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21st August 2008, 06:45 PM
Like Abbott and Costello I grew up watching a lot of Danny Kaye. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is one of my favorite films. I have heard that it being remade and am, to say the least, apprehensive about the actor that ha to fill those shoes. Knowing that it Mike Myers is not comforting after his latest film, The Guru, died a quick and deserved death at the box office.
From Wiki:
Born David Daniel Kaminsky to Jewish Ukrainian immigrants in Brooklyn, Kaye became one of the world's best-known comedians. He spent his early youth attending Public School 149 in East New York, Brooklyn, before moving to Thomas Jefferson High School, but he never graduated. He learned his trade in his teen years in the Catskills as a tummler in the Borscht Belt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Walter_Mitty_(1947_film)
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty:
The remake of the film (more accurately a new film adaptation of the original short story) has a troubled on-again off-again history. At first, producer-directors Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg, with a host of screenwriters, and Kevin Anderson as Mitty, were going to re-do the film, but it fell through. Then it was to be made at Paramount Pictures, by producers Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., his brother John Goldwyn, and Richard Vane, with director Mark Waters and Owen Wilson cast as Mitty, with a screenplay by Richard LaGravenese. It was supposed to be released in 2007. It has since been taken over by 20th Century Fox, with Mike Myers in the title role, and scheduled to be shown in 2009.
From Wiki:
Born David Daniel Kaminsky to Jewish Ukrainian immigrants in Brooklyn, Kaye became one of the world's best-known comedians. He spent his early youth attending Public School 149 in East New York, Brooklyn, before moving to Thomas Jefferson High School, but he never graduated. He learned his trade in his teen years in the Catskills as a tummler in the Borscht Belt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Walter_Mitty_(1947_film)
http://forums.randi.org/imagehosting/2391548ae1a47ee5b3.jpg (http://forums.randi.org/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=13496)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty:
The remake of the film (more accurately a new film adaptation of the original short story) has a troubled on-again off-again history. At first, producer-directors Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg, with a host of screenwriters, and Kevin Anderson as Mitty, were going to re-do the film, but it fell through. Then it was to be made at Paramount Pictures, by producers Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., his brother John Goldwyn, and Richard Vane, with director Mark Waters and Owen Wilson cast as Mitty, with a screenplay by Richard LaGravenese. It was supposed to be released in 2007. It has since been taken over by 20th Century Fox, with Mike Myers in the title role, and scheduled to be shown in 2009.