When did Eddie Murphy stop doing stand-up? When did Jim Carrey lose his edge? Did Mark Wahlberg use a prosthetic in Boogie Nights ? Did Chloe Sevigny perform oral sex on Vincent Gallo on film? All this and more covered this week in Ask 411 Movies!
Aug. 16 marks the 34th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death. Readers of the column know I'm a big fan. For August, our YouTube clip of the week will be Presley's best covers. First off, the Simon and Garfunkle signature tune Bridge over Troubled Water .
LEONARD'S FAVORITE EPISODE OF THE A-TEAM
Every week I highlight my favorite episode of a popular television series.
The A-Team was a great blend of action and absurdity that perfectly appealed to children of the eighties. One of the most absurd installments was when the gang joined forces with rock star Boy George and his band Culture Club. "Cowboy George" from season four sees Face thinking he made a windfall by booking country singer Cowboy George in a country and western saloon, but he actually gets Boy George and Culture Club. Hannibal impersonates Cowboy George and the show goes fine. However, the owner of the saloon is conspiring with bank robbers to nab the payroll of a nearby oil field.
Longest movie title I could come up with by combining titles off the top of my head: A Midsummer Night's Sex and the Single White Men 
Broken up:
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Sex and the Single Girl
Single White Female
White Men
Can't Hardly Wait
Hardly Working
Working Girl
The Girl Next Door
Next Friday
Friday the 13th Part Three
Three Kings
Kings of Comedy
Comedy of Terrors
That's 13, try and do 14. No fair using imdb to cheat by looking up titles. Only feature films. Linking words have to be exact matches (like with Three Kings above, I couldn't use king or king's, it had to be kings)
It seems like I misunderstood a question about 'the end' last week. Barlow was asking about movies that end with 'the end?' if I understand it right now. I did some searching and couldn't find a list, so I turn to you the reader. If you know of a film that has 'the end?' at the end, please mention in the comments.
Q: You've answered questions regarding filmmakers losing their edge once they have children. But what about actors and actresses?
I can't help but of think of Eddie Murphy.He broke out big after SNL with 48 Hr's, Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop. But for the most part his early movie work remains his best stuff. All he seems to do nowadays is safe and crappy family films. Sure, the remakes of Dr. Dolittle and The Nutty Professor were alright. But outside of his great work on Dreamgirls (For which I still think Norbit cost him an Oscar win)he hasn't been the cool and edgy Eddie Murphy since back in the mid 80's. Any thoughts? And any others that could be included in that same folder?
-Ben Piper
A: As Nick mentioned in the comments, Brendan Fraser said he wants to do movies his children can see. Since 2002 when his first kid was born, he's mostly done family oriented pictures. Since 2002 he has done The Air I Breathe, The Last Time, Journey to the End of Night and Crash all rated R. However, his most high profile films since then have been The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Inkheart and Furry Vengeance .
Jim Carrey has also become more family friendly over the years, but his only daughter was born in 1987. Oddly, he broke his engagement with actress Renee Zellweger in 2000 when his first real big family movie, How the Grinch Stole Christmas was in theaters. They started dating while making Me, Myself Irene , released the same year, which might be Carrey's last real gross out, edgy type comedy.
Cuba Gooding Jr. has three children. Spencer born in 1994, Mason was born in 1996 and Piper was born in 2005. Gooding had a few decent performances after his Oscar win for Jerry Maguire in 1996. However, since 2000 he's mostly been in marginal films and his most publicized has been dopey comedies like Snow Dogs, Daddy Day Camp, Rat Race, Boat Trip and Norbit . He did have a small part in American Gangsta . Your mileage on Radio may vary.
Q: Did Mark Wahlberg use a prosthetic penis in the final scene of Boogie Nights?
Is there any mainstream popular non pornographic movie that contains real sex in the sex scene? There are movies that just look TOO convincing, like Monster's Ball, Never Die Alone, Desperado (and I think Eyes Wide Shut, not too sure)...I'm just wondering out of curiousity cause it's been bugging me for a long time
When did Eddie Murphy stop doing stand-up comedy? It seemed as if as soon as he REALLY hit it BIG in Hollywood he just stopped altogether while other comedians who hit it real big occasionally perform every now and then...
-Jackie Jay
A: neverAcquiesce in the comments last week said Sienna Miller and Hayden Chritiansen were rumored to have actually had sex in a scene from Factory Girl . An unnamed source told this to the New York Daily News in Jan. 2007. Miller's representative denied this in comments to TMZ.
