Now that's an Odd Couple

[Chmee]

Looking forward to the 'Get Shorty' sequel 'Be Cool' ... found this story about a scene that included Phil Jackson, but his part got cut because he isn't coach of the Lakers now and it would 'date' the scene:

The scene from this sequel to "Get Shorty" features hip mobster-turned-movie-producer-turned-record-mogul Chili Palmer (John Travolta) taking Edie Athens (Uma Thurman) to a Laker game so they can meet Aerosmith's Steven Tyler. Palmer uses his friendship with Phil Jackson to get the tickets.

Movie producer Martin Weir (Danny DeVito) is also at the game, with Anna Nicole Smith as his date. After the game, in a scene shot well after the final buzzer and with actors wearing Laker uniforms, Weir tries to impress everyone by introducing Palmer to Jackson as he walks back to the locker room, only to discover they already knew each other. When Palmer thanks Jackson for the tickets, Jackson asks if the seat location was all right.

"You have legends and icons all within the same scene," Gray said. "All within the same shot. In the Staples Center. It doesn't get any better than that."

They filmed during the Lakers' game against the Sacramento Kings last Feb. 26. The Lakers lost that night, but "in our movie they won," Gray said.

The filmmakers had to get permission from the teams, the arena and the NBA. All moving shots of the actors — Palmer and Athens walk through the stands and around the court to get to Tyler's seat — were done during timeouts.

"There were a lot of rules we had to adhere to," Gray said. "To shoot a movie during a live game, to turn the Staples Center into a sound stage for a movie was difficult. We're so used to having control of the sound and the people. It was a challenge, obviously."

Gray watched it all from one of the luxury suites that was converted into a control room, where he could watch feeds from six cameras.

One successful, one-chance-only shot came up in the fourth quarter, when DeVito and Smith popped up on the scoreboard's giant screen in the popular "Kiss Me Cam" segment and she smothered him in lipstick.

"Anna Nicole Smith almost swallowed Danny DeVito," Gray said.

"He could barely breath. She really committed. That's what a director likes, when a person commits to the moment. She committed to the moment. That was worth the price of admission. I definitely put it in the movie."

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Anna Nicole and Danny DeVito ..... imagine the children .....