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Featured Post: Musicals... Enough's enough!

Over at the movie blog Cinematical, they're complaining about the number of movies that have been adapted into Broadway musicals. Funny, nobody seems to complain much when musicals are made into movies.


Variety reports that Legally Blonde, which has already played in cities like New York, is going national this fall. Even more shocking, in another story, Variety reports that Bubble Boy is getting some workshop musical treatment. Bubble freakin' Boy. I happen to adore the movie, but we just don't need Shiny Happy musical performers and vato cutting on-stage.

Where will it end? Usually, about here, I'd make a joke about some unheard of film that would never ever become a musical. But honestly, after these, plus A Color Purple, I don't think anything is sacred, or off-limits. Just you wait -- one day we'll get to see Carmen Electra's boobs bouncing around not in 3D splendor, but rather a musical version of Scary Movie. She'll run through the audience, a light spray of water hitting her as she tries to run from the killer in her underwear ... while singing.


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