Archives for 2009

Since it’s kind of a slow news day today, and this story does have a Montepulciano filming connection, we thought people might be interested in what comes to our inbox on a regular basis. We get hundreds of emails a day on all sorts of things. A lot of the emails say, “I know you’ll never read this, but…” We read everything, but due to time and the fact that we have day jobs (not to mention we are tired of answering the Bella’s period question), we can’t always answer everything.

Over the past few months we’ve had some interesting offers for stuff that we don’t want to post or pursue for one reason or the other (like people walking their dog in their underwear). We usually just ignore it. However the other day, after the mountain of Montepulciano emails that came in, one just took the cake. We don’t quite have a wall of shame, like what Mugglenet has ( awesome site for Potter fans, check them out) but, if we had one this would be on it.

Generally speaking we don’t even respond to emails like this, but in this case we couldn’t resist. It was a long day, we were tired, and pretty much slap happy. As a lead in, a couple of months ago there was a hoax that lasted about 24 hours, which admittedly we fell for, that Brenna Lee Roth, daughter of singer David Lee, was going to be in New Moon. At the time there were great hoax photos of the script, quotes with Chris Weitz, the works.  Anyway, we figured as pranks go well executed and we gave kudos to the group that got us. We should also clarify we don’t know if it was officially Brenna Lee Roth who duped us, fans of hers, or what. So, imagine our surprise when we get this on May 28th, at what would have been roughly 9:00pm in Italy.

Supposed email from driver:

“I know for a fact that Brenna Roth is in Italy right now…with brand new black hair! She checked into the de la votru hotel last night, and begins shooting tomorrow! I am working on set as a driver. Please keep my name confidential on this story and I promise to send you photos next week.”

Our response:

“Brand new black hair, huh? Did the old hair wear out?  Let me guess, she’s playing the third cloaked figure to the right. I’m sure we’ll be able to pick her out in the sea of 1,000 no problem.

Oh wait, you mean the UBER, SUPER SEKRET CAMEO as Renetta who appears in all future films. She’s so secret that Summit has her name under wraps, because she’s an A-list star surprise that all fans will be dying to know about. OMG! SQUUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! We can’t wait for the update.

Nice try, don’t quit your day job.”

We didn’t have too much remorse getting snarky with a driver looking to sell his client down the river. Hopefully you all got as good of a laugh as we did, because even if it were true, we certainly weren’t taking clandestine photos from a set driver.