Summary

MOVIE REVIEWER SARA VOORHEES TALKS WITH CHRIS ROCK ABOUT HIS NEW MOVIE

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 200407
Story Slug CHRIS ROCK INTERVIEW ON MOVIE “DOWN TO EARTH”
Location Los Angeles, California
Format pkg
Date 2/20/2001
Archive Time 51:49
TRT 1:57
Supers Down To Earth, Paramount Pictures Rated PG13 Lethal Weapon, Warner Brothers Rated R Chris Rock, Actor Sara Voorhees reporting Pkg trt - 1:54
Video Description (MOVIE CLIPS ARE NOT LICENSABLE) MOVIE CLIPS, INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS ROCK, VOORHEES CUTAWAY
Description MOVIE REVIEWER SARA VOORHEES TALKS WITH CHRIS ROCK ABOUT HIS NEW MOVIE
Script CHRIS ROCK HAS DIED AND GONE TO HEAVEN. SARA VOORHEES JOINS ROCK TO TALK ABOUT HIS NEW MOVIE DOWN TO EARTH. (TAKE PKG SCRIPT) NATAUDIO: ROCK DOING STANDUP CHRIS ROCK'S TIME HAS COME OR HAS IT? IN DOWN TO EARTH ROCK IS AN AMATEUR COMEDIAN WHO DIES UNEXPECTEDY, AND WHEN HE GETS TO HEAVEN HE DISCOVERS HIS DEATH IS A MISTAKE. A HEAVENLY AGENT PUTS HIM BACK ON EARTH IN THE BODY OF A RICH, WHITE, MANHATTAN BUSINESSMAN NATAUDIO: LOOKING AT DEAD WHITE BODY IF THIS SOUNDS LIKE HEAVEN CAN WAIT TO YOU, YOU'RE RIGHT ON. ROCK GOT THE IDEA FOR DOWN TO EARTH FROM A MEETING WITH WARREN BEATTY. (SOT ROCKSOT: I'd only seen Bugsy and Dick Tracy and Ishtar. and I saw heaven Can Wait and i thought this could be such a good comedy!) SOME WOULD SAY HEAVEN CAN WAIT WAS ALREADY A GOOD COMEDY, BUT ROCK'S PARTICULAR BRAND OF COMEDY MAKES IT HIS. HE SAYS THE FUNNY STUFF WAS THE EASY PART. (SOT ROCK: The challenging stuff was the date stuff, with Regina getting hot dog. Boardroom stuff I can do that) NATVIDEO: LEATHAL WEAPON 4 ROCK HAS MADE A NAME FOR HIMSELF IN SHOOT-EM-UP ACTION MOVIES LIKE "LETHAL WEAPON 4," BUT HE WAS HAPPY, THIS TIME, TO PUT HIS GUNS DOWN. (SOT ROCK: if I have to work for 3 1/2 months I'd rather be around some girls than sweaty guys AUDIO: Is Pac in there? Yo, tell Pac I'm here. I'm SARA VOORHEES REPORTING RECAP
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