Doghead's Cosmic Bar

You can't recast a historical narrative.

Aww... Well, can we at least dump a whole lot of sand on England?

You can't recast a historical narrative.

The studio men-in-suits wanted to set current film of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in LA, with the Wicked Witch tempting Edmund with a cheeseburger (really!) That would have been sacrilege!

I hate when they have to change a classic.

Fortunately the director seems to have been able to get it back on-track, and I gather it's very good (must get round to seeing it sometime.)

Wow. That would have been even worse than making Christopher Robin an American.

Neil Gaiman has a short story in "Smoke and Mirrors" about a writer asked to adapt his book into a screenplay for a studio. They keep changing the requirements (write this role for Brad Pitt...next week, for Tom Cruise...) nearly at random. In the notes to the story, he mentions that that part was based on a real experience of his. (I forget the name of the short story, but it's primarily about a goldfish and a security guard; not the playwright)

I've read that book, Ulrike. I think the story is "The Goldfish Pond and Other Stories". I think they try to turn the author's story into a movie called "I knew the Bride When She Used to Rock and Roll."

It's funny how Hollywood uses commititees and focus groups to mess up a good story. For some reason the Neil Gaiman story made me think of how I had wished Anne Rice had kept creative control over her Vampire movies. I guess now that Anne Rice is a born again Christian and sworn off vampires, if she'd kept creative control "Interview with a Vampire II" would soon star Tom Cruise as an angel.

I am looking forward to the LW&W. I am sure if they had changed it too much fans would be picketing. There are some things even Hollywood should not dare to do.

I thought Anne Rice had become Catholic.

Yeah, Catholic. What you need to realize is that those of us not connected to any sort of Christian church often don't bother to distinguish between them.

Sorry, my bad. I do know there is a difference, but the Anne Rice quotes I had read sounded born again to me. You are correct, she is Catholic. Ulrike is also right about me, although I was raised Lutheran, I don't see a huge difference between the flavors of Christianity.

More Glogg anyone?

Did anyone else see the Daily Show thing about Anne Rice's new Jesus novel and how she said the fans of the vampire series shouldn't be too quick to judge because they might find it "more like her previous books than they are expecting"...
Then they go to a screen showing a fake "first chapter" of her book, which begins, 'Stepping out of the shadows, the gay vampire knelt before Jesus...'
I love the daily show. It is literally the only news I have watched ever since the ending of the last presidential election.