Ashley “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” Judd, chose to conveniently have her potentially lethal attack of appendicitis in a hospital. Shooting forthcoming film Helen (directed by Sandra Nettleback, who was dialogue coach on 1985’s Seduction: The Cruel Woman), she fell ill at the Ridge Meadows Hospital. Upon collapsing, she was put on a stretcher and taken to a nearby operating room. The actress claiming the incident as “a big stroke of luck” seems to be the equivalent in ‘lucky’ to getting run over by an ambulance. Gratuitous Snipe: the wise 39-year old once turned down a role in Kuffs due to the nude scenes, claiming that “"My mother worked too hard for me to take my clothes off in my first movie.” She would subsequently bare herself in Bug, Normal Life, Eye of the Beholder and Norma Jean and Marilyn.

Movie #3464
Southland Tales
Richard Kelly, 2006-7, USA

I know Mitch made fun of this prior to its release, but I chose – to my eternal regret – to ignore his warnings. Southland Tales is bad. And long. And really bad. The unintelligibly written and inexplicably long (2 hrs 25 mins) post-apocalyptic exercise in patting-your-penis-on-the-back showcases the worst ensemble cast ever assembled. And then it proceeds to cast them as inappropriately as possible. I salute Richard Kelly…

Justin Timberlake as a scarred war veteran who lip-synchs to The Killers
Kevin Smith as a big fat ball of prosthetics posing as a computer geek
Wallace Shawn in drag
Mad TV’s Will Sasso as a bloke named Fortunio Balducci
Mandy Moore as a spoilt rich girl
Jon Lovitz as a hard-as-nails killer cop
Christopher Lambert, in a movie. Again.
2 x Sean William Scott, as identical twins
Sarah Michelle Gellar as a porn star
SNL’s Amy Poehler and Cheri Oteri as neo-Marxists
And The Rock as the leading man. Who helps save the world.