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AllSimpson.com is the
unofficial fanlisting for the
beautiful and talented actress
Jessica Simpson. We provide the
biography, discography, latest news,
pictures, and much more. I hope you
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:: August 2005 :: |
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2005 -
Rocky Mountain
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Simpson Patriarch Is California Dreamin' |
Considering the
frequency with which he shows up at events and in
photos along with his daughters Jessica and Ashlee,
you might guess that manager-producer Joe Simpson
craves the limelight himself. And you'd be right.
"My first love is film, always. I wanted to be an
actor. That was my dream as a young man," Simpson
says. "Now it's a whole lot better to be the guy
behind the camera. This is the area where I really
do my best stuff. It doesn't matter what you look
like or if your hair's right." He has the E!
Entertainment Television reality series Filthy Rich:
Cattle Drive on the air, but it's just the
beginning, he says.
"We're going to do a movie called Major Movie Star
with Warner Brothers. Also, Joel Silver and I are
doing a movie together that I wrote," he says,
referring to the superproducer of blockbusters such
as the Matrix and Lethal Weapon movies.
Despite having never achieved his dreams of becoming
an actor, Simpson says he has new dreams coming true
every day. "There's something very invigorating
about getting up every day and doing things you
love," he gushes. "Hollywood is where, if you can
dream it, you can do it. To me, that's what this job
is. I get to dream and then go make it happen."
THE VIDEOLAND VIEW: The Joey troops will be sticking
it to Hollywood big time this coming season, as the
Matt LeBlanc series shifts its focus away from Joey
Tribbiani's family and toward his acting career,
with agent Jennifer Coolidge now a regular and
Miguel Nunez aboard as an actor buddy of Joey's who
thinks he's more talented than he really is.
Juwanna Mann actor Nunez says he's adding elements
of his "Def Comedy timing" to the show, which ought
to be interesting. He also says he sat down with the
Joey writers and chatted about his own experiences
to add grist to their story mill.
"Hollywood is the best place to get your humor,"
Nunez says. "I know I've done some crazy stuff. I
was asked to crash a car through a window in a scene
to rescue a dog. I've been on a black show with all
white writers who didn't really know what black
people would do in a situation, so they wrote what
they thought it would be funny to see black people
doing. That was tough."
He laughs and adds: "When you see actors who
do-do-do-do a lot of stuff, physical bits, making
faces, they're trying to make something work without
the material being there. But when the writing is
good, when it's funny, all you have to do is say the
lines."
Now he's having a blast working with LeBlanc and the
writing "is really funny," he says. "I'm not a bad
influence on Joey. I'm always trying to help him get
where he's going, to help him make his career." With
a Sept. 21 hourlong season opener, Joey will also
see the title character achieve his first taste of
success this season, landing the lead in a
big-budget feature. Maybe he can work for Joe
Simpson.
MAN ON THE RUN: Sam Elliott might just be taking the
Hardest Working Actor in the Movies title soon if he
keeps up the pace he's been on for the past year or
so. He's scheduled to begin Avenger Oct. 27 in Cape
Town, South Africa. It's about the international
hunt for a Serbian strongman who's been responsible
for genocide. Elliott recently wrapped The Final
Season, playing a high school baseball coach. Also
in the pipeline, he has the satire Thank You for
Smoking, plays a creepy graveyard caretaker in
Nicolas Cage's upcoming $130 million,
supernatural-themed Ghost Rider, portrays a Mormon
hit man in the indie comedy The Alibi and provides
the voice of Ben the Cow in funnyman Steve
Oedekerk's forthcoming animated movie Barnyard.
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