'Be Cool' In Theaters March 4, 2005
Los Angeles Times - CA
February 11, 2005
"If the sight of Phil Jackson coaching the Lakers seems too Hollywood even for Hollywood's team, you're right. And if the slim possibility that he'd return did come true, it still wouldn't be in time to save his scene in the soon-to-be-released movie, 'Be Cool'.....'The movie comes out March 4,' said F. Gary Gray, the film's director......"
"The scene from this sequel to 'Get Shorty' features hip mobster-turned-movie-producer-turned-record-mogul Chili Palmer (John Travolta) taking Edie Athens (Uma Thurman) to a Laker game so they can meet Aerosmith's Steven Tyler. Palmer uses his friendship with Phil Jackson to get the tickets. Movie producer Martin Weir (Danny DeVito) is also at the game, with Anna Nicole Smith as his date. After the game, in a scene shot well after the final buzzer and with actors wearing Laker uniforms, Weir tries to impress everyone by introducing Palmer to Jackson as he walks back to the locker room....."
" 'You have legends and icons all within the same scene,' Gray said. 'All within the same shot. In the Staples Center. It doesn't get any better than that.' They filmed during the Lakers' game against the Sacramento Kings last Feb. 26. The Lakers lost that night, but 'in our movie they won,' Gray said....."
February 11, 2005
"If the sight of Phil Jackson coaching the Lakers seems too Hollywood even for Hollywood's team, you're right. And if the slim possibility that he'd return did come true, it still wouldn't be in time to save his scene in the soon-to-be-released movie, 'Be Cool'.....'The movie comes out March 4,' said F. Gary Gray, the film's director......"
"The scene from this sequel to 'Get Shorty' features hip mobster-turned-movie-producer-turned-record-mogul Chili Palmer (John Travolta) taking Edie Athens (Uma Thurman) to a Laker game so they can meet Aerosmith's Steven Tyler. Palmer uses his friendship with Phil Jackson to get the tickets. Movie producer Martin Weir (Danny DeVito) is also at the game, with Anna Nicole Smith as his date. After the game, in a scene shot well after the final buzzer and with actors wearing Laker uniforms, Weir tries to impress everyone by introducing Palmer to Jackson as he walks back to the locker room....."
" 'You have legends and icons all within the same scene,' Gray said. 'All within the same shot. In the Staples Center. It doesn't get any better than that.' They filmed during the Lakers' game against the Sacramento Kings last Feb. 26. The Lakers lost that night, but 'in our movie they won,' Gray said....."
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