Grown Up Gossip & Internet Villainy
10 – The latest part of Stu‘s contraption crusade. This time, featuring 100% more incomprehensible drunkards – YouTube
9 – A blog that combines all the fun of working in a call centre with none of the financial reward. Entertaining – Thanks For Your Call
8 – Terrence Howard is single. Also, Terrence Howard continues to dress like a tit – AmyGrindhouse
7 – The unbreakable phone: almost comically breakable – Geekologie
Terrence Howard is getting sued for a gigantic chunk of change by a music composer that says Howard assaulted him like a year ago or something.
The Iron Man star is totally getting sued by a guy that claims to have been on the knuckle end of an encounter with him last winter.
Terrence Howard is getting sued by music composer Andrew “Tex” Allen for five million dollars, which is ironic because that’s the exact amount Howard was gonna get for Iron Man II. Talk about coincidence.
Howard and Allen were both working on a Broadway play called Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which, as we understand it, revolves around a very poor family that makes a fortune selling feline bacon cooked in an ‘out of the box’ sort of way. We don’t have the recipe.
Iron Man 2 was going to be Terrence Howard’s big chance to shine, at least until he got the boot in favour of Don Cheadle.
Even now, nobody has any idea about why Terrence Howard was sacked from Iron Man 2 – not even Terrence Howard himself. In fact, Howard claims that he’s still in the dark about it all. All he knows is that he’s angry enough to wail about it to anyone close to him who happens to be holding a microphone.
Still though, Terrence Howard will get the last laugh here. After all, Iron Man 2 might be one of the biggest movies in history, but can Don Cheadle look himself in the eye and say that he’s making a rubbishy Karate Kid knock-off about street fighting that starts Channing Tatum? No. No he cannot. So in that respect, Terrence Howard wins. He loses the bits about being rich and famous and powerful, but he wins the Karate Kid bit.
Terrence Howard got a raw deal out of Iron Man – his sole job was to follow Robert Downey Jr around disapprovingly for a while.
In fact, an Oscar-nominated actor like Terrence Howard probably only agreed to star in Iron Man in the first place because his role would grow exponentially in Iron Man 2, where he’d become War Machine. Except it won’t now, because Terrence Howard isn’t going to be in Iron Man 2.
Thanks to rumoured financial disagreements, Howard is out of Iron Man 2, and he’ll be replaced by Don Cheadle – the man whose godawful British accent ruined Ocean’s 11 and its sequels. There are bound to be some cosmetic changes to the script because of this casting change – for example, to suit Cheadle’s voice, War Machine will now only be referred to as Woooaaar Mableedingchine Innit Guv’nor Chin Chin Toodlepip Mary Poppins.
