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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*wincing*
What talent does she stretch on film this time?
I suppose there are worse books to which it could have happened, but offhand I can't think of one.
Hell, there has yet to be a good film version of that book.
Well thanks, Satan.
For her sake I hope not. That book stank on ice. Then again, I have none too high of an opinion of ol' Fitzgerald's ability to captivate a reader...
Daisy...
Am I mixing up my characters, or wasn't Daisy a super-rich heirress and socialite who knew nothing about anything and while she thought herself o, so refine, she was low-class and ignorant as a house plant?
I mean, given the shift in morality, Paris Hilton IS Daisy!
I wonder if this film attempt will be nearly as popular as her first entry into the video market. The Paris Hilton Sex Video was probably one of the most widely viewed movies in the last couple of years.
That book sucked. As did any movie relating to the book. Especially with Robert Redford.
Paris Hilton in the Story of O.
Yeah, but not everyone in Hollywood has been in that Paris Hilton!
Perfect. Worst novel ever meets worst actress ever. A match made in Hades if ever I heard one.
Fitzgerald's hitting about 7200 rpms about now. Someone should harness that energy.
I don't know. Daisy always struck me as a complete airhead. I never understood why Gatsby was so in love with her.
Paris Hilton as Daisy sounds like a perfect fit to me.
There has yet to be a good BOOK version of that book.
Ah, a kindred spirit!
You write as if Fitzgerald was some sort of refined noblemen. He wrote trash. He'd probably be campaigning for Kerry, and writing columns for Slate or Maxim if he were alive today.
Oh, I don't know . . . any book that makes you muddle through entire chapters of crap like "Caddie smelled like trees" rates pretty damn low to me.
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