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Thursday, May 4, 2006

Pinch Me

Posted by on May 4 at 13:19 PM

From TVGuide.com:

[Gina Gershon]— coincidentally fresh from catching the stage show Showgirls, The Best Movie Ever Made. Ever!—reveals that yes, she is developing, as a writer and director, an off-Broadway musical adaptation of that which some will argue was not the best movie ever made. “[Showgirls scribe] Joe Eszterhas and I were at this 10th-anniversary thing in Vegas, and he [mentioned it to the crowd], and everyone went crazy!” Gershon reports with a laugh. “So there’s a built-in audience.”

Striking the right balance between adaptation/homage and poke-in-the-pasties parody, though, is the hurdle Gershon faces. “There’s a [precise] way to go about this,” she says. “It just has to be done exactly right to be really funny.”

Full story here.