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THR informs me that NBC has picked up a script based on Jacqueline Susann's soaptastic 1966 melodrama Valley of the Dolls*. The project will be written, directed, and produced by Oscar-nominated director Lee Daniels, and is apparently more inspired by the 1967 film adaptation of Susann's story than the original novel. I've never seen the movie, but I have read the massively terrible book, and I don't care how good this Daniels dude is: there is nothing that can save that material.

*#5 on Wordcandy's List of Unreadable Books

Labels: Non-Wordcandy books, TV

After all, what other pressing issues could they have to worry about?

Don't worry, dear readers, that absolutely vital bill to declare Herman Melville's Moby-Dick as the official "epic novel" of Massachusetts has passed their state House of Representatives.

Thank goodness, you know?

Labels: Non-Wordcandy books, Politics

Nothing but good times ahead...?

According to this article in the Daily Mail, broadcasters will be showing a brand-spanking-new adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (you know, the book about the hard-working, pious girl who is raped by her employer and abandoned by her husband and eventually executed) as "as a tonic to the gloomy economic outlook".

Note to self: Never take a tonic for anything from a Daily Mail staff member.

Labels: newspaper articles, Non-Wordcandy books

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Unwatchable

Friday, October 10, 2008

After all, what other pressing issues could they have to worry about?

Monday, August 25, 2008

Nothing but good times ahead...?