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Jon Katz To Be Played By Jeff Bridges
Robotech_Master writes, "Long-time Slashdot veterans will remember Jon Katz, the editorial writer whose Slashdot articles invariably generated heated controversy. It appears he may have the last laugh; how many of the Slashdot posters who ridiculed him went on to be played by Jeff Bridges in a movie? From the article: 'In his new book, "A Good Dog: The Story of Orson," Katz chronicles the life and death of the lovable but troubled border collie that transformed his life. It continues the story begun in Katz's last book, "A Dog Year," now being made into a movie starring Jeff Bridges as Katz.' Katz critics may get a chuckle out of the plot synopsis for the film: 'A man having a mid-life crisis has his life turned upside down when he takes in a border collie crazier than he is.'" The film should be released in late 2007.
A man having a mid-life crisis has his life turned upside down when he takes in a border collie crazier than he is.
Can't think of anyone better than Jeff Bridges to play that role.
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They've also announced that CowboyNeal will be played by a CGI'd Andy Serkis.
In other news, Tom Cruise to play Roland Piquepaille.
-Peter
PS: Dude, you're being very un-dude right now.
...really tied the room together, man.
I can understand why Katz and his dog were so close. What Katz wrote was almost identical to what came out of his dog's rear end.
I want a new quote. One that won't spill. One that don't cost too much. Or come in a pill.
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Who plays Junis? Kevin Federline?
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He had ordered a new PC via mail order. When it was delivered, the cards were loose. So loose that his dog picked up the motherboard in its mouth and walked around the house.
Anyone who has actually assembled a computer will see the flaws in his stories. Or anyone who has owned a dog.
Indeed, the way of the dodo -- like the American educational system. In its place, a Satanic hellhole of perfidious opporession. The greater question here is not whether Jon Katz is related to the producers... but whether, in this post-9/11 era, any of us can truly say that we are more than a few degrees of separation from the producers ourselves? And what does that say for our crazy, mixed-up culture, when so many of our voices are forever silenced, gagged by forces every bit as insidious as the MPAA itself? I say here's to the new heroes of this tumultuous age, so powerfully exemplified by the likes of Jon Katz and the heart-wrenching experiences to which he was subjected in this, the cruelest of online forums.
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Don't get me wrong, I think Jeff Bridges is great (Tron atones for a multitude of sins), but in my family we have a saying: "Want your movie to fail? Cast Jeff Bridges."
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I'm just surprised that in a post-Columbine world, this movie would get made.
oh, THAT guy.
Every time I've just about forgotten about Katz something comes along to remind me of his existence. Usually a "Whatever happened to Jon Katz" posting on this site. Apparently he was not killed by a pack of wild dingoes as per my previous speculation. So I'd suggest looking forward to that 20 part "Columbine Revisited" story any day now. On the plus side I probably won't see it if it's posted on this site -- I got my account here for the sole purpose of disabling posts from him and as far as I know there's still a setting in the database preventing me from seeing a story by him (If not about him)
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Just tell me where we found a Border Collie crazier than Jon Katz...
SIG: HUP
Ah, JonKatz. The sole reason that I finally relented and created a user account, just so I could filter out his inane babbling. Good times, good times.
wow - i didn't know that the Dr Katz cartoon had such a big fanbase to warrant a live action movie. My head always hurt after watching it, with all the squiggly lines and all. So will Jeff Bridges be shaving his head or just going to wear a wig?
Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain.
We have suffered much for Jon's art. Must we suffer more?
Speak truth to power.
> Seriously though, I think a few things might have changed in thirty fucking years. Like the whole cultural backdrop.
Lets see, civilization has been around for about 6000 years or so. During this time teens:
- sometimes felt alienated
- sometimes fell in love
- sometimes were enslaved or exploited
- sometimes got sand kicked in their faces
- sometimes had little to hope for
- sometimes were harassed by bullies
- etc, etc, etc
So there are some minor differences, so what? It's not like we're talking about silicon-based lifeforms here. Trying to understand the lives of other people is what historians, anthropologies and authors do. It's their job, and they are often good at it.
The pathetic thing is the tendency for people to think that their situation is special and nobody has ever been in that situation or could even comprehend it. Man, kids griping about how tough it is to be a kid today should be drop-shipped into Bagdad or Sudan to see what they think about tough lives.
Say what you like about the tenets of the American educational system, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
Taco! there is something wrong with slashcode. I blocked these jon katz stories ages ago. Heck i never even read the Junis story on slashdot until someone told me. WTF is this doing on the front page. Where should i submit the bug?
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The war on terror is a war for peace
No, Junis dug it up out of the sand along with his Commodore 64, and sent the dog to Katz after using his trusty Commodore to purchase food from Pets.com.
I went from 0 to +50 Karma just pointing out the most obvious flaws in his "articles". Good times.
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-Has almost no plot, everything good about the movie is dependent on the random conversations of the people next to you in the theater.
The only reason why his Hellmouth article was anything near decent is because it covered a national tragedy that was pretty much non-technical in nature. So the Columbine killers played DOOM, big whoop. 30 years ago they would have been playing Dungeons and Dragons....the board game version.
People here on Slashdot hate JonKatz because he's a non-geek. He is practically computer illiterate yet he weighed in on highly technical subjects like he knew first thing about them. Look up his other articles. You'll see.
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Also, the movie is only 5 minutes long, but it's repeated 25 times.
I signed up for an account just so I could block him. If only I had known earlier. I could have had one of those cool four digit numbers.
Speaking as a professional dog trainer, this sort of crap just fuels every sort of problem people can have with their pets, including the notion that it's okay to just confiscate dogs because you don't like their owners.
Plus he's supporting the "animal rights" loons by his willingness to be part of this outright theft. They're NOT about being good to animals; they're about depriving people of *human* rights. Hmm... they say dogs are equivalent to children, and it's okay to steal a dog if they don't like how it's kept. What if "activists" don't like how you raise your kids, should they be allowed to just take them??
I got along okay with Katz until he was a party to stealing that dog.
I wonder if the original owner knows where his dog is.
As to "Orson", my experience is that if the dog is the least little bit "off", people like Katz make the dog's behaviour vastly worse than it would be in the hands of someone who actually knows what they're doing. And THESE are the people "rescuing" dogs -- often dogs that are psychologically marginal in the first place (there *is* inherited psychosis in dogs).
One has to wonder how much of this is by DESIGN, to cause people to fear their pets and be more willing to give them up. After all, PETA and HSUS both have a stated goal of ELIMINATION OF PET OWNERSHIP.
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