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Outrageous quotes of the day

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1) How well do you think Josh Brolin got along with Russell Crowe when they were making ‘American Gangster’ together? I’m guessing, on a 1-to-10 scale, about a 2. Brolin was in rare form at last night’s New York Film Critics Circle Awards dinner, especially after he won best supporting actor for his role in ‘Milk.’ After Sean Penn introduced him, Brolin accepted his award, saying to the crowd: ‘Quite an actor, Sean Penn. And not an ... like Russell Crowe.’ After the titters subsided, he said it again: ‘Like Russell Crowe.’ (Penn used a casual swear word to describe Crowe, but because of our strict no-bad-language standards at the Times, I’m not allowed to reprint it in the blog, so you’ll have to go the above link to see which word he used.)

2) Nobody shoots from the hip quite like Clint Eastwood, who clearly doesn’t believe in politically correct behavior of any kind. I only wish he would do a satire about L.A. private schools, which would offer ample opportunities to make fun of our generation of overly protected kids and overly entitled parents. Interviewed in the current issue of Esquire, the always-blunt Eastwood had this to say: ‘We live in a pussy generation now, where everybody’s become used to saying, ‘Well, how do we handle it psychologically?’ [When I was young] you just punched the bully back and duked it out. Even if the guy was older and could push you around, at least you were respected for fighting back and you’d be left alone from then on.’

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3) It’s apparently no secret that Johnny Depp didn’t get along with the famously perfectionist Michael Mann during the filming of ‘Public Enemies,’ the John Dillinger gangster movie that’s due out this summer. Personally, I can’t wait to see the film -- Mann doing 1930s Chicago tough guys sounds like a match made in heaven. Interviewed in this week’s Entertainment Weekly, Depp only alludes to his issues with the Mann work process, which he slyly describes as ‘the details of the details of the details. They should invent a word to describe it, because it’s not just details, it teeters on microscopic obsession with every molecule of the moment.’

Asked about his favorite scene to shoot in the film, Depp replies: ‘Let’s just say, how often do you get to stand on the running board of an old 1932 Buick blasting a 50-round clip from a Thompson submachine gun? When do you get to do that without getting into trouble for it? And with Michael, you get to do it again and again and again.’

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