From TV star to movie star and now moving into the producer role, Adam Scott is continuing his plan for world domination. He and his wife, Naomi Scott, have started a new production company called Gettin' Rad Productions. For their first foray into feature films, they've purchased the rights to Chuck Klosterman's book Downtown Owl. Oren Uziel (Mortal…
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In his new book of essays, Eating the Dinosaur, pop culture critic Chuck Klosterman posits that "as a species we have never been less human than we are right now." Part of the reason why this has happened, he says, is that our growing consumption of media, movies, and entertainment has made it so that…
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Any pop culture writer today worth a scan online has a unique opinion on Chuck Klosterman. The renown American author and journalist made a name for himself in the aughts with witty, hyper-informed contributions as a former senior writer and columnist at SPIN. In 2003, he released a bestselling book of essays about "low culture"…
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Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing author and renown pop culture critic, Chuck Klosterman, for /Film on subjects ranging from whether or not Avatar will be the cinematic equivalent of Chinese Democracy to the abstract theory that our society is unconsciously working for Don Draper. I'll be posting the results shortly, but for the time being, here is what Klosterman…
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If there's a writer who is perfect to make more out of a music and Midwest memoir than the original text offers, it might be Craig Finn, singer and lyricist for The Hold Steady. Finn and longtime The Late Show with David Letterman writer Tom Ruprecht have picked up the rights to Fargo Rock City,…
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I would like to think that many of the people that frequent /Film know who Chuck Klosterman is. But truth is, I only found out about him four or five years ago through his pop culture-infused book Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs. Yet I'm guessing most people probably know him as a rock journalist (which…
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