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The long-awaited conclusion to Kevin Smith's "New Jersey Trilogy" delivered everything that it should have, and that's a good thing, because with the success of Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Dogma, expectations for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back were very high.

Enjoying a superhero comic penned by Kevin Smith these days requires one to manage his or her expectations.

Since "An Evening with Kevin Smith" became a traveling show several years ago, a label for what the "Clerks" director provides as entertainment has been elusive.

So it's the mid '90s. I'm in film school. It's a heady time. I'm all hopped up on Kieslowski and Bergman, preaching the virtues of the Decalogue and the five-hour version of Fanny and Alexander and stuff like that.

Vampire movies can be hit or miss with may people. Either the vamp-action is not enough, or the story is ridiculous.

The whole "connect with fans" and give them a "reason to buy" mantra fits with pretty much any kind of content creation -- and absolutely works in the movie industry.

Sex was an endless topic of conversation for the characters in director Kevin Smith's 1994 breakthrough hit "Clerks," but in his new movie "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," sex is more than talked about, it's on display.

ABSTRACT: Talk story about Kevin Smith's standup show. Kevin Smith, the writer-director of "Clerks" and "Dogma", and the author of a new book called "Shootin' the Sh*t with Kevin Smith", has a sideline in standup.

Congratulations! We made it through Week One of fall, but we aren't done planing your weekend.

Artvoice's weekly round-up of events to watch out for the week, including our editor's pick: The Artvoice B.O.O.M! First Round Quarter Final showdown at Nietzsche's on Friday night.

Submitted by modernesquire on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 2:25pm. House Minority Leader John Boehner recently voted against our troops by voting against the defense appropriation bill.A Boehner voted against it because the bill had a rider that would add membership in the military, disability, and sexual orientation to existing federal hate crime laws that ...

The video for Weezer 's new single " I Want You To" will be premiering soon, and no matter what was happening with Weezer's music, they have always been a top-shelf video band.

Jamie Norris could be the Internet's next billion-dollar entrepreneur. His creation, RockedAgain.com, takes the best of iTunes, MySpace and Ticketmaster -- and offers it on one site.

Kevin Smith emerged in the first half of the '90s and became a legend. With films like Clerks , Mallrats and Chasing Amy -- all of which intertwined each others' subplots and characters -- Smith became film's grunge-era equivalent of Kurt Cobain.

In Section: NY comPRESSed >> Posted In: Legal , Film And TV , Crime And Punishment , Entertainment "I think it may have something to do with the joint I smoked" Madonna said on Late Night with David Letterman , when confronted about her behavior from a prior interview and now coming out about smoking pot is trendy.

HOME > NEWS / SHOWBIZ > SHOWBIZ > Smith's new success is down to Rogen's weed diet SHOWBIZ SMITH'S NEW SUCCESS IS DOWN TO ROGEN'S WEED DIET Filmmaker KEVIN SMITH has credited actor SETH ROGEN - and a newfound love of marijuana - with pulling him out of a creative downturn.

Movie producer Kevin Smith has revealed that he has overcome a creative slump - by smoking pot.

The king of stoner moviemakers, Kevin Smith, never really smoked much marijuana until Seth Rogen talked him into it last summer, he says.

A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: Amazon Settles Orwell Suit; Meet Palin's Co-Author; Booker Shortlist Sales Double; Pooh's New Lady Friend; Kevin Smith, Author; Apple's E-Book Plans "Unlikely". Amazon Settles Orwell Suit According to AFP, Amazon has settled the lawsuit with a student whose notes were deleted from his ...

I remember reading an interview with Kevin Smith back in 1997 in which the trench-coat-wearing writer/director/Miramax poster boy admitted that his third film, Chasing Amy , which was getting a lot of positive critical attention at the time, was actually intended to be his second.