’s closing night Special Disco Version set. Something had to be right if that mixed of a crowd was losing it to a Paul McCartney disco one-off at the same time that David Guetta was pounding the main stage with his arena-sized Sexy French House. Read More »
1. Twitter trumps the mainstream media in its streaming coverage of the Iranian protests, in which 7 people were killed yesterday. (The service even postponed an important upgrade.) Also, read this. [via Brietbart]
2. After losing an advertiser and on the verge of a 2-year contract renewal, David Letterman apologized to Sarah Palin on his show last night — for reals this time. (video) [via The Live Feed]
3. James Murphy isn’t producing the new Devo album, but he’d like to work with them. So would Justice and Fatboy Slim. [via Pop & Hiss]
4. Next month Taschen will release Norman Mailer’s first posthumously published book, Moonfire. It will cost $1000, and comes with a signed photo of Buzz Aldrin. Twelve copies will also come with a chunk of the moon. [via Publishers Weekly]
5. Architect Richard Rogers, who was fired from the multibillion pound Chelsea Barracks project in London last week, wants an investigation into Prince Charles’ “unconstiutional” involvment. [via The Guardian]
“i was very hungover today, mainly because i drank a lot of drinks with alcohol in them yesterday. i accompanied my tv star friend to the mtv movie awards because it seemed like the most hilariously hollywood thing i could possibly do right then, and wound up at times pretending to be either his publicist or body guard, which was very funny. i also ate a lot of these skewers with a shrimp and a green olive on them. they were good, but not substantial enough really to soak up the shitty free beer that they have at these things.”
- James Murphy on his MySpace blog. He goes on to chronicle what he learned at the MTV Movie Awards, namely that Will Ferrell is nice, Danny McBride is hilarious, and Chris Isaacs really likes his dog. PS: We had no idea Murphy was so tight with Aziz Ansari.
