“If DreamWorks is Walmart, we are over here knitting sweaters.” —Trey Parker on Important Studios, he and Matt Stone’s new production company, a business that, I suspect, will put out some pretty great stuff or at the very least some pretty interesting and unlike-usual-Hollywood-bullshit stuff, and this stuff will very, very likely include a Book of Mormon movie, which, as commenter Graham noted in a recent email to me, should obviously star Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill

With honor and distinction, Erik Henriksen served as the executive editor of the Portland Mercury from 2004 to 2020. He can now be found at henriksenactual.com.