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Cinematical Seven: Most Contrived Rom-Com Scenarios
Filed under: Comedy », Romance », Cinematical Seven », Lists »
Let me make this clear: when I say that I'm compiling a list of the most contrived rom-com scenarios, I'm not saying that they're automatically the worst -- although a glance at the titles doesn't exactly stray far from that correlation. Tomorrow's The Proposal finds Sandra Bullock forcing Ryan Reynolds into marriage for the sake of holding off immigration authorities and keeping her/their jobs (I guess it's not too soon to remake Green Card and Picture Perfect after all), so we're talking about seven plot points along those lines of high-concept, close-quarters thinking, with some (dis)honorable mentions along the way...
Stars in Rewind: Tony Curtis Gets Mouth-to-Mouth from Sharon Tate
Filed under: Comedy », Awards », Other Festivals », Trailers and Clips », Stars in Rewind »
At the age of 83, Tony Curtis is getting some film festival love. Jam! reports that the legendary actor will receive a lifetime achievement tribute at the Montreal Film Festival, which runs from August 21 to September 1. In honor of that, I thought it would be nice to go back some years and see old-school Tony. Since we're in the throes of summer, Don't Make Waves seemed most appropriate. It's a tale of possessions up in flames and saucy forays with sexy swimmers.
Don't Make Waves was the first Sharon Tate film to hit theaters, and in the scene above, she meets Mr. Curtis. Tony wakes up to a beach wonderland of surfers, gymnastics, and more, and he foolishly decides to take a swim amongst the surfers. While out there, he gets knocked out by a surfboard, and gets dragged to shore by the epic Tate and given mouth to mouth.
There's no poll this time around, but here's a bit of trivia. While the film didn't do so well, it was the inspiration for Malibu Barbie, based on Tate's character in the film, Malibu.
David Dorfman Joins The Persuaders Remake
Filed under: Action », Deals », Scripts », Newsstand », Remakes and Sequels »
Wayyy back in 2005, we reported that Dreamworks had picked up the rights to re-make the 1971 action series The Persuaders. The series starred Roger Moore and Tony Curtis as a mismatched pair of crime fighters, with Moore as an uptight Englishman and Curtis as the sassy American; it was genius, right? I mean, imagine the wacky possibilities ... actually, on second thought, don't. Well, no studio will let even a mediocre TV property go to waste, so here comes The Persuaders (2007). Variety reports that David Dorfman is now attached to write the script for the film version. Dorfman is best known for penning Anger Management and My Bosses' Daughter; which could be considered a pretty dubious distinction.
I've never really seen the point of TV-to-movie adaptations -- I mean, is the idea to improve on the show? If so, the only successful example I can think of was Miami Vice, but most of them are just kind of pointless. You have to wonder what Dreamworks was thinking resurrecting this one.
[via Empire]
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