Are you Ebert or Roeper?
Boston is apparently a popular place to shoot movies - three different films are shooting (or about to shoot) in the metro area. For those who like to keep score the movies are Bachelor No. 2, a remake of The Women, and Pink Panther 2.
America has really been clamoring for that last one.
Anyway, I spotted The Women shooting while I walked home from the office a couple of days ago. Yesterday I was waiting in line to buy some yogurt at a little market on Charles St. when I overheard a well-dressed couple behind me discussing the action in the neighborhood.
She: I saw them shooting. I didn't see Meg Ryan.
He: What were they shooting?
She: Something on Newbury St. Except they had yellow cabs outside that said New York.
He: Really? So they are shooting Boston for New York.
She: I think so. That is just too bad.
He: I hate when they do that. That's just terrible.
She: It ruins the movie.
The 1939 version of The Women is a George Cukor classic about women, class, sex, and love. It's campy, it's funny, it's melodramatic, it has Joan Crawford.
Do you know who is playing the Joan Crawford - America's most terrifying actress - role in the update?
Eva Mendes.
If the movie is bad, I hardly think it will be the fault of shooting Boston for New York.
Labels: 2007, Boston, movies, weird stuff
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I take it you're not an Eva Mendes fan? ...but why?! ;-)
Okay, Eva Mendes is funny in romantic comedies, like Hitch... or even slapstick comedies, like Stuck On You. Playing the same part as Joan "No More Wire Hangers EVER!" Crawford? Not so much. I just don't see it.
Eva Mendes is a lovely woman. And I think she deserves hazard pay for having to play opposite Nic Cage in Ghost Rider.
That said, I suspect many people who are familiar with both Mendes and Joanie would agree that Eva Mendes is no Joan Crawford.
Agreed that she's no Joan, but she could surprise us, no?! Bah! What do I know?!