TMC
04-02-2002, 12:47 AM
> > NY Post
> > 3/29/02
> >
> > HOLLYWOOD TAKES A SECOND 'HONEYMOON'
> >
> > March 29, 2002 -- IT looks like New York City's
> > most famous bus driver, Ralph Kramden, will
> > ride again.
> >
> > Plans are underway to turn "The
> > Honeymooners" into a feature film with new
> > actors playing the roles made a famous by Jackie
> > Gleason and Art Carney.
> >
> > The movie, written by "Mad About You"
> > co-creator Danny Jacobson, is expected to be
> > about Ralph, Alice, Ed and Trixie Norton's actual
> > honeymoon.
> >
> > "We just don't want to replicate what was on the
> > original episodes," Jacobson told Daily Variety.
> > "But the one thing they never covered was the
> > actual honeymoon. and that is what we'll
> > concentrate on."
> >
> > It's still way too early to say who'll portray the
> > beloved characters played for years by Gleason,
> > Carney, Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph.
> >
> > Paramount Pictures and Deep River Productions
> > acquired the screen rights to "The
> > Honeymooners" from CBS.
> >
> > > The producers hope to quell comparisons
> > > between the movie and the popular show - so
> > revered it is still on the air 50 years after its
> > heyday - by creating a modern story around the
> > famous foursome.
> >
> > But producer David Friendly told the industry
> > trade that the show's signature lines and themes
> > will remain in the movie.
> >
> > "You can certainly expect to hear the term
> > 'Bang, Zoom' a few times," he said.
> >
> > "The Honeymooners" began in 1951 as a sketch
> > in "DuMont's Cavalcade of Stars" and later
> > jumped to CBS as part of "The Jackie Gleason
> > Show. "
> >
> > Gleason's whose fit-throwing Kramden coined
> > the phrases "Humminah, humminah,
> > humminah!" and "One of these days Alice. . . "
> > turned the sketch into regular series that ran from
> > 1955 to 1956 and has been in repeats ever since.
> >
> > All things Gleason are currently undergoing
> > something of a resurgence. Nathan Lane will star
> > as Gleason in "To the Moon," a biopic about the
> > big man.
> >
> > - Don Kaplan
> >
> > http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/40797.htm
> > 3/29/02
> >
> > HOLLYWOOD TAKES A SECOND 'HONEYMOON'
> >
> > March 29, 2002 -- IT looks like New York City's
> > most famous bus driver, Ralph Kramden, will
> > ride again.
> >
> > Plans are underway to turn "The
> > Honeymooners" into a feature film with new
> > actors playing the roles made a famous by Jackie
> > Gleason and Art Carney.
> >
> > The movie, written by "Mad About You"
> > co-creator Danny Jacobson, is expected to be
> > about Ralph, Alice, Ed and Trixie Norton's actual
> > honeymoon.
> >
> > "We just don't want to replicate what was on the
> > original episodes," Jacobson told Daily Variety.
> > "But the one thing they never covered was the
> > actual honeymoon. and that is what we'll
> > concentrate on."
> >
> > It's still way too early to say who'll portray the
> > beloved characters played for years by Gleason,
> > Carney, Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph.
> >
> > Paramount Pictures and Deep River Productions
> > acquired the screen rights to "The
> > Honeymooners" from CBS.
> >
> > > The producers hope to quell comparisons
> > > between the movie and the popular show - so
> > revered it is still on the air 50 years after its
> > heyday - by creating a modern story around the
> > famous foursome.
> >
> > But producer David Friendly told the industry
> > trade that the show's signature lines and themes
> > will remain in the movie.
> >
> > "You can certainly expect to hear the term
> > 'Bang, Zoom' a few times," he said.
> >
> > "The Honeymooners" began in 1951 as a sketch
> > in "DuMont's Cavalcade of Stars" and later
> > jumped to CBS as part of "The Jackie Gleason
> > Show. "
> >
> > Gleason's whose fit-throwing Kramden coined
> > the phrases "Humminah, humminah,
> > humminah!" and "One of these days Alice. . . "
> > turned the sketch into regular series that ran from
> > 1955 to 1956 and has been in repeats ever since.
> >
> > All things Gleason are currently undergoing
> > something of a resurgence. Nathan Lane will star
> > as Gleason in "To the Moon," a biopic about the
> > big man.
> >
> > - Don Kaplan
> >
> > http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/40797.htm