Have FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH and CLUELESS'S Amy Heckerling produce, write and direct a GIDGET movie with -
GIDGET - RACHEL BLANCHARD (Cher oN TV CLUELESS)
LARUE - ALLYSON HANIGAN
MOONDOGGIE - JASON BIGGS
GIDGET'S DAD - EUGENE LEVY
ANNE - COURTNEY THORNE-SMITH
HER HUSBAND - MATTHEW PERRY

(In the original 1965-66 sitcom:
GIDGET - SALLY FIELD
LARUE - LYNETTE WINTER
MOONDOGGIE - forgot
GIDGET'S DAD - DON PORTET
ANNE - BETTY CONNER
HER HUSBAND -PETER DUELL (died in 1971, one of those mystery deaths))

(SANDRA DEE played GIDGET in the very first film in 1959. A year ago i saw a new paperbakc of the ORIGINAL 1957 bestseller by Frederick Kohner!)

I think they could do a Gidget movie and I think the Clueless director would be a good match.

But how about:

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Rachel Leigh Cook as Gidget

or

Vanessa Marcil
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Originally posted by Steve Carras
Have FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH and CLUELESS'S Amy Heckerling produce, write and direct a GIDGET movie with -
GIDGET - RACHEL BLANCHARD (Cher oN TV CLUELESS)
LARUE - ALLYSON HANIGAN
MOONDOGGIE - JASON BIGGS
GIDGET'S DAD - EUGENE LEVY
ANNE - COURTNEY THORNE-SMITH
HER HUSBAND - MATTHEW PERRY



And of course, I think it goes without saying...somehow, someway, we also need a cameo by a certain someone who has since become quite a veteran of the big screen (and the small!) after her days of being the original TV Gidget. That's an interesting angle, what would you have her do here?

J.

good suggestion.

The girl from the tv Clueless is probably too old to be Gidget. Eugene Levy is much too Jewish to be Russ Lawrence and the guy who played Russ on the 60's tv show was Don PorteR (actually spelled with two small "r"s) not Portet!

Out of curiosity, and no offense meant, but what's your fixation about people looking "too Jewish"? Not that I'm accusing you of being here to restart the Third Reich or anything, but it was just a very curious trait that I wondered about since I've been reading your posts.

J.

Say when I'm raising the clone of Hayley Mills I am intending to put her in films. When she reaches 16 maybe I'll ask her to play Gidget and see if I get her agent to get her the role. I'll be raising her in America.

Actually my gripe is aginst those who are Jewish and look it (like Sally Field). Or people who are, look, and act it (like Eugene Levy). Not against people who are it and don't look or act it (like Lesley Howard). Who cares if one is Jewish as long as they don't show it. The less Jewish looking and acting one is the better, that's my motto .

Yeah, God forbid (no pun intended) that anyone actually show their religious beliefs and/or ethnicity in any way, shape or form. Who needs to display anything that displays any kind of individuality? What a grisly thought!!! Thanks again for enlightening me, I think I'll be out buying peroxide and blue contact lenses so that I may help do my part in restoring the world to its "rightful" state ;-) ;-) ;-)

J.