{"id":5983,"date":"2004-06-11T18:47:16","date_gmt":"2004-06-12T01:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/06\/11\/do-you-have-a-rim-for-my-minkey.html"},"modified":"2004-06-11T18:47:16","modified_gmt":"2004-06-12T01:47:16","slug":"do_you_have_a_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/11\/do_you_have_a_r.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Do you have a rim for my minkey?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really want to hate this.  I really do.  I generally despise remakes of classic films, especially ones that I actually enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>But though the idea of a <a title=\"The Pink Panther - Coming Soon! Film Database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/films.php?id=4616\">new <i>Pink Panther <\/i>film<\/a> fills me with dread, the idea that Steve Martin is cast as Clouseau, and Kevin Kline as Inspector Dreyfuss &#8212; and Jean Reno showing up, too &#8212; I have to say that &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0383216\/\">the new film <\/a>may not suck.  <a href=\"http:\/\/filmforce.ign.com\/articles\/512\/512392p1.html\">Even with Beyonc\u00e9 in it &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/sekimori.org\/archives\/003196.php\">Seki<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really want to hate this. I really do. I generally despise remakes of classic films, especially ones that I actually enjoy. 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When Worlds Collide: Certainly possibilities, less as a sci-fi...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Movies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Movies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-movies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10512,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/01\/theres_certainly_is_a_nee.html","url_meta":{"origin":5983,"position":2},"title":"There&#8217;s certainly is a need to fear &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 1-Jan-07 2:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... what with war, violence, poverty, corruption ... and, oh, yeah, this ... due out in August (and based, of course, on the classic). 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