Comments on: The Rape of Our Collective Childhood, Continued

By: Attmay

Attmay — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:41:10 +0000

Herbert Ross did, however, direct Steel Magnolias and Funny Lady. Doesn’t get any gayer than that.

How ironic that Craig Zadan, one of the producers of the original Footloose (and openly gay), is now part of the Disney made-for-TV inferior-remake factory that gave us Matthew Broderick in The Music Man. Robert Preston is looking down on us and saying “what goes around comes around, bitches!”

He also co-produced that miniseries that should have been called Ronald Reagan Eats Babies, not to mention some truly awful made-for-TV biopics of The Beach Boys and The Three Stooges.

By: audrey

audrey — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:04:27 +0000

I thought it was a movie version of the stage version of Footloose, like the Hairspray thing. I guess this is now Zac Efron’s niche.

By the way, the extra on the music on the Footloose DVD is fantastic. Did you know all the songs were written specifically for the movie? The director/writer/producers all consider the movie a nontraditional musical.

By: GroovyVic

GroovyVic — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:18:50 +0000

Dance your ass off.

By: John Stansbury

John Stansbury — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:05:33 +0000

Wha? A remake? I thought it was gonna be a sequel. Because, you know, there are so many questions left unanswered from the first Footloose.

By: Agent Bedhead

Agent Bedhead — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:34:03 +0000

I fail to see the relevance of a remake – what could they possibly do different or better than the original?

Okay, maybe they could take out the Kenny Loggins stuff and replace it with . . . yeah, nevermind.

By: GroovyVic

GroovyVic — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:23:06 +0000

Gawd. I just saw this Zac person on everything from notebooks to backpacks up at the Wal-Mart.

Bleck.

Footloose? Seriously?

By: Mr. Atoz

Mr. Atoz — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:42:49 +0000

Kevin Bacon was a guy that straight men could see as cool, and he had a plausible bad-boy sexiness for most women. No woman over the age of fifteen could find Zac Efron sexy, and he’s probably too effete for most gay men. My other point was the IMDb links: compare the bodies of work between the two directors and see which looks more gay. Kenny Ortega directed multiple episodes of The Gilmore Girls, for crissakes.

Totally O/T, I can’t believe your blog didn’t mention Robert Heinlein’s centenary on Saturday, 7/7/07. The vaunted Flea intelligence network slipped up on that one.

By: Flea

Flea — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:19:09 +0000

From your description it sounds as though the remake will have a whole lot less gay subtext.