Kevin Bacon's Birthday and a Footloose Remake?
So, I was just out to my mom's place and happened to catch a few minutes of EntertainmentInsideHollywoodAccessTonight, and what I heard during those few minutes utterly blew my mind: today is Kevin Bacon's fiftieth birthday.
Let me repeat that: Kevin Bacon -- one of my favorite actors, the star of one of my favorite movies (Footloose), the guy who brought to life the quintessential 1980s "rebel with a cause" (Ren McCormack, one of my many heroes during my high school years), the guy who everyone else is only six degrees away from -- has just hit the half-century mark.
And if that isn't alarming enough, they also said that there's a big-screen remake of Footloose in the works starring the tween sensation du jour, Zac Efron.
I'm going to go lie down with a cool cloth on my head now. God, I feel old...
Comments
I can relate. I learned today that they are remaking Highlander.
I'm at a loss for words at the moment.
And yeah, I guess I'm old, too.
Posted by: Amber | July 11, 2008 3:37 PM
There have always been remakes, of course, but it's just been ridiculous the last few years. It's like H'wood is trying to recreate an entire generation's movies, and I don't quite know why. It seems like their used to be a decent interval between the original and the remake -- forty years between King Kongs, for example -- but no more.
Posted by: jason | July 12, 2008 8:19 AM