The Goodbye Girl Remake

[ceebeegee]

TNT is remaking The Goodbye Girl, one of my favorite movies. This movie is a touchstone for my family--we all loved the song, I totally identified with Quinn Cummings (and just found out through imdb that she's only a few months older than I am) and my mother and I still quote the "I got a lawyer acquaintance--" "Oh God. You're an actor" exchange. It's such a great, late '70s in New York City movie--why are they remaking it? There's no way they can improve that movie, and I have no idea how they're going to deal with the whole "Richard III as a flaming fag" schtick in the original. It's not the same joke that it was in 1977--that joke has been done to death by now (this was also a weakness when they musicalized the movie for Broadway a few years ago).

Quinn Cummings. Such a cutie in that movie, with her long brown ponytails and her big eyes.

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[king-duncan.livejournal.com]

I heard they've kept the "Richard III as a flaming fag" schtick.

Hallie Eisenberg is the kid in this version.

It's all SO WRONG.

[ceebeegee.livejournal.com]

InDEED.

I'll watch the first half hour or so tonight, then I think the staggering lack of charisma that is Patricia Heaton, Jeff Daniels and (possibly) Hallie Eisenberg (I haven't seen that much of her work) will compel me to lurch for the remote.