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Eric Stoltz

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Sun, Jan 09, 2011
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Plus: celebs run afoul of Twitter; is True Grit going to the Oscars?; Hurley’s lotto numbers come up (almost); more…

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watch it: 1980s European Volkswagen Beetle commercial

Thu, Oct 14, 2010
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A hilarious tie-in to this week’s unveiling of never-before-seen video of Eric Stoltz’s brief tenure as Marty McFly…

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female gazing at: Eric Stoltz

Wed, Oct 13, 2010
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Just because the idea of Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future sounds wrong doesn’t mean he wouldn’t have been awfully cute as Marty McFly…

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question of the day: If Eric Stoltz could have been Marty McFly, what other 80s movies might have been differently cast?

Wed, Oct 13, 2010
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Did you know that Eric Stoltz was originally cast as Marty McFly in Back to the Future? I seem to vaguely recall hearing something along those lines, but now there’s video evidence… because Robert Zemeckis actually shot for weeks before deciding that Stoltz was wrong for the role.

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question of the day: Is there an anti anti-smoking backlash forming?

Mon, Jan 25, 2010
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Some people are bitching about the smoking in Avatar, which is more of the same-old, same-old we’ve been hearing for years now: smoking is evil, won’t someone think of the children, lighting up is worse than murder (at least on film), etc. Now, I’m not a smoker and I never enjoyed being in a smoky … more…

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