[Clemenza]

James Earl Jones and Leslie Uggams headline "On Golden Pond."

I preferred "On Golden Blonde" myself.

[Miss Marple]

While Hollywood and the film schools are congratulating themselves about cross-casting, perhaps they would like to explain the lack of new, original screenplays and the dependence on re-makes and sequels, instead.

The absolute worst is the remake of what was a classic children's movie, "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" with that creepy Johnny Depp in the Gene Wilder title role.

[pepperhead]

I wish Hollywood stop it with all the remakes already.

[I still care]

"he said actors of color need to be cast in more thoughtful films that tell culturally specific stories."

This guy doesn't get it. That, in itself, is racism. Why should a black actor restrict himself to "culturally specific stories"?

That said, I can't imagine anyone but Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden. Bang Zoom, to the moon, Alice...

[prisoner6]

NO

prisoner6

[dead]

If it sells tickets, its a good idea. If it doesn't sell tickets, its a bad idea.

I don't think "The Honeymooners" is going to sell many tickets.

[Tall_Texan]

But just you wait until there's a white version of "The Color Purple" and watch how tolerant some are of diversity.

The numbers cited actualy tell the real story. Whites don't frequent the movies as much because the scripts today are unimaginative and recycled. Minorities with less income have less entertainment options so more and more movies are skewed for that demographic.

Movies. Another "old media" that is slowly dying from a lack of an original thought.

[newzjunkey]

The trend, he said, compares to the casting of minorities in commercials, a common practice fueled by market research showing that whites are no less likely to buy a product if a person of color pitches it — but that minorities are much more likely to use it.

RACISTS! Look at where they're taking themselves: We don't want none of that Whitey product. We don't want none of that Whitey news. We don't want none of that Whitey educatin'!

I admit I've become hyper-sensitively suspicious to the severe drop in whites in ads. It's nice to see it isn't paranoia but a genuine phenomena done for the reason I suspected: whites are colorblind when it comes to product ads, minorities are not.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

What's next? A hip-hop version of Grease called "Greasy?"

[DakotaRed]

I'll be anxiously waiting for the remake of an all white cast of "Amos & Andy."

No wait, can't do that. All White would be racist.

Maybe an All White version of "No Cabin In The Sky?" Nope, it was pro religious beliefs and again, All White would be racist.

Oh well, Hollyweird doesn't get money from me anyways, not even when their garbage comes out on cable.

[Khurkris]

There will only be one...
Ralph Kramden
Archie Bunker
Al Bundy
Fred Sanford
Alf...ok, so he was an Alien Life Form, he was still a one-off

No matter what the Hollywoods would have us try to believe.

[LS]

Let's see: "Catwoman" was almost a career-ender for the excellent looking Ms. Berry; "Honeymooners"---well, too early to tell, but I'm predicting a bomb because the original was about a blue-collar hen-pecked mailman who threatened domestic abuse (hardly PC today); and "Charlie's Angles??" I'm stunned that ever made it to CA II, despite the excellent-looking Ms. Moore.

The problem is that race is NOT an issue and that in most cases these are simply bad movies, black, white, or green. While I loved Star Wars, I thought Samuel L. Jackson's "Mace Windu" character was pretty weak. I kept waiting for him to say something like, "Jedi this, mofo!"

[RckyRaCoCo]

Will Smith as James West

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