By now we’ve all heard about Hollywood’s aggressive move towards spinning decades-old movies into Broadway shows. But why stop at “Animal House,” “Back to the Future,” “The Sting,” “Mrs. Doubtfire,” “Tootsie” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”?
Yes, those films are all classics of a kind. But then there are real classics; the kind seen on Turner Classic Movies. When black-and-white was a character in and of itself. When stars had faces. Faces like Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Dick Powell, Myrna Loy, Asta, (if Sandy can do it, why not Asta?) Lauren Bacall, Rosalind Russell and so on.