How to Lose Friends & Alienate People: Megan Fox Lowers Her Standards
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Most people know Megan Fox from her role in the 2007 summer blockbuster Transformers. Despite all the photo shoots and articles written about her in the last year, there are quite a few details about Ms. Fox’s life that may surprise even her most loyal fans. Here’s a list of facts that I have repeatedly added to Wikipedia, only to find them deleted moments later:
- For a three month period during 4th grade, Fox had absolutely no teeth. After losing her baby teeth the old fashioned way (driving a small dirt bike into a pickup truck’s lowered tailgate), Fox survived on a diet of consisting of Dr. Pepper/Slim Jim smoothies, melted ice cream sandwiches, and spaghetti sauce.
- During a rebellious phase in high school, Fox joined a band of jet ski pirates who terrorized the coastal waters surrounding her hometown. It was not until she decapitated a manatee while trying to make off with a waterproof boombox that she finally saw the error of her ways, saying, “I don’t know if it was the sound of cracking vertebrae or the sight of all that blood, but either way my pirating days were over when I sliced off that sea cow’s head.”
- She once grew a 1,167 lb. pumpkin.
- In her free time, Fox is a volunteer smoke jumper, logging over 40 jumps in seven Western states.
- After numerous failed attempts to control her dibilitating OCD using techniques offered by conventional psychology, Fox finally freed herself from her mental prison when she had small amethyst geodes surgically impanted in the soles of each of her feet.
Anyway, now that the truth is finally out there, let’s turn to Fox’s upcoming film How to Lose Friends & Alienate People. In the comedy, Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Run Fatboy Run) stars as a British celebrity journalist hired by editor Jeff Bridges to write for an upscale magazine in New York City. Once he makes his way to the US, Pegg proceeds to annoy and offend everyone he meets, including publicist Gillian Anderson and fellow writer Kirsten Dunst. Despite his awkward, ill-mannered ways, Pegg makes a connection with Fox, who steps out of her comfort zone to play a sexy starlet with questionable acting skills, and eventually finds a reluctant ally in Dunst.
Highlights of the How to Lose Friends & Alienate People trailer include: 1) Pegg trying to pick up a woman at a bar and Dunst pointing out that his business card is actually a library card. 2) Pegg interviewing an actor and asking him if the “hamster-thing” he plays in a movie is gay. 3) Pegg ordering a stripper for Danny Huston, his boss, only to have Huston’s wife and children walk in mid-strip. And, 4) Dunst asking Pegg which leg he’d previously hurt and then kicking him in said leg. My favorite part of the trailer comes when Pegg coughs up a mouthful of sandwich onto a woman’s back while riding in an elevator. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People opened October 3, 2008. Check out the How to Lose Friends & Alienate People trailer at Zuguide.com.
