Bad News Bared: w/e - 9/30/05 - Page 4

bad news: r.i.p. -Don Adams (1923-2005)

Maxwell Smart is dead...and...loving it. Well, I hope that Adams is in a better place and indeed loving it. "Get Smart" is one of the funniest shows ever written but it was Adams who made the pages even funnier. As hilarious as Steve Carrell can be, he won't come close to the original Agent 86 in next year's planned movie version. For a wonderful tribute, read the obituary written by his son-in-law, Jim Beaver.   (Google
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bad news: comic book adaptation - Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things 

Killing two birds with one stone, this movie fills the fashion of comic book movies and Harry Potter copycats, telling of a little girl who moves to her uncle's magic-filled house. Graham Tallman, an assistant director for Bulletproof Monk is writing the script.   (Variety)

bad news: novel adaptation - Headhunters 

     Nicole Kidman needs at least one or two unfunny Hollywood comedies a year and she just picked next years. Jules Bass's badly reviewed Headhunters tells of four New Jersey women who fly to Monte Carlo to snag rich husbands. There is some subplot with some jewel theives, too. Sounds like something that would have been passable by Disney about 40 years ago, but today will be unbelievable and obnoxious.   (Variety)

bad news:  golf biopic - Dance the Green 

      Hockey great Wayne Gretzky is producing movies? About golf pros? Not that any golf drama has ever had an audience (I think golfers even find them a bore), Hugh Wilson (Dudley Do-Right) is directing a film, produced by Gretzky, and written by Barry Morrow (Race the Sun) about Moe Norman.  (Production Weekly)