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Kazaam Director Defends Shaq Movie About Rapping Genie

Kazaam Director Defends Shaq Movie About Rapping Genie

The director of Shaquille O’Neal’s 1996 musical comedy Kazaam is offering his thoughts on the new Scary Movie taking a swing at his film. In the Paramount comedy reboot that topped the box office over its opening weekend after debuting June 5 (with mild spoilers ahead), O’Neal is unmasked as Ghostface in a cameo near the end of the movie. Shorty Meeks, the franchise mainstay played by producer and co-writer Marlon Wayans, impersonates O’Neal as a mumbling NBA commentator before quipping, “But I never got over Kazaam.” He then kills the basketball legend for starring as a rapping genie in the Disney movie that underperformed at the box office 30 years ago. “I had no clue,” Paul Michael Glaser tells The Hollywood Reporter about whether he knew the joke was coming. The Kazaam director adds diplomatically, “It’s nice that something you worked on has some resonance.” After hearing a description of the joke, Glaser — known both for filmmaking and for such acting roles as Detective Dave Starsky in the series Starsky & Hutch — admits …

Matt Damon Will Do Whatever It Takes to Focus Attention on the Global Water Crisis. That Includes Rapping

Matt Damon Will Do Whatever It Takes to Focus Attention on the Global Water Crisis. That Includes Rapping

What we’ve been able to do is actually connect the capital markets to these financial partners. We have over 200 financial partners around the world that are making these loans. And so now you can see, okay, if we can create the financial plumbing that can connect somebody in the US who wants a financial return on their investment with a woman who needs a loan and can repay that loan, then it’s like, okay, we have a solution that really starts to map to what we’re talking about. And I think that’s key to it. But I also don’t want it to get… We’re seeing Get Blue as a way for us to take this story in a different direction. I can geek out on all this… Damon: We can put you right to sleep. And we have, at conferences, all over the world…. White: That’s what we’re trying to do now. Damon: We should have an app. A sleep app. Your dulcet tones. But, OK—so the focus is shifting, with this GetBlue campaign. …