Doing It For The Kids: Fred Durst, Ice Cube Seek to Provide Positive Role Models for Young Women

doing it for the kids

Fred Durst, Ice Cube Seek to Provide Positive Role Models for Young Women

What is Fred Durst up to right now? It's a question I frequently ask myself, and, what with me plastering his face all over Idolator, one you might be pondering as well. A new album? A new sex tape? A new cred-hungry t-shirt purchase? A new... feel-good sports movie starring Ice Cube and Keke "Akeelah & The Bee" Palmer? The Chocolate Starfish recently finished location shooting on Comeback, the story of the first female quarterback to play in a Pop Warner football tournament. Ice Cube, Durst's former Family Values tourmate, will produce the film and play her coach. Durst's TriBeca Film Festival award-winning directorial debut, The Education Of Charlie Banks, set at Vassar(!), may see release this spring. Did we misjudge Fred? Has his public idiocy just been an act?

Fred would sure like us to think so. Check out the mind-blowing career narrative in this interview promoting Banks. Turns out he always wanted to be "a Hal Ashby, a Woody Allen, a Stanley Kubrick" (at 1:59, I shit you not), but then "the band started taking off," and well... what can you do when fame comes calling for your rap-rock band?

A film by Fred Durst, yo. A film by Fred Durst.

FRED DURST ON MSG,NY - 5/2 [YouTube]
Ice Cube, 'Comeback,' film on Calvary's Field [The Shreveport Times]

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1:30 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Anthony Miccio
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by Dickdogfood at 01:43 PM on 03/26/08
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Yo, a film by Fred Durst

a.k.a. Fred Durst's Summer Project 2008
by NickEddy at 01:51 PM on 03/26/08
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Great job on "Accelerate!"
by cockfightbarmitzvah at 02:19 PM on 03/26/08
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Hey, Ashby got his start shooting backstage videos of dudes throwing deli meats at groupies' asses too, so I'm willing to give Durst a chance.
by Audif Jackson Winters III at 02:34 PM on 03/26/08
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"it's all about/
the he said/
she said bullshit/
I think you better quit/
or you'll be leavin'
with a fat lip"

See, I thought he wanted to be Cassavetes.
by Whigged at 02:59 PM on 03/26/08
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"For some reason I understood that it wasn't real, but it was real, it was made to be real..."

Is he talking about movies, or his stint as Senior VP at Interscope?
by bcapirigi at 03:43 PM on 03/26/08
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set at vassar but filmed at brown. it was a big pain in the ass last summer.
by drjimmy11 at 05:12 PM on 03/26/08
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@bcapirigi: wow, I'm impressed Fred Durst was able to get that close to books. An ivy league library to him is probably like that kryptonite island was to Superman in the latest movie.
by CarsmileSteve at 10:12 AM on 03/27/08
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strangely i WAS wondering what fred durst was up to just the other day when "Rollin'" popped up on The Hits "Top 100 Rock Bands Ever". clearly i wasn't that botherd as i didn't take the 5 seconds to google...