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Buzz Lines: What's Your Favorite Quote From Jerry Maguire?

BuzzSugar — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:30:00 PDT

With football season about to kick off, we got to thinking about one of our favorite sports movies: Jerry Maguire. Whether dealing with a hard-to-handle football client or navigating a burgeoning love, sports agent Jerry scores high points with addictively quotable lines. Check out a few of my favorites below and tackle this week's movie-quoting challenge by providing a few of your own in the comments!

"Show me the money!" - Rod
"Do you know that the human head weighs eight pounds?" - Ray
"You complete me." - Jerry

Happy Father's Day: The Buzz Team Reveals Their Dads' Favorite Movies!

BuzzSugar — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:00:39 PDT

When it comes to movies, the dads of Team Buzz are kind of fanatics - like father, like daughter! So in honor of Father's Day, we asked them for their top picks. It's a nice mix: some drama, a thriller or two, and plenty of comedy that always makes them laugh (no matter how many times they've watched 'em!). Truth be told, they're pretty good recommendations, so just chock this up to yet another good piece of advice, courtesy of old pops. Take a look at this list, and then tell me: what's your dad's favorite film?

Buzz Brainteaser

BuzzSugar — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:30:43 PDT

Welcome to Buzz Brainteaser, the trivia feature on BuzzSugar! Every weekday I'll test your knowledge about TV shows, music, and movies. If you enter in the correct answer, you win points!

In Jerry Maguire, for what football team does Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.) play?

The Results Are In: Recast Jerry Maguire

BuzzSugar — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:44:35 PDT

Every other Wednesday on BuzzSugar, I post a Recast challenge, where I ask you to choose new actors for a classic TV show or movie. The reader who submits the best cast wins a BuzzSugar t-shirt!

Great minds certainly think alike, as was proven by this week's recast challenge for Jerry Maguire. Many people agreed that the best person to play Rod Tidwell would be Donald Faison (and, while Faison's an excellent choice, I also liked WhiplashGirlchild and jlgb4008's suggestion of Weeds' Romany Malco).

On the other hand, ideas for who should play Jerry Maguire himself were all over the place, from Ryan Reynolds (a popular suggestion) to Christian Bale (ohmondieu) to Jason Dohring (sarahrah).

The ideas for the part of little Ray Boyd were probably the most entertaining, with some of you not attempting to replace the "perfect" Jonathan Lipnicki and many others suggesting the children of high-profile celebrities, like Cruz Beckham. Finally, I really loved Grantz's idea of Emily Blunt in the role of Dorothy Boyd. But I had to choose just one list from the bunch, and this week I went with mishale1's recast list!

To see who mishale1 picked, along with a new cast photo,

mishale1's cast:
Jerry Maguire - Jerry OConnell
Dorothy Boyd - Kate Hudson
Ray Boyd - Maddox Jolie Pitt
Rod - Donald Faison

Rewind: This Week's Buzz

BuzzSugar — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:00:00 PDT

If you missed Amy Poehler's impression of Project Runway's Christian on SNL I highly recommend kicking your weekend off with this clip.
ER has been around since 1994 and might be back for yet another season - and they're even courting older stars to return. The '90s are hot right now as the big news out of the CW is that they're looking at a spin-off of Beverly Hills 90210. Any characters from that hit show you'd like to see again?
Check out the trailers for two cool action thriller trailers out right now: The Incredible Hulk starring Edward Norton and Righteous Kill starring super acting duo Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino. Norton also made news this week with talk about developing an Obama documentary.
There was a lot of scary movie remake news this week that struck me as mostly odd, involving more Michael Bay projects and tomatoes that kill.
What do you think of the new Breeders song? And did you hear? You'll be able to get the new REM album on Facebook!
Some things don't need a part two - I'm looking at you, Lost Boys 2. However, somethings should be recast (just for fun!). What actors do you think could fill the big shoes of the characters in Jerry Maguire?
Whether or not you thought letting Idol contestants sing the Beatles was blasphemous, America loved it, and next week the top 11 will be singing more from that songbook. Let's hope Kristy Lee Cook leaves the fiddles out this time.

Photo of Christian courtesy of Bravo

Recast Jerry Maguire and Win a Prize!

BuzzSugar — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:29:49 PDT

Every other Wednesday on BuzzSugar, I post a Recast challenge, where I ask you to choose new actors for a classic TV show or movie. The reader who submits the best cast wins a BuzzSugar t-shirt!

For this recast challenge, let's take a look at director Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire, which earned Cuba Gooding Jr. an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and launched Renée Zellweger into stardom.

If you could cast this movie with new actors, who do you think would convey the magnetism of sports agent Jerry Maguire? Who else besides Cuba could pull off the "show me the money" sequence, and what other actress could endearingly utter, "You had me at hello"?

Finally, Jonathan Lipnicki ran away with every scene he was in as Dorothy's son Ray Boyd. Is there a little guy out there you think would be adorable in that part as well?

Leave your entry in the comment section below, and I'll pick one winner to feature Tuesday, March 18, complete with a "new" cast photo.

