Bits and pieces for Thursday:

• According to JoBlo, Jane Fonda visited with Larry King last night, and told him that there are some conversations taking place about a sequel to Nine to Five. While this is among the worst ideas I've ever heard -- is any movie more firmly rooted in its time? -- I have to admit that I'm a sucker for Dolly Parton (Yes, I'm the one person who saw Straight Talk in the theater. Twice.), and will accept even the lamest excuse to watch her be sassy. I would totally go.

• Remember the Jason McElwain? The autistic kid who'd spent two years as a basketball manager, so the coach let him dress for a game his senior year? And he came out raining threes to the delight of his teammates, the fans, and the entire world? Well, we mentioned shortly after the game that his family was being courted by multiple drooling studios -- and now, ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner: Columbia gets to make the Jason McElwain movie.

• Curse that scientologist baby! Tom Cruise was supposed to head off today on a world-wide publicity voyage to promote Mission: Impossible III (which, let's face it, no one will even know exists if he doesn't go talk it up), but the arrival of little Suri is screwing everything up. Cruise has canceled a junket scheduled for LA today, and upcoming stops (including Paris, London, and Rome) are very much up in the air. Katie, if this movie flops, you are in such huge trouble. Couldn't you cross your legs for a few weeks, or something?

Just a few months after the announcement of a Grey Gardens musical (which opens March 7 Off Broadway) comes another report of a movie-to-music adaptation. This time, however, the movie in question is decidedly more frisky: out doing pre-Oscar press for her Transamerica theme, Dolly Parton has been telling the press that she's working on a musical version of 1980's Nine to Five. According to Parton, the show will star a young, 20-something cast and will be set in the same time period as the movie, so you can stop worrying that the big hair and blue eye shadow will be replaced. Additionally, the musical will feature "more romance than the movie," as well as an expanded set of secondary characters. Parton is writing the music, while Patricia Resnick, who co-wrote the screenplay, will pen the show's book. Though no personnel decisions have yet been made, Tony-winner Joe Mantello (who directed both Wicked and Take Me Out) has been mentioned as a possible director for the show.

Parton expects the show hit Broadway some time in 2007.

[via Newyorkology]