Salon.com People | Mouthing off

Man, I take a few weeks to hunker down on election news and I miss all the big news. This is now a week old, and probably older from some other source, but Howard Stern plans on thrashing one of my alltime favorite movies: Rock & Roll High School. Credited for popularizing The Ramones (somewhat), the movie is a classic and the fact that it was done by Roger Corman (who ironically wanted to do a movie called Disco High instead of this) means that it should be untouchable. I mean sure, they re-did The Great Texas Dynamite Chase, but they at least had the good sense to call it something else (Thelma & Louise) and not try pass it off as a remake.

Sadly, Stern also plans on doing a remake of Porky's and that will probably garner the most press right there. I don't give a flip about a Porky's remake. I might go see it just to see if it's done even more lewdly than the original. At least this idea has potential. But RRHS will not have The Ramones ... 2 of the members are dead. Stern has mentioned plans to help break out some unknown band, which I think would be a surefire flop right there. Unless maybe they had The Donnas play the role. Hmmmm ... time to re-open my mind on this idea.