At this point, Hollywood has furnished so many signs of the Apocalypse, the Apocalypse has only itself to blame for not actually happening. And yet, there’s always room for one more portent. Here it is, folks, and it’s a biggie: Jessica Friggin’ Simpson (pictured, right) is angling to star in a Working Girl remake. "I’m so excited about it," she says, "People are going to laugh."
Yes they will, Simpsie. They may cry, too. I know I get a little misty when I think of my favorite shoulder-padded, Carly Simon-driven fempowerment fantasy vitiated by your bubbleheadedness. This is… frankly, unnatural. There’s already been one "homage" to the 1988 Melanie Griffith (left) classic (seen here in the original Czech), the loathsome Little Black Book. Do we really need another demonstration of classical feminism’s devolution?
You tell me, Popwatchers. You tell me. Meanwhile, I’ll call Ashton Kutcher and see if he’s ready to stpe into Harrison Ford’s shoes. Verily, we live in diminished times.
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Oh, not again…. I don’t think I could take this…
She’s so good on those ProActiv commercials that I’m sure she could pull this off. Not.
Yes, let’s please not do that.
Maybe if someone usefull was there to guide her she could do a good job. I think some of the people around her now kiss her butt so much that even when they see her do something awefull they tell her shes doing great. I mean shes surrounded by family and friends, how much honesty could she possibly be getting? Did you listen to her CD? Did you see her in the two movies shes done? Whos telling her that what shes doing is great? Anyway, hopefully she will have a great cast around her and a great director. Maybe that will bring out the best in her.
Straight to DVD.
How long before “the powers that be” realize that nobody likes Jessica Simpson. Some of us may have enjoyed her schtick when she was Mrs. Lachey, but definitely NOT on her own.
Go Team Nick!
The Hollywood remaking machine is getting a little out of control. Actually, a lot.
Oh no what a stupid comment. Team Nick! Wooo! Are you for real? I wonder if your sorry butt is married or if you have a significant other. I wonder how you would feel if you were publicly bashed. I wonder how you would feel if lies were made up about you along with the truth. I wonder what a public break up would do to your state of mind. Probably nothing since you have a frozen rock for a heart. You foul beast get some morals. Dont pick sides on something you know nothing about except for what you’ve been fed. Go drown in a pool filled with vomit you animal!
Scott, that’s not very nice. April 1 isn’t for a few more months….
This IS an April fools joke, right? Mr. Brown, PLEASE tell us this is as true as that time I told everyone that some Iranian terrorists had taken over the local Sizzler (See? Good BS. It was actually what Chunk got called out for saying to the cops in “Goonies”).
Jessica Simpson in a remade working girl? I don’t know why this bugs me so much, but a chill went up my spine as those words flashed accross my screen. This is AWFUL news. Say it ain’t so Scott! Please man, just one post that says “Ha ha you suckas the main man was just kidding!” PLEASE?!!!??!!??!!?!
Isn’t it too early for the remake of a 1988 movie? Or isn’t there a law that prohibits one to remake a movie this early – with such a BAD actress? Could we make one up just for this?
Please, say it aint’t so. She’s even awful in her own music videos…
No you dramatic cow hes not lying. This has been news for ages. Luke Wilson is supposed to be in it as well. You must live under a rock or in a cave you Gollum looken mess. If you hate the idea so much at least give a reason. Dont go into these stupid dramatics and state the same thing at least eight different ways. We get it you broken record, we get it.
I wonder how we’d all feel if we thought that tuna was a bird and told the whole country how we felt. Or how we’d feel if we filmed a voyeuristic show about our married personal lives but then later complained that the media paid too much attention to us.
Celebrities who want to entertain us at work but stay private at play usually do. Celebrities who invite the public into their lives by turning into a circus freakshow have no right to whine about it when their publicity seeking creation turns into Frankenstein’s monster.
Wow, “some guy”, that was harsh. Is that you Joe Simpson? Sensitive much?
No, its not Joe. Joe is busy at the moment but would you like to leave him a message? Tee hee hee. I just think some people are too willing to be evil when theres no need to be. I also think too many kiddies like talk so much poop they might as well get a job as an outhouse. If you dont know the truth then why speak like you do? Dont bees haten mmmkay? YALL BE JEALOUS BEACHES! GO RICKY, GO RICKY, GO RICKY!
