Hollywood Double Mugs

'Please welcome next . . .'

"For the best picture not having won anything thereby being eliminated from this category..."

Screenwriters pitch movie to studio boss: 'It's a reinterpretation of Bicycle Thieves, that classic of Italian neo-realism. We're calling it, Dude, Where's My Chopper?'

King Kong uses fly spray against the pesky planes on top of the Empire State Building

"Seth, here, is one of the best young creative compromisers in the business."

Marilyn Monroe - Spot the Difference

Canadian film production

'...And now, the film most criticized for eroding traditional family values, the nominees are...'

Why you've never heard of Ricky Rat.

"OK, stop me if you've never heard this before!"

"Which part are you reading for?"

'For the actress who benefitted most by rehab...'

Tom Hanks

Film Star Robert de Niro

"Hello. I'm director Bob ('Blue Fires') Munsey and this is screenwriter Doris ('Highway to Nowhere') Winslow."

"They tell me you're a man who has True Magritte."

Martin Scorsese

THE WICKERMAN (Hollywood style)

Quentin Tarantino

Los Angeles, 1928: Mickey Mouse Emerges from the Primordial Ooze.

'Harlow, why can't you be passionate like Mel Gibson?'

Blockbuster Billion Club

Jim Carrey,

David Niven caricature

"I fell in the mud again. Maybe I need a stunt double."

'Vital mission - movie parody'

Hollywood producer.

Danae's Celebrity Career: 'I don't know where to begin in deciding what I want to be when I grow up...I want people to shut and leave me alone, and I need lots of attention, so...'

Geoffrey Rush

'Ok, this sty is great and all, but can we get some huge explosions? Wilbur, could you say 'it's about to get real'?'

"Although the depiction of gangland activity in this film is not accurate over all, I would like to go on record as saying that I am not entirely displeased with Mr. Robert De Niro's portrayal of a gentleman whom I take to have been a former associate of yours truly."

Jack Nicholson

The Directors Gut.

Casting in the swamp.

"Which should we go see: the straight romantic comedy where the heroine's best friend is a gay man, or the gay romantic comedy where the hero's best friend is a straight woman?"