Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Don Johnson To Play Porn Director



Don Johnson has always been drawn, almost magnetically, to life's dark material. He played Metro-Dade undercover Police detective Sonny Crockett for five seasons in Michal Mann's Miami Vice. Don Johnson and his first wife Melanie Griffith started dating when he was 22 and she was 14. He once suggested to legendary control freak Barbara Streisand that they "embark on a non-monogamous open marriage (she said no)." And, worst of all, he recorded the obnoxiously earnest "Heartbeat." In keeping with those traditions of mining the depths of the human experience, Johnson stars next in a film which features Johnson. From TheHollywoodReporter:

"Don Johnson continues his comedy streak with a turn as a mustachioed porn director in 'Born to Be a Star,' the Adam Sandler and Jack Giarraputo-produced pic being released by Sony.

"Nick Swardson is starring as a small-town nerd who learns his quiet and demure parents were famous porn stars in the 1970s. This motivates him to leave northern Iowa for Hollywood, hoping to follow in their footsteps and fulfill his destiny as the biggest adult-film star in the world.

"Johnson plays a down-on-his-luck director who discovers Swardson and gives him a shot.

"The cast also includes Christina Ricci as Swardson's innocent girlfriend and Stephen Dorff as adult film star Dick Shadow, as well as Edward Herrmann and Tyler Spindel."


Finally, we cannot fail to note that Don Johnson dated the woman -- Jodi O'Keefe -- who played his daughter on the hit show "Nash Bridges." The mathematical question that that union conjured was: How many times does 59 go into 30?

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