* Announcement: Remake of Damn Yankees? Damn!

March 24, 2009

Because you can frame the ticket stubs and put them on the bookshelf…Or simply the book, The Year the Yankees Lost First The Pennant, by Douglas Wallop, on which the musical was based.

So, a remake of Damn Yankees, starring Jim Carrey as the Devil and Jake Gyllenhaal as “Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo?” Seems so. According to IMDB.com, it’s slated for a 2012 release.

I loved Ray Walston (My Favorite Martian, Picket Fences) in the role of the Devil, a.k.a., Mr. Appelgate. But Carrey? He has a tendancy to get a bit carried away (sorry). Gyllenhaal? I don’t know. And who can they get to play Lola? Think of the possibilities.

Of course, not everyone is on board with the idea.

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