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July 10th, 2008

Helmer Fudd?

Posted by: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly Editor
Tags: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, ,

Jack Black parts ways with “Man-Witch”

jack220.jpgSources said that the decision this week to part ways may have originated from Black’s camp, which had questions about Phillips’ commitment to direct the picture before “Hangover,” another comedy said to be close to the helmer’s heart.

Your review uses a word I have never heard or cannot find looking in dictionaries on the web anywhere. What the hell is a helmer?

Jim K.

This was a Hollywood Reporter story issued with a Reuters news product. A helmer is a director. We normally try to keep insider words like that out of our stories: GBU Editor

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