[dep]

um, not to put too fine a point on it, but chicago is the film version of a musical that is currently, i believe, on broadway; the broadway production is in turn a revival of an early 1970s production (that starred jerry orbach, btw), which was in turn itself a revival of an earlier stage piece that was based, of all things, on a movie. so this isn't actually representative of much that is going on now, but instead of the latest interpretation of a stylized piece from a much earlier day.

dep

[G. Stolyarov II]

An interesting bit of information that is, but it merely emphasizes the fact that the media elite types existed during earlier times, during the Hollywood of the 1950s onward, and somewhat even earlier. The current producers still had to make the selection of whether or not to release a remake of this film, which in itself is an expression of their metaphysical value-judgments.

[lorrainer]

I loved both movie versions of "Little Shop of Horrors," too. The 2nd movie (a great musical) was from the Broadway play, which was from the 1st movie.

[Hildy]

You're right. In fact there was a movie based on this incident many years ago. There was a 1942 movie called Roxie Hart which starred Ginger Rogers and Adolph Menjou.