If I hadn’t been slogging around in a kind of slow-motion gelatinous London membrane yesterday, I would have posted Stu Van Airsdale‘s early-bird Reeler posting about some of the ’07 Tribeca Film Festival selections. such as: (a) Angelina Jolie‘s A Moment in the World, a documentary that’s most likely about her U.N.-sponsored humanitarian efforts (and is apparently her behind-the-camera debut); (b) Lucky You, the trouble-plagued, endlessly delayed Curtis Hanson gambling movie with Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore and Robert Duvall; (c) Spider-Man 3…please; and (d) the feature directing debut of Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit, called The Education of Charlie Banks.

“It’s 33 years old, but it’s just a shadow of its former self. It used to be prestigious, but now it’s seen as a chore. The movie studios used to vie for the attention of theater owners and operators with elaborate dog-and-pony shows, celebrity meet-and-greets, and teaser reels about upcoming films. No more — ShowWest just isn’t a big deal to Hollywood anymore.

“Blame the consolidation of screens by leading chains Cinemark, Regal [and] AMC, which control a combined 14,000 screens and 55% of the box office revenue.

“‘ShoWest started out as a gathering of hundreds of mom-and-pop exhibitors who really were making choices about which pics to play. Now studios can cover the entire country for the most part by speaking with the top chains that have tonage with screens,’ an insider explains. The days of the big dais — remember how Warner Bros’ used to groan with heavyweight stars? — are passe. Now hick theater owners and operators are lucky to get a cocktail party.” — Deadline Hollywood Daily‘s Nikki Finke.

“Did Mike Binder tonight” — i.e., interviewed him in conjunction with a screening series after showing Reign Over Me. I think I recorded it with your recorder but am afraid to check it for fear I don’t know what I’m doing. Mike was excited I was taping it at any rate. BRILLIANT FUCKING MOVIE. Emotionally spent watching it. Adam Sandler…WHO KNEW??? My upscale West L.A. movie crowd even commented on the fact they would have skipped it normally because it starred Sandler but were drawn because I included it in my film series. They were BLOWN AWAY — telling all their friends and worried people won’t go see this movie. Big hit with this crowd, Jeff. Will other like-minded people even bother to check it out? I certainly hope so.” — note from a friend who runs a movie-screening class, received early this morning.

Haste, jet-lag, a knack for the occasional “duhh” move. Whatever the reason, I think my best excuse for reading this Something Awful Kevin Smith parody riff as legit is that I was so amused, nay, aroused by the imaginary title of a new Smith movie — Derogatory Term For Slacker Twentysomethings: Funny Word After Colon — that I somehow wished away the obvious tells that it was a parody piece. As far as parody allows, it hit my funny bone in exactly the right way. The acknowledgement of an obviously overly wordy and self conscious title somehow made it seem moderately (and in Smith’s case, welcomely) hip.

The Hollywood Reporter‘s Tatiana Siegel is announcing that Katt Williams, a stand-up comic (“The Pimp Chronicles”) and Norbit costar, will write and star in Marshalls, a DreamWorks comedy about “the first black marshals of the Old West.” Beloved envelope-pusher Eddie Murphy will produce and co-star. The two obvious recalls, of course, are (a) Murphy’s famous 48 HRS./Reggie Hammond line from 25 years ago — “I’m your worst fucking nightmare, a nigger with a badge!” and (b) Blazing Saddles again, perhaps with more edge and almost certainly with something other than jaunty Mel Brooks-like tone, for reasons of pride if nothing else.