‘The Cyber Issue’ Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. Big Movies Reviewed are Requiem For a Dream and Nurse Betty. Packed full of fag adverts plus Ask Jeeves also gets a promo push. Most home retail releases can’t decide whether VHS or DVD should be the adverts focus.

An article on auteurs who moonlight making commercials. Tim Burton and Doug Liman are less surprising than The Coens and Kevin Smith.

Cameron Crowe’s beloved Almost Famous is devoted the most ink. The only telling revelation is they only had Philip Seymour Hoffman for 4 days of shooting and he spent a lot of that time hiding in his trailer “with flu”. Riggghhht! Check out that Sony DVD player ad where the couple get horny watching Wild Things…

A gore piece about Mike Myers and Universal Studios suing each other after an aborted attempt to turn his SNL character Dieter into the next Wayne’s World or Austin Powers. Gets really nasty and candid about Myers’ controlling nature on set and accusations of anti-semitism to destroy his standing in Hollywood.

Björk profile for Lar Von Trier’s Dancer In The Dark where the interviewer seems utterly baffled by the Swedish art popstar’s inability to play the promo game.

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