See you in the movies
You know how sometimes a real newspaper with mock headlines will be used in a major motion picture to illustrate the storyline? At the risk of revealing what high brow taste I have, all I can think of is "Stripes," which used magazines, and "Men in Black," which did it with supermarket tabloids. ("Best investigative journalism on the planet," Agent K told Agent J.) USA Today allows it routinely. On the other hand, some papers refuse to do it, so we get "The Washington Herald" in "The Pelican Brief", even though the typography is identical to The Washington Post's.
Anyway, we've been approached by the makers of "National Lampoon's The Trouble with Frank" to create some dummy front pages. The movie was filmed in the Triad last summer and stars Jon Bon Jovi, Nora Dunn, Estella Warren and Cary Elwes. The movie has to do with a women's hockey team and one of the requested faux front page headlines has to do with a hockey league closing. You think it's a little close to the news at home?
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John, re: the frontpew blog. It was in the (printed) paper so I tried to post a "welcome" comment. Got this error:
An error occurred:
No such entry '597'.
(Tell the underpaid geeks, pls :)
Posted on January 22, 2005 8:10 AM
We're trying to run it down now. I know the first post exists because I read it a couple days ago. Now we're trying to find Nancy (the author) to figure out where it is! You gotta love it, huh?
Posted on January 22, 2005 9:19 AM
Is it a telling point of my newspaper geekhood that I cringe at many of the fake newspapers used in movies? I'm sure my husband cringes, too, each time I interrupt the movie with a "There's no way that headline would get past the desk!" or "What a horrible design. No one would do that!"
Perhaps there's a career to be had here in movie consulting ...
-N&R designer
Posted on January 29, 2005 12:02 AM