Zach Braff: Voice of our Generation

Also, I enjoyed Garden State. I always recommend that movie with the caveat: don't expect to have your world changed. Still, Garden State was better than I Heart Huckabees, which is probably the most comparable recent movie I can think of.

Oh, they were both lackadaisical finding yourself generational malaise twenty-something pre-middle-aged crisis movies.

One the one hand you had a rich boy who got off the meds and got over killing his mother. Existential moment: yelling into bottomless pit that was supposed to be a Jersey Mall.

On the other you had an uninteresting narcissistic environmentalist who went through therapy and didn’t get the girl or the recognition but got himself a little piece of mind. Existential moment: psychobabble from a couple of baby-boomers and a hate-fuck from a misanthrope.

Arrested Development changed my life.

HATE. Z. B.

Need to marry Jason Bateman. Now. Right now.

Check out the attached article on Zach Braff that appears in this Sunday's issue of PARADE.

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FOR RELEASE: 6:00 PM, ET, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2007


IS ZACH BRAFF DEPRESSED?
Scrubs Star Refuses to Play Hollywood Game

New York, January 11, 2007— “I think I suffer from some mild depression,” Scrubs actor and filmmaker Zach Braff tells PARADE magazine for this Sunday’s issue. “So to have millions of people go, ‘I watched your movie and related’ was the ultimate affirmation that I’m not a freak.” Braff was referring to his 2004 hit Garden State, in which he played a depressed young man who returns to his hometown after his mother’s death and finds that life really is worth living.

Admired for his comic flair and willingness to explore the tough questions of his generation, Braff, 31, stands out in Hollywood at a time when many of his contemporaries seem lost in excess. “I don’t care about image and all that nonsense,” he says. “I’m in sweat pants every day. I don’t play the game at all.” In fact, Braff says, “I don’t have any famous friends other than the guys I work with on Scrubs. I just go home to my family and friends. They’ve made adjustments because I’m well-known, but that’s not what they care about.”

As for his love life, Braff was most recently linked with singer/actress Mandy Moore. “We were together for a while, and that is the only true thing that has ever been written about my romantic life,” he jokes.

Braff says he wants a family of his own with a woman “who is funny and energetic and passionate about what she does.” In his new movie, Fast Track, he plays a loving husband with a new baby. Is his art imitating life? “At my age, those are the things you’re always talking about,” he says. “Have I done everything I should do? If I’m going to have kids, how will that change things? I like to think that all of the introspection leads to something really funny.”

Fast Track opens March 9 nationwide.

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But 30 rock last night...fucking Chris Parnell? "I've always said people should drink more animal blood...it straightens the spine!" and his line in the infomercial which fucking cracked me up but I can't remember it because it was followed up by Tracey Morgan saying "Hey Dr. Spaceman, is it true that Bread can kill the brain?" to which Parnell responded something like "Well I don't know because the powerful Bread lobby won't let me finish my studies..."

The episode where Dr. Cox injures his back shooting a hoop is beyond legendary.

his wife also.

(I did see 30 Rock last night, though, and it's just getting more and more ridiculously great -- the Maureen Dowd joke was the funniest thing I've seen on TV in ages.)

That was the moment I knew I was again witnessing greatness. And it was about 30 seconds into the episode.

That was funny, but I have to admit I loved this part more:

"Do you like Phil Collins?"
"...I have two ears and a heart, don't I?"

I didn't like the Tina Fey plot as much as the Tracy Morgan plot. I mean, it was fine, but the show is best when both plots are great. Like the one where Jack wants to act and Tracy can't read. That one is pure gold.

actually I'd like to see a movie with Zach Braff, Michael Cera, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Page, Joseph Grodin-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, and maybe Andy Samberg for comic relief. it'd like the 21st century's answer to the Rat Pack. soundtrack by Pomplamoose and the Apple iPad/Toyota Prius Players.

We get to imprison them on the film set, right? Some kind of Huis Clos retributive justice?

set it in vietnam. get landis to direct.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xmc8-MEIRw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xmc8-MEIRw

Saw Wish I Was Here. Means well, often unbearable--and I like Garden State, for the most part.

this just came and went eh

Not even sure if it got an opening here--I saw it a rep house. The losing-a-parent stuff is sometimes valid, but always manipulative--though Kate Hudson has a good scene alone with Mandy Patinkin. The opening scene, with the kids and the "swear jar," is unbelievably bad. There's a great, famous song buried somewhere in the background at some point...and I've already forgotten what it was.

Not that many will care, but Wish I Was Here is a grammatical atrocity.

showing this this weekend. know there's no nobility in trashing whiteboy "indie" movies no one's rly gonna see but every time i run the trailer it makes me wanna vom.