The theme song sounded like wishful thinking at the time but some dreams do come true. FAME! It really *is* going to live forever. The Fame franchise (what else is it at this point?) began life as a gritty teen drama with music in 1980. It morphed into a family-friendly Emmy nominated television series from 1982-1987 spawning vinyl albums (oh, nostalgia) and tours. Eventually there was an Off Broadway reinterpretation and now, as is de rigeur in Hollywood, a "reboot" with the same performing arts nyc high school setting albeit new characters and teachers (including Broadway/TV great Bebe Neuwirth and "Karen" herself Megan Mulally)The desperately eager performing teen genre didn't begin with Fame...unless there's a lost classic of the same name starring Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland disintegrating in some basement somewhere...
Read the rest over at Towleroad for a few brief notes on this week's new releases, Bruce Willis vs Bruce Willis' Surrogate, Tilda Swinton in I am Love and more...
