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Great Moments In Cinematic Candor

By The New Republic

December 1, 2008

Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. on the hero-stuffed Avengers movie, currently slated for 2011:

[I]f we don't get it right, it's really going to suck.

Yes, it probably is. Downey also shares this reminiscence:

I remember going to the MTV Video Music Awards with Anthony Michael Hall and David Lee Roth, driving down Fifth Avenue in a convertible Studebaker. David was wearing white gloves and tails. I was like, "Dude, is it ever going to get more modern than this?" 

How time passes.

--Christopher Orr

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