The Dish: Coen son was Damon's ab double?

Moviegoers who stuck around for the "True Grit" credits might have done a double take at this one.

January 8, 2011 at 9:05PM
George Clooney will star in "The Descendants," directed by Alexander Payne.
George Clooney will star in "The Descendants," directed by Alexander Payne. (Associated Press/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Credit card Moviegoers who stuck around for the "True Grit" credits might have done a double take at this one: Matt Damon's "abs double" was one Buster Coen. Another Coen brothers in-joke? More like Coen son: 15-year-old Buster (Ethan's boy) chose the fake credit (BTW, Damon never sheds his shirt) instead of one for his true role as assistant to the script supervisor (bo-ring).

The final reel John Goodman joins Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock in "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close." ... Jodie Foster has a role in Neill Blomkamp's "Elysium."... Rumor has it that "Monsters Inc. 2" will be a prequel. ... We always knew Quentin Tarantino was just an overgrown kid: "Toy Story 3"was No. 1 on his list of favorite 2010 movies (with "Tangled" at No. 5). ... George Clooney will star in an adaptation of the bestselling novel "The Monster of Florence." ... Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton will play "Hansel and Gretel" in a dark (and apparently much more grown-up) take on the fairy tale.

CYNTHIA DICKISON

about the writer

about the writer

More from Minnesota Star Tribune

See More
card image
J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE, ASSOCIATED PRESS/The Minnesota Star Tribune

The "winners" have all been Turkeys, no matter the honor's name.

In this photo taken Monday, March 6, 2017, in San Francisco, released confidential files by The University of California of a sexual misconduct case, like this one against UC Santa Cruz Latin Studies professor Hector Perla is shown. Perla was accused of raping a student during a wine-tasting outing in June 2015. Some of the files are so heavily redacted that on many pages no words are visible. Perla is one of 113 UC employees found to have violated the system's sexual misconduct policies in rece