TV's 'America's Biggest A**hole' casting in Boston

A just-for-men version of Oxygen's "Bad Girls Club" hitting reality TV? Yep. Casting scouts for the new Spike-TV reality show, "America's Biggest A**hole," are on the hunt for those who "have the charm of Vince Vaughn, Denis Leary and Stiffler rolled into one."

Ouch.

The crew over at Boston Casting is holding an open casting call 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday, July 13 at Boston Casting located 129 Braintree Street in Allston. They're also hosting auditions 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, July 15 at Red Sky located at 16 North Street in Faneuil Hall. Bring a photo and bio to the open calls.

According to the posting here, contestants will "win cash, fame and respect for their ability to say what mere mortals could only dream of saying."

Not sure if you qualify for reality TV's so-called "A" list? Ask yourself this: Even though some people think you're hysterical, do you happen to piss a lot of people off?

Click here for the lowdown from Boston Casting.

The week in quotes from Hollywood in the Hub

"It's an original play about music and the Holocaust written by insanely talented drama students with musical accompaniment by me. My high school theater director, Steven Bogart, is one of my biggest artistic mentors and I've been trying to get back there since I left."

--Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer tells Pitchfork that she’s rehearsing with students at her former high school in Lexington for a play based on Neutral Milk Hotel's “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea,” culminating in a weekend's worth of shows Thursday, May 7 until Saturday, May 9 at Lexington High's 1000-capacity auditorium.

"I don’t agree with the result and I don’t agree that Massachusetts can’t compete in this $60 billion industry. We’re doing it.”

--Massachusetts Film Office head Nick Paleologos slams an allegedly biased study by Cornell University professor Susan Christopherson, who raises questions about the state's tax incentives to lure filmmakers to the Hub.

"That's a big controversy right now. If you don't give tax breaks in production, productions immediately go someplace else. Not even just Canada they go to Massachusetts, Michigan, Rhode Island; they're all building in tax breaks trying to attract production. The idea of New York not competing on that level is pretty much insane."

--Denis Leary, a Worcester native and star of the NYC-based FX series "Rescue Me," comments on the exodus of productions from the Big Apple, like the Boston-set "Fringe," after New York's Film Production Tax Credit program ran out of money in February.

"I understand that he has a mom, and I respect that, but to me it’s not like because somebody else delivered him, that’s not my child."

--Tom Brady's wife and glamazon Gisele Bündchen sends shockwaves among Bridget Moynahan supporters with her comments in the latest issue of Vanity Fair emoting that she love's Brady's son like he was her own child.

"It's a different kind of satisfaction being around your friends, the friends you grew up with. They have kids, have barbecues and that kind of deal."

--Ben Affleck, slotted to return home this month to film "The Company Men," muses to People magazine that, after all of these years, he's still in a bromance with his Cambridge homeboy Matt Damon.

“I just love her crazy-(rhymes with grass) metaphors. I also like impersonating pretty much anyone I’ve ever had to work for, as in restaurant owners, managers, bartenders, etc.,”

--"SNL" newbie and Wellesley native Michaela Watkins spills to The Improper Bostonian that she loves impersonating politico Arianna Huffington, adding that she misses Boston. “I think it’s such a beautiful city,” she says.