Posted by Wonder Girl at pppa66-resalecovina1-4r7276.saturn.bbn.com on June 02, 2000 at 16:42:11:
The headline is "Seinfeld Snubs Kevin Smith."
Jerry Seinfeld usually jumps at the chance to do comedy -- except when the joke's on him. The comic recently turned down a cameo as himself in director Kevin Smith's new animated series, 'Clerks', based on his 1994 movie about a suburban convenience store, Smith tells Hot Stuff. In a sketch about celebrity encounters, Seinfeld (whose voice was eventually done by...Gilbert Gottfried) walks into the store, starts doing one of his "Did you ever wonder?" routines and gets rudely interrupted by...Dante and Randal. Similar ribbing didn't intimidate Gwyneth Paltrow, who plays herself pleading to rent a video after Randal tells her they have no record of her. "But I have a membership -- Paltrow, Gwyneth," the Academy Award-winning actress says in the sketch. Others who take hits are Matt Damon, who gets a drink tossed at him and is nearly run over by a car, and Ben Affleck, who gets ridiculed in the credits for starring in the flop "Reindeer Games."
Eh, Seinfeld ain't funny anyway.
Jen