Director White knows Boston?s game
Boston Globe, MA
April 3, 2007
Leave it to Mike White to be the guy who badmouths the Bosox on Opening Day. The celebrated screenwriter of such dark comedies as "Chuck & Buck" and "The Good Girl" believes the city's obsession with baseball is way over the top. "[The Red Sox] are on every newscast and every magazine cover here," said White, a Wesleyan grad who was in the Hub yesterday to promote his latest laugher, "Year of the Dog." "OK, I get it -- they're the Red Sox. . . . What you realize is that baseball's a crazy, cult-like, religious thing in Boston." The new movie, which stars Molly Shannon as a woman whose life falls apart after her four-legged friend dies, is White's directorial debut. "Working with the dogs was great," he said, "it was the babies who were a nightmare." Asked to explain his famously skewed sensibility, White said he can't help himself. "I like it when people don't know if they should laugh or cry," he said. Most folks laughed at "The School of Rock," the Jack Black box-office hit written by White. Why, we wondered, did Boston bad boys Aerosmith not make the movie's soundtrack ? "A lot of people think I'm a big music fan because of that movie, but I'm not, really," he said. "When Rush comes to Hollywood, they seek me out to party. It's weird." As for Aerosmith, don't feel bad for them. "They're doing just fine without a shout-out from me," he said.
April 3, 2007
Leave it to Mike White to be the guy who badmouths the Bosox on Opening Day. The celebrated screenwriter of such dark comedies as "Chuck & Buck" and "The Good Girl" believes the city's obsession with baseball is way over the top. "[The Red Sox] are on every newscast and every magazine cover here," said White, a Wesleyan grad who was in the Hub yesterday to promote his latest laugher, "Year of the Dog." "OK, I get it -- they're the Red Sox. . . . What you realize is that baseball's a crazy, cult-like, religious thing in Boston." The new movie, which stars Molly Shannon as a woman whose life falls apart after her four-legged friend dies, is White's directorial debut. "Working with the dogs was great," he said, "it was the babies who were a nightmare." Asked to explain his famously skewed sensibility, White said he can't help himself. "I like it when people don't know if they should laugh or cry," he said. Most folks laughed at "The School of Rock," the Jack Black box-office hit written by White. Why, we wondered, did Boston bad boys Aerosmith not make the movie's soundtrack ? "A lot of people think I'm a big music fan because of that movie, but I'm not, really," he said. "When Rush comes to Hollywood, they seek me out to party. It's weird." As for Aerosmith, don't feel bad for them. "They're doing just fine without a shout-out from me," he said.
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