To see a list of characters to recast and a photo of the BuzzSugar t-shirt,

Characters to recast:
Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise)
Dorthy Boyd (Renée Zellweger)
Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.)
Ray Boyd (Jonathan Lipnicki)

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Totally Geeky or Geek Chic? Gadgets In Jerry Maguire

GeekSugar — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:00:47 PST

The only thing that makes this 1996 Oscar nominated flick out-dated is the gadgets. Check out this pic of Jerry Maguire, played by Tom Cruise in the notorious show me the money scene with his three-fold flip cell with giant antenna. His main squeeze Dorothy Boyd, played by Renee Zellweger is shown here with her ghetto cordless phone and super thick laptop. Did these gadgets put this movie ahead of its time or do they just make the actors look geeky?

Movie Night: Football Films

BuzzSugar — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:31:07 PST

The Super Bowl is this Sunday, so let's get the couch warmed up with a Movie Night. This week's theme: football movies. These three will make for good date-night viewing, since they have a little bit of something for everyone (assuming one of you is a football fan). I could make some lame sports/love pun here - something involving touchdowns, perhaps - but "My Boys" has put me off those forever. So just grab some beer and buffalo wings and enjoy the films.

Any Given Sunday
Though it leans a little heavy on the football-as-war metaphors, Oliver Stone's over-the-top football flick is better than you might think, with chaotic cinematography, a killer hip-hop soundtrack, and a sinister normalcy holding it all together. Here, we get the first hints that Jamie Foxx can act, as he plays the young hotshot to Dennis Quaid's aging quarterback on the fictional Miami Sharks pro squad. There are plenty of quiet acting gems in the big ensemble cast, including Matthew Modine as the conflicted team doctor. Offering surprising moments of depth for what, at times, feels like a music video, Any Given Sunday will rally football fans and non-fans alike.

To see the other two,

Jerry Maguire
Even if you haven't seen this movie, you can probably quote it, since Jerry Maguire birthed two well-known one-liners: "Show me the money!" and "You. Complete. Me." Egomaniac Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is a sports agent who is all about the money but magically grows a conscience when he loses his job and falls for the sweet single mom Dorothy Boyd (Renee Zellweger). Cuba Gooding Jr. is in top form as Jerry's loyal client Rod Tidwell, who sticks by Jerry even when his career is in turmoil.

Friday Night Lights
These athletes are far from the Super Bowl, but their fans are just as rabid. Before it was an outstanding TV show, Friday Night Lights was an outstanding nonfiction book following the Permian Panthers high-school football team in Odessa, TX. This nicely done film adaptation ably captures the players' personal and sports-related struggles as they carry the optimism of a hopeless town on their shoulders. A subdued and wise Billy Bob Thornton stars as coach, but the movie is most notable for its ability to make us care deeply about each of the players despite not really knowing any of them - kind of like a real football team.

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Cameron Crowe on How His Love of Music and Matt Damon Inspired His New Movie

Lindsay Miller — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:37:35 PST

Cameron Crowe is the director behind memorable movies from Almost Famous to Jerry Maguire, but this holiday season, he took on a new challenge with the family-friendly We Bought a Zoo. We caught up with Cameron at the recent junket for the movie in NYC, where we talked about why he felt it was time to put out a feel-good film, the unique and musical method he used to inspire performances from his cast, and why leading man Matt Damon made the movie happen. Check out our interview with Cameron and catch We Bought a Zoo in theaters this weekend!

Tom Has Katie and a Career's Worth of Costars Showing Support as He Picks Up Humanitarian Honor

Allie Merriam — Fri, 06 May 2011 06:55:38 PDT

Katie Holmes and Connor Cruise were by Tom Cruise's side last night as the actor picked up an award from the Wiesenthal Center at the Four Seasons Hotel in LA. Tom earned the Jewish human rights organization's humanitarian honor, and the distinction was earned due to his longtime support of their Museum of Tolerance in addition to work bringing Nazi atrocities to light. He was especially able to reveal WWII abuses in the film Valkyrie, playing a German soldier who attempted to assassinate Hitler. Tom had friends and business partners from movie projects of the past, present, and future on hand to wish him well. His old Jerry Maguire buddy, Cuba Gooding, Jr., turned out, along with his Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol friends like Jeremy Renner, who's actually taking over the MI franchise, and Paula Patton. J.J. Abrams, who wrote the script for the latest installment of the action series, was on hand to emcee the proceedings. Even Malin Akerman, who nabbed the lead in Tom's new film Rock of Ages, came out to show love for the superstar. Malin and Tom's other costar, Russell Brand, was off jet-skiing in Miami, though, and couldn't make it. Tom was touched about the prize and made a short speech from the stage. Tom Cruise said of his humanitarian award, "It's a tremendous honor. For me and my family this is really a very special evening and I look at what Simon Wiesenthal accomplished with his life, what this museum represents . . . Our challenge, ladies and gentlemen, is to make sure that we do all in our power to see to it that there will be no more Auschwitz Birkenaus, no more Rwandas, no more Darfurs on our planet. That our children and their children may be free to live in a world where men and women are judged by their accomplishments and deeds rather than by their race or religion."