It’s a golden age of remakes
George Clooney, about to be a Broadway hot shot, will also star in Noah Baumbach’s new film “Jay Kelly” along with Greta Gerwig and co-writer Emily Mortimer.
“A heartbreaking comedy,” it’s come fall on Netflix.
Spike Lee, who hasn’t laid off since the 1800s, is doing “Katrina: Come Hell and High Water” — a deep dive into the New Orleans hurricane — past, present and who knows. A Netflix documentary.
And 28 years later, Romy and Michele grab a sequel. Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow re-team in a follow to their cult classic “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion.”
Two-time Oscar director Christopher Nolan — from 2023’s atomic hit “Oppenheimer” — working on a new adaptation of “The Odyssey.” Stars Zendaya, Tom Holland, Charlize Theron, Anne Hathaway.
And more than 50 years since its premiere, “Little House on the Prairie” is being reborn. Another television skeleton.
Hey, anyone remember those good old antique times when we had original stories? When we had real movies in a real theater with a real date with real popcorn? And some real lover with real clothes on, even over the fake parts? I’m now waiting for “Third Grandson of Grampa Tarzan.”
Elective reading
So we look forward to what? A someday A-1 repeat of a someday repeat of a Kamala throat clearing? Like some old-time presidential poops: George W. Bush, 2006: “Nobody likes war. It creates a sense of urgency in the country.”
Richard Nixon on Watergate: “I wasn’t lying. I just said things that later seemed to be untrue.”
Biden about money supposedly dribbled from foreign governments: “How should I know? I’m a president not an accountant.”
And USA’s poem for BSer Hunter: Roses are red/violets are blue/The welfare office is awaiting you.
I’m plated and sated
Big thank you to Rosanna Scotto for her Fresco restaurant food basket. Huge thanks to Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist (on East 77th Street) for their flowers. Much appreciation to foot specialist Dr. Rock Positano for that truckload of Veniero’s Pastries cookies and pastries. I haven’t had anything that good since I was behind a hedge in high school.
Just saying . . .
And why’s it Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens — but The Bronx? And who designed that shmatta the Statue of Liberty’s wearing? And why can’t we follow our famous street Broadway in one straight line? And for what reason’s anyone ever write about dumbass Meghan prisoner Prince Harry? And why did hospitals get religion like Columbia Presbyterian? New York Jewish?
Also, come a time in life you may need to quit worrying about your health, because at some point it might go away.
And not only in New York, kids, not only in New York.
