Crushing On Josh Peck, Unlikely 'Nickelodeon' Heart Throb
HE'S GONE FROM WACKY TO "THE WACKNESS," from Nickelodeon to the big screen. But I'm betting wherever he travels, Josh Peck will be a winner.
Crabby sheepishly admits that the beefy Peck was always the more appealing teen on Nick's hit show "Drake and Josh."
Peck played the daffy younger brother to the slick guitar-playing Drake, played by Drake Bell, for whom all the school girls swooned.
Most people over 20 probably aren't even aware of the teen series, which first aired in 2004 when Peck weighed a hefty 100 lbs. over his current weight. Wikipedia describes his character as "the victim of many unlucky events, such as being falsely accused of things in which he was never involved. He is usually the sensible one, who was often taken advantage of by Drake."
But even as an overweight, curlyhead buffoon, it was Peck who stole the show, and I was always rooting for him over his supposed cooler, cuter brother.
Now Peck is starring in "The Wackness,"in which he plays a socially inept drug dealer who sells pot in New York's Central Park out of an ice cream vendor's pushcart. And I for one can't wait to see what he delivers.
The indy film has won accolades, collecting the 2008 Audience award at Sundance and the Los Angeles Film Festival Award.
When the flick arrives at your local art house, check it and Peck out. You'll become a fan and gain bragging rights that you saw him coming.
Posted July 8, 2008
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