In entertainment news, our favorite drug plays a supporting role in Stand Up Guys, a gangster dramedy in the works, starring Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, and Christopher Walken.Stand Up Guys already sounds like a Viagra joke just from the title, especially when you find out it's not about comedians doing club routines, but about geriatric hitmen out for one night of living it up before one of them has to take the big sleep.
Apparently the evening's adventures include Viagra, because Al Pacino ends up in the emergency room after OD'ing on it. Cue Julianna Margulies. Yes! Nurse Carol Hathaway from ER. No typecasting here.
Margulies character treats Pacino's "condition", but before you get any ideas, remember that the treatment for priapism usually involves inserting shunts or using syringes to draw off excess blood from the engorged organ. If that's not enough to make you cringe, how about Pacino in a hospital gown?
Rumor has it that female senators in Ohio pushing for legislation that will require men to take a cardiac stress test and watch Stand Up Guys before obtaining a Viagra prescription.
