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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I haven't seen the movie, and I'm not going to. The original movie was perfect, so why on EARTH would anyone remake it?
Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. ZERO MOSTEL and GENE WILDER! That says it all. No offense to Nathan and Matthew, but they could practice for a hundred years and never be one-TENTH as good as Zero or Gene.
Now I'll have to put up with a media blitz of reviews that ignore the elephant in the room - that remaking the original version of The Producers is like remaking Casablanca (which was also done). Stupid, pointless, and utterly venial.
Side note: I couldn't agree more about Andrea Martin - she's wonderful, and all too often wasted. That seems to be the curse of all alumni of the brilliant and underappreciated SCTV, with the possible exception of Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