Why does Hollywood remake movies that should not be remade? Working Girl works with Melanie, Harrison and Sigourney. It will not work as a 2007 remake!
This is so sad! Working Girl (along with Baby Boom and Big Business) is a classic 80s NYC working woman movie! How can they remake it and make it?? With Jessica Simpson?? NO WAY.
No. No. No. When are producers going to realize that this woman’s 15 minutes of fame are up? Wasn’t her self-embarassing Daisy Duke and her “success” with ‘Employee of the Month’ enough to prove that Jessica Simpson (a.k.a. Ms. Chicken or Tuna) is no actress? She certainly has enough attributes to appear in Playboy mag, she may have a nice voice, but so do millions of others. Ms. Simpson is a classless, talentless and brainless individual, and she should not continue to be impossed on us, especially in a remake of a movie that had nothing wrong with it. “If it works, don’t fix it”….. As for Ms. Simpson, I wish her well, but don’t care to see any of her movies.
“Raccoon Eyes, I look like Ashton Kutcher in drag” Simpson as Tess McGill is an insult! A complete and utter insult to every single hard working woman, ESPECIALLY in New York!! Griffiths was the only person who could fit into those shoes, and no one else.
When oh! when is someone going to tell this girl she can’t sing, she can’t act, she has a lousy track record
with men and she has bad skin? Her 15 minutes are so over and now it’s time to get that minimum wage job she
is qualified for.
When oh! when is someone going to tell this girl she can’t sing, she can’t act, she has a lousy track record
with men and she has bad skin? Her 15 minutes are so over and now it’s time to get that minimum wage job she
is qualified for.
Forget Harrison Ford, I just want to know who is going to be able to fill the shoes of Alec Baldwin or Joan Cusack? I’m no huge Melanie Griffith fan, but she does have a sweet vulnerability in this movie and while Ms. Simpson seems like a nice girl, at least Griffith can act, er, sometimes, when given good direction.
Then again, WHO did direct those ProActiv commercials??
What a bunch of jealous beaches! What the hell were your parents doing when you were growing up? Apparently they were too busy cheating on each other to teach you how to be a human being. Please get your tubes tied. We dont need anymore idiots like you around. And if you have kids, give them up for adoption. Your eggs are rotten, as rotten as your heart. May you be stricken with an STD that takes away your ability to have children! ALAKAH KAKA POO POO ON YOU! Shame on you for trashing someone you dont know. POO POO ON YOU I SAY!
Why do they insist on remaking movies so soon? If we want to see “Working Girl” we can rent it. I don’t mind if they occaisonally(sp?) remake the old classics with a more current twist but there is NO reason to do this movie.
Why is there a picture of Sandra Bernhard next to Melanie Griffith?
“Please get your tubes tied. We dont need anymore idiots like you around. And if you have kids, give them up for adoption. Your eggs are rotten, as rotten as your heart. May you be stricken with an STD that takes away your ability to have children!”
“I also think too many kiddies like talk so much poop they might as well get a job as an outhouse.”
“YALL BE JEALOUS BEACHES! GO RICKY, GO RICKY, GO RICKY!”
“You foul beast get some morals. Dont pick sides on something you know nothing about except for what you’ve been fed. Go drown in a pool filled with vomit you animal!”
Clearly, “some guy” picked the wrong day to get off prozac.
Excuse me while I go vomit…
Some Guy,
We don’t know her but some record producer thought that she has a good voice…that could be fixed through the miracle of the sound studio. While we should not judge without judging ourselves, just so you know that the point of entertainment is to ENTERTAIN not annoy. Would you want Fran Drescher to play Mable from the Pirates of Penzance? I didn’t think so.
Daducer you bees blind. Sandra Bernhard is your lover/mother, she is not Jessica Simpson. Look at the picture you dillusional, bacon strip licker. Take your meds. Seeing your love/mother everywhere isnt healthy. I mean she just went to Home Depo for goodness sake. She’ll be back to lay down the law (and the carpet) in like 20 minutes, geez.
Some Guy, we should get off the topic of mothers, especially since I just got off yours.
Ep: lol!
Look, clearly we know that when he was in his mothers womb, she was hit by twelve parked cars.