Posted by Adam Kuban, June 11, 2008 at 11:54 AM
Everyone's been reporting this shit about Robert Downey Jr. crediting Burger King with his drug-addiction turnaround. I actually saw this story last week, but everyone was crediting British film magazine Empire as a source. Oddly enough, no one was linking to the story his quotes were supposedly from. Rather than pass on spurious info to you, I took a pass on mentioning it here. Here's the quote, attributed Empire, as reported by OK! magazine (got that?):
"I have to thank Burger King," he told the magazine. "It was such a disgusting burger I ordered.
"I had that, and this big soda, and I thought something really bad was going to happen."
Downey Jr. says he went and threw all his drugs into the ocean right there and then.
The actor revealed that there is a nod to that moment in his latest movie, Iron Man, when his character asks for a Burger King cheeseburger when he is released by kidnappers.
Well, leave it to Access Hollywood to do some real investigative journalism. The show talked to Downey Jr.'s publicist:
The actor’s rep told Access Hollywood, the savory story was “not as simplified as described, but true enough.”
Related: Iron Man's Tony Stark Is a Genius, But Not When It Comes to Burgers
Posted by Adam Kuban, May 27, 2008 at 2:55 PM
Yeah, I know I'm a couple weeks late to the Iron Man train here. So sue me. I've been working on other projects, so I just got around to seeing this kick-ass flick over the weekend.
Anyway, as a lot of you emailed me about, billionaire weapons magnate Tony Stark, after three months in evil-doer captivity, asks for a cheeseburger as his first meal back in the good ol' U.S. of A. And where does his driver grab it from?
Burger King.
Is Tony Starck a mechanical genius? Yes.
Is he a burger genius? No.
With so many great burgers to choose from in the L.A. area, I'm outraged that he'd pick a lame chain burger. But of course Father's Office, the Apple Pan, Irv's, In-N-Out, and all the other great places in the area don't have the movie tie-in bucks to throw around.
Matt Selman at Time magazine's Nerd World blog sums it up better than I can with this great Iron Man "deleted" scene.
And Obadiah Stane ain't too savvy with New York pizza, either.
Posted by Adam Kuban, January 30, 2008 at 4:45 PM
If you've seen Juno, then you know this phone. I haven't seen the movie, but you all keep sending me links to this phone that I figured I'd blog it.
I guess this is the phone she talks to her OB-GYN on. Who knows.
It's $16 from Uxcell.com.
