• Kevin made a quick appearance on the other other night’s NHL Awards show. Check out the video above!

• Entertainment Weekly’s Popwatch ran THIS glowing review of Kevin’s Carnegie Hall appearance.

• We mentioned this a while back, but here’s CTV’s official premiere announcement for their upcoming Degrassi TV movie featuring Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes:

  PARADISE CITY: DEGRASSI GOES HOLLYWOOD (Premiere)

  * Sunday, August 30 at 8 p.m. ET

  In the first ever DEGRASSI: THE NEXT GENERATION movie, the Degrassi students venture to L.A. via school bus with hopes to score parts in Mewesical High, a musical directed by Jason Mewes (Clerks) under the mentorship of Kevin Smith (Clerks, Dogma). Paige (Lauren Collins), personal assistant to THE SHORES reality television star Hailey Montel (Mary Ashton), understands that in life you work from the ground up, but when Hollywood hands Paige a shortcut to fame and fortune, she jumps at the opportunity and takes Marco (Adamo Ruggiero) and Ellie (Stacey Farber) along for the ride. Back in Toronto, Manny (Cassie Steele) has immersed herself in her university theatre program and is committed to becoming an “actor of substance.” The star of Jay and Silent Bob Go Canadian, Eh?, Manny blows an opportunity to star in Mewes’ feature and then heads on a road trip to L.A. to win the role and realize her dream.

• In possibly the latest movie review ever, the New Orleans Examiner posted their review of JERSEY GIRL.

You can grab SModcast NOW, exclusively at Quick Stop Entertainment. This monster cast runs over 2 hours and 10 minutes long! So, if you’re grabbing the MP3, give it some time to download to your computer.

SModcast 88: 11 Short of 99, The Number of the Great One, Wayne Gretzky, Son of Walter and Phyllis from Brantford, Ontario, Where This Was Recorded Live, Onstage at the Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts, June 6, 2009, eh? -

In which our heroes’ adventure is shrouded in mystery.

Enjoy, and our thanks to Kevin, Scott, and the entire crew on hand for this amazing event.

75. “What’s a nubian?” — Chasing Amy

48. “All every woman really wants, be it mother, senator, nun, is some serious deep-dickin’.” — Chasing Amy

41. “Beautiful, naked, big-titted women just don’t fall out of the sky, you know.” — Dogma

Today’s 10th segement, “Stuff from the Cutting Room Floor”, is just that – Outtakes and moments that just didn’t fit into the standard interview structure, presented here just as a nice bookend to the series. If you’ve missed some previous segments, or just want to enjoy them all over again, we’re happy to present an ordered master index of the full interview clips straight ahead.

Part 1 : Selling Out And Salty Language
Part 2 : Writing & Filmmaking
Part 3 : Change, Death, Legacy
Part 4 : The Dark Side Of The Internet
Part 5 : The Curse Of Chasing Amy
Part 6 : Bright Side of The Internet
Part 7 : Talking To People He Wrote
Part 8 : Gretzky, Gratitude & God
Part 9 : Risking His Life & Starting A New One
Part 10 : Stuff From The Cutting Room Floor

Enjoy, and thanks to both of you gentlemen for an entertaining, insightful piece of video for the ages.

“This seems to be a very unique group for this type of film, and with Smith at the helm, one thing is for certain: there will be plenty of laughs. Morgan is a tried and true comedic presence on screen, and when looking at his older works, Willis too knows how to handle comedy. It’s hard to see how this trio could work together and not put together a great film.”

SModcast 87: Tapoo – In which a simple concept slips from our heroes’ grasps.

It’s a free MP3 download, folks. Podcasters should see it showing in iTunes later in the week, as always. We’re streaming this baby down right now, grab a copy and listen along with us. With the new film underway, the schedule for SModcast may wind up being erratic, though Smith & Mosier WILL present the first-ever LIVE SModcast during this weekend’s street hockey tourny in Brantford, Ontario. Rumor has it that SMod will not be released online, so you gotta be there in person to see it. The weather’s great. Get on up to Ontario for some hockey and SModcsat fun this weekend.

“It’s been roughly two years since Mr. Kevin (”the Clerks. guy”) Smith and his other hetero life-mate (and producing partner), Mr. Scott Mosier, launched their own podcast series, entitled SModcast. Since then they’ve posted seventy-six pieces of what I can only describe as some of the most absurd, silly, raunchy, and down-right brilliantly funny audio bliss ever! And since that time I’ve been a devout listener, always waiting patiently each week for their next new posting — sometimes even having to wait up until a month or so for a new one to show up (I dare not complain, Smith’s a busy man).

