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I had heard years ago that Barbra Streisand had bought the movie rights to the “Sunset Boulevard” musical. Do you know if she or anyone has plans to produce this project? I think the time should be now as Streisand is more than age appropriate for playing Norma Desmond. Hugh Jackman should be cast as the male lead to make a major billing impact. Let’s campaign to make this happen before it’s too late.
Streisand, 81, has certainly gotten additional attention lately thanks to her much-praised memoir “My Name Is Barbra.” She has performed songs from the “Sunset Boulevard” musical based on the 1950 movie. And onstage the musical has enjoyed many revivals, with Nicole Scherzinger starring in a recent one.
But it’s Glenn Close, 76, who remains “absolutely dogged” in trying to get the movie made, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has said. She first played Norma 30 years ago, won her third Tony Award for the role and is set to be both producer and star if the movie finally gets made.
Only getting it made has been a long struggle; attempts date back almost 20 years, and one studio dropped its deal a couple of years ago.
I was wondering if Candace Cameron Bure has parted ways with Hallmark Channel movies. She did not appear in any of the 2022 Christmas movies on Hallmark.
Bure departed Hallmark early in 2022 to join the Great American Family as both a star and as chief content officer as the company was hiring away several Hallmark stars. GAF is run by Bill Abbott, a Hallmark executive who left the network as it was becoming more LGBTQ+ friendly; he has seemed to establish GAF as a more conservative alternative to Hallmark. Bure added to that perception, for example by saying that GAF would “keep traditional marriage at its core.” Backlash ensued, and in an interview with Variety this year, Abbott said Bure did not speak for the network. But neither did he commit to LGBTQ+ content in the company’s films: “We’re not seeking to do anything or not do anything, and we take every day as it comes. … We’re just looking to celebrate great stories.”
I binge-watched the Netflix series “Sex Education.” Any chance there will be new episodes?
The British drama has ended after four seasons and 32 total episodes. Series creator Laurie Nunn told Harper’s Bazaar magazine that the decision to end “happened very organically: when we did the writers’ room for season four … something just started to happen through the writing process where I realized that by the time we arrived at that final episode, there weren’t any cliff-hangers and everything had just resolved itself. … It would have felt wrong to keep pushing it forwards when the story had naturally come to an end.”