Mario in the comments last week mentioned Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! from 1990. According to IMDB, the sex scene between Antonio Banderas and Victoria Abril was not real. Director Pedro Almodovar did nine takes in about nine hours. He used the last take because of the sweat and frenzy the actors had worked themselves into by that time. Director Elia Kazan said it was one of the best sex scenes he had ever seen. The movie had many graphic scenes, including women urinating on a toilet and Abril pleasuring herself in the bathtub with a motorized scuba diver toy. Protests from U.S. distributor Miramax helped lead to the NC-17 rating to differentiate between pornography and what can be considered legitimate cinema.
Lord Darias mentioned in the comments the notorious oral sex scene from 2003's The Brown Bunny between Vincent Gallo and Chloe Sevigny, which Guest 4786 disputed. Sevigny in several interviews has said the scene was real, including a Jan. 2011 interview in "Playboy Magazine." An excerpt from that interview on the Huffington Post reads:
"What's happened with that is all very complicated. There are a lot of emotions. I'll probably have to go to therapy at some point. But I love Vincent. The film is tragic and beautiful, and I'm proud of it and my performance. I'm sad that people think one way of the movie, but what can you do? I've done many explicit sex scenes, but I'm not that interested in doing any more. I'm more self-aware now and wouldn't be able to be as free, so why even do it?"
In the documentary Welcome To Cannes by Richard Schickel, filmmaker Claire Denis said Gallo used a prosthetic from her movie Trouble Every Day , that Gallo was in, and the scene was fake. So the legitimacy of the scene is certainly in question, but I don't see where Sevigny is served to claim it was real when it wasn't.
No trailer, it had a boob in it. We try to keep it somewhat clean around here. Just find it on YouTube, but you can find the scene in question on somewhat not clean sites.
Strummer mentioned in the comments Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger in The Getaway . The couple was married at the time of the remake. I found an interview by Bruno Lester with the two talking about the sex scene in the movie and it seems that it was simulated, if not very explicit and racy. From the interview:
"We did a lot of explicit stuff in the movie and some of the audience were very uncomfortable with the hot sex," laughs Baldwin. "They were squirming in their seats. We shot rolls and rolls of stuff and a lot of that had to be taken out of the film."
Basinger said: "Doing sex scenes are never comfortable. Even though I worked with Alec, it was still difficult. I mean, it's not Kim and Alec, it's our characters. I'm not going to share my bedroom habits, whether we swing from chandeliers or not, with anyone."
This link neverAcquiesce provided lists several movies with supposedly real sex scenes.
According to several sources, Mark Wahlberg used a rubber prosthetic penis for the last scene in Boogie Nights . Wahlberg said he was allowed to keep the prosthetic as a souvenir. Due to it being made of foam and biodegradable rubber it has eroded significantly since the movie was made in 1997, Wahlberg has said.
Perez Hilton quoted Eddie Murphy as saying the following about doing stand up comedy again in May, 2010:
"Within the last six months or so, I started getting an itch to do it again. I started writing stuff I was like, 'I could go and do 15, 20 minutes right now. Maybe in a couple of months I'll start working out again'. But it'll take a year before I'm ready to go on the road It's gonna take at least a year to get the rust off; 20 years of rust."
So by Murphy's count, he stopped doing stand up around 1990, which would seem right. Every few years Murphy has been quoted as saying he hasn't ruled stand up out and might do it again. I wouldn't believe it until you actually see him on stage.
Q: Just remember one FOX show that had a great premise but was cancelled: Brimstone.
-Guest 2349
A: Brimstone aired on Fox for 13 episodes between Oct. 1998 and Feb. 1999. In 1983, Zeke Stone (Peter Horton) arrested the man who raped his wife. He got off and Stone killed him in a rage. Stone was killed two months later. He went to hell and met the devil (John Glover). The devil said he was sent to hell because he killed the rapist and took pleasure in doing it, so it wasn't justice. Fifteen years later, 113 spirits escape from hell and the devil charges Stone with returning them to hell. If he can do it, before the spirits kill him, he will be returned to life and have a second chance at heaven. Episodes have aired on SyFy and Chiller, but not released on DVD officially.
Q: How does one go about protecting "ideas or concepts" as it relates to TV or movies.
Example: A while back it was reported that a network was thinking about creating a series based on the "Awkward Family Portraits" website. The writer of the column then asked how such a show would work. I then post a concept for the show - someone sees it, forwards it to their brother at ABC, yada yada yada, and it's a hit TV show.
There is no way for me to get "credit" for the concept because someone else can easily say they came up with the same idea, or that it was too generic a comment or it has been changed enough to be my concept exactly.
-Spanky Hamm
A: If you make a public comment in a public forum, whether that's an internet message board, a radio call in show or talking to a friend in a coffee shop, there's no way to
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