Posted 7:32 PM by Gene

Hey "Jonathan Pollard [wasn't he a SPY?], Bernie Kukoff, CHEAP CHANNEL ENTERTAINMENT, Harbor Entertainment, ESPNCorp Arthouse Films, Bob and Harvey WHINER, Stanley Buchthal, Eric Falkenstein, Nina Essman/Nancy Nagel Gibbs, Jean Cheever and Margaret Cotter, in association with Barney Rosenzweig, Meri Krassner, FGRW Investments, and Karen Jason and Phil Ciasullo Conard"! I have two BRILLIANT ideas for "Broadway musicals"! The first is CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC: THE VILLAGE PEOPLE MUSICAL! What could be a better idea than a live remake of a film musical many agree is one of the worst of all time -- but hey, you can play it up as CAMP, and then there's the -- GAY angle, and you could have a chorus line of SAILORS, and with everybody clapping their hands above their heads this is a SURE-FIRE SMASH! I say GO FOR IT! YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY-M-C-A!

The second is BAND ON THE RUN: THE PAUL McCARTNEY AND WINGS MUSICAL! As those who've been in a supermarket lately know the poet laureate of rock wrote more KEE-YUTE songs in the mid-seventies than just about anyone, all with irritating hooks and self-parodying effects that have made them a favorite of retailers who LOVE to SMIRK. Combine that with a "storyline" out of THE MONTY PYTHON HIGH-SCHOOL REVUE -- maybe about all those people "knockin' at the doh-oh," can't you hear the LAUGHS when MARTIN LUTHER comes in STONED? -- and you have another SMASH, a SMASH that'll leave 'em SINGING ALONG when they're not ROLLING IN THE AISLES!

And if THOSE don't work out -- well, why not a musical based on PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE?

Think we can meet sometime?

(Sorry Jerry and Ockie, sorry Dick and Larry, didn't mean to make you roll over in your graves.)