Frankly, my Dear, it's a Really Bad Idea

I learn from playbill.com _ which learned it from Fox News _ that Hugh Jackman and Jill Paice are high on the list of hopefuls to play Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in a new musical version of Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind." Paice was the attractive, light of foot ingenue Nikki in Kander and Ebb's "Curtains" which is about to open on Broadway (and previously world premiered at the Ahmanson Theatre).

Hugh Jackman, of course, is Wolverine.

My second thought upon reading this news was that Jackman might make a credible Rhett.

And my first thought upon reading that anybody would think about making a musical of "Gone with the Wind" was something along the lines of...

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followed shortly thereafter by the impluse...

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

If memory serves _ and, frighteningly, in this case, I think it does _ I recall a musical "Gone with the Wind" embeded in the 1984 Drew Barrymore/Ryan O'Neal movie "Irreconcilable Differences?" That was a young Sharon Stone playing the singing Scarlett.

Some things, to borrow a phrase from "GTTW's" Mammy, "jes ain't fittin."