Posted on 09/09/2004 10:47:48 AM PDT by presidio9
Maybe F. Scott Fitzgerald is rolling in his grave. Then again, maybe not.
All I know is, entrepreneurial 'N Sync singer Lance Bass is getting ready to produce a big-screen take on "The Great Gatsby" with Paris Hilton as an updated Daisy Buchanan.
Maybe someone will ask Paris tonight at her, uh, book party if she's even read "The Great Gatsby." Perhaps Merle Ginsberg, the ghostwriter of "Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose," will read it to her tonight at Lot 61.
Anyway, if Bass and his partners get their way, the Jay Gatsby character will be played by Chris Carmack, the third lead young man on Fox's TV series "The O.C."
Jamie-Lynn DiScala, of "The Sopranos," will play Tom Buchanan's love interest — made famous in the 1974 film version by Karen Black and in 1949 by Shelley Winters.
So to review: That's Paris doing Mia Farrow, who in turn did Betty Field, and a guy from "The O.C." as Robert Redford, previously incarnated by Alan Ladd.
No word on who will play the story's conscience, Nick Carraway, who was brought to the screen in 1974 by Sam Waterston. I'm thinking Freddie Prinze, Jr., but no one asked me.
All kidding aside, Lance continues to be a tireless presence who will not rest on the 'N Sync laurels. He's just produced another film, "Lovewrecked," directed by Randal Kleiser and also starring Jamie-Lynn and Carmack alongside Amanda Bynes.
By the way, here's a title for the Gatsby update: "Jay G." I'm not kidding.
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Okay, who'd win in a bore-off: Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, or Theodore Dreiser?
You're crazy lady.
You beat me to it!! No acting needed by Paris. Just through some 20's style outfits on her and she IS Daisy, a self-absorbed socialite with more money than brains.
With that cast, they should call this version "The Grate Gatsby".
Ahem... I'd check out her web page before I spoke to her like that. *chuckle*
Not that there's anything wrong with that. :)
NO!!!!!!
Paris is Daisy? That talent scout's crazy!
My man Lance, at first he said "No way!"
Then that boy, he found out what it pay.
Those Hollywood guys, they always chase a buck
Too bad they make movies that really do suck
I nominate this post for poem of the day.
I'll take that whole genre over Waugh/Woolf et al any day.
I hate to tell you, but I've never read Dreiser. I kinda bounced around the tracking system in public school like a ping-pong ball. My understanding is that James Joyce is the all-time most boring author in history, and that the literati like to talk about him because he is so incoherent that it makes them seem smart.
OTOH, I've also heard the literati complain that people bought "A Brief History of Time" to make themselves look smart, but that no-one could actually read it. To the contrary, I found it had a most brilliant manner of teaching the abstractions of physics to the hoi palloi. I think the literati might simply not be that smart. I mean how many critics complained they couldn't follow Mission Impossible, a movie based on a Tom-and-Jerry episode, for Pete's sake.
The Great Gatsby is one of the few books I never finished. About a third in I realised that I didn't really give a rat's arse about what happened to any of the characters.
...Of anything but money, they don't give a um, a
(i'm stuck.)
I must admit to never having read Waugh or Woolf. I do have a well-publicized dislike of the Transcendentalists, though. Bunch of posers.
You'd be surprised the degree to which I am NOT a prude, but am I the only one who thinks that after making a video of herself having sex in a threesome (and I believe eventually negotiating a cut of the profits for its distribution), Paris Hilton has identified herself as a stupid, filthy skank? I'm really disturbed by the media touting her as a cute show biz phenom when she participated in outright hard core pornography.
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