For those of you unfamiliar with SModcast, the premise is as follows. Each week Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier find time amongst themselves to sit down and, well, shoot the shit for lack of a better term. In the beginning each show lasted roughly fifty-two minutes, plus or minus, with only a few notable exceptions. Once the series began to reach double digits, however, the show began to change up. SModcast was created partially as an attempt by Smith for he and Mosier to get together each week and catch up on things, but as the show progressed it became apparent that such a notion wasn’t always feasible. And so with it’s thirteenth episode, “SFodcast (or SWodcast),” SModcast found itself with an absent Scott Mosier and special guest, sitting in, Walt Flanagan (”Fanboy,” to the fanboys), one of Smith’s best friends from his youth. And while there is not, and probably never will be, a SModcast without Smith himself, we found that from time to time there will be one without Mosier, at which time we will be treated to a special guest…”

Read the whole article over at Lockergnome.

“…These filmmakers such as Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino and M. Night Shyamalan proved that you didn’t need computers or big bangs to be able to reach the audience. These filmmakers brought a real renaissance to independent film and set up a nice dichotomy in the decade between the decadence of special effects-driven event movies and personal talkies of smaller films.”

View each video direct from the NHL website by clicking the links below:

Segment One – Kevin visits the Pregame Show (3:48)

Segment Two – A Visit to Kevin’s Suite for Game 7 (3:10)

We’d also like to take this moment to promote the NHL and the wonderful game of ice hockey — Pass the word on and check out some playoff games, or at least the Stanley Cup finals this year. And congrats to our local hometown Hershey Bears here in PA, who are once again going to the Calder Cup finals this year. Go Bears!

Silent Bob in “Clerks,” et. al.

Has any character since the dawn of sound film appeared in more movies and said less than Silent Bob? The larger, quieter half of Kevin Smith’s non-dynamic duo appeared in six of the director’s films, and also popped up in cameos in Wes Craven’s “Scream 3″ and Kyle Newman’s “Fanboys.” Over 15 years, Silent Bob’s appearances have codified into a recognizable pattern: the character stands by wordlessly for most of the movie while his drug dealer partner Jay (Jason Mewes) spouts one profanity after another, until the narrative presents him an opportunity to chime in with a single bit of practical advice. And the character hasn’t simply endured; he’s proved surprisingly malleable. In “Clerks,” Smith affects a believably low-life-ian scowl, but by “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back,” he’s mugging and gesticulating like a well-trained mime. He’s proven adaptable to just about any style of film Smith can write: in “Mallrats,” he’s an engineering genius with a cartoonish, Batman-style utility belt; in the next movie, “Chasing Amy,” he delivers a surprisingly mature monologue about the pitfalls of male insecurity. Each View Askew movie announced where Jay and Bob would pop up next, but the last one, 2006’s “Clerks II,” warned that “for now, they’re taking it easy.” Given how durable the characters have been thus far, a return seems inevitable, if not imminent.

Kevin has continually stated that it’s highly unlikely that the character will return in live action again, but you just never know — We wouldn’t put them past another possible cameo somewhere down the line.

For the people who had property damaged during the flood there’s a lot of talk of what was lost.

Furniture. Carpet. Televisions. Entire houses. Bootleg videos of “BJ and the Bear.”

Whatever the flood stole from you – your ambivalence toward the Red River – there’s something to be gained from this ordeal; a career as a semi-famous filmmaker who just might be the voice of a generation.

Lost in the discussion about his movies is the fact that auteur Kevin Smith started his career because of a flood.

The guy who made low-budget film chic with his 1994 movie “Clerks” paid for part of that movie’s production expenses with FEMA money that was given to him after a flood destroyed some of his well-worn Volkswagen vehicles.

Smith used that money, the ransom from selling some comic books and credit cards to finance “Clerks,” the dialogue-heavy movie about lazy convenience store employees that became a benchmark of ’90s culture.

Since then, Smith has made several feature films, become a slacker icon and, at least to me, proved he – not Kurt Cobain – was the voice of the generation that came of age in the ’90s.

Would Smith have attained that stature without a flood and some FEMA cash? Probably. But with basements that still smell like the Red River puked in them, it’s more fun to think that the flood made the man.

Moral of the story: Grab that FEMA money and make a movie. Or write a book. Or design a video game. Or get the stink out of your basement.