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Movie Remakes, Part II
Entertainment Weekly has a new article on some additional planned remakes:
"Weekend Update: Hollywood should remake THESE movies. Forget ''Harvey,'' ''Topper,'' and ''The Pink Panther.'' Gillian Flynn offers five better alternatives for 21st-century modernizing:
I couldn't be happier that ''Drumline'''s Nick Cannon is doing a remake of that '80s Patrick Dempsey nerd-with-a-riding-mower treasure ''Can't Buy Me Love.'' (Perhaps Frankie Muniz can do a cameo as the guy who weeps, ''You s--t on my house!'') And frankly, I'm intrigued by Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez dipping into the remake of the sweet 1996 Japanese film ''Shall We Dance?'' But I must say to you, Mr. Travolta: Stepping into Jimmy Stewart's long, lean shadow in a redux of ''Harvey''? Imaginary bunnies aren't the only flight of fancy here.
''Harvey'' is just one of many silly moves Hollywood is planning in its remake frenzy. Steve Martin in ''Topper''? ''10 Again''? ''The Party'' and ''The Pink Panther'' without Peter Sellers? I now pause to shudder, and issue a warning: He who touches ''The Thin Man'' will feel my wrath."
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