BEWITCHED the movie

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I am unsure about Heather Locklear, I remember her as the Ball-Busting Amanda from Melrose Place, I just can not get that out of my mind.

Reese Witherspoon to me has the right look, like Elizabeth Montgomery, I think she was in her 20’s when Bewitched was starting.

Darrin had a wry sense of humor, and and he did do physical comedy, both of them. That is why Jim Carrey - to me he just has the look/attitude.

Both Reese Witherspoon and Jim Carrey would draw the movie goer, they have the name recognition.

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She wasn’t an important enough character to even cast, but some odd trivia: the actress who played her in the second half of the series was Kasey Rogers. She’s still alive, in her 70s, was interviewed by a 20something Bewitched fanatic who wanted to create a vehicle about Samantha’s son Adam, and the two ended up living together! I don’t know if it’s Harold & Maude or just THE ODD COUPLE, but c’est la vie.

More sordid BEWITCHED trivia: the twins who played Adam were adopted. As adults they did a search for their birth parents and learned they were the illegitimate sons of Tony Curtis. They .[URL=http://www.bewitched.net/adam.htm]look just like him.

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Speaking of Tony Curtis spawn, it’s a pity Jamie Lee isn’t a few years older or she’d be a cool Endora.

So, Samantha v. Voldemort (in his prime): who would win?

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For the record. Elizabeth Montgomery was born in 1933. The first season of Bewitched was 1963-64. Reese Witherspoon was born in 1976. Close enough.

And as good Jim Carrey is, I still see Anthony Edwards. Imho, that is one part that needs to be the “straight” man. No Dick Sargent jokes, please.

But the idea of starting the movie with Bill Paxson, then switching to Bill Pullman mid way, as suggested by kunilou, was brilliant.

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Jim Carrey can be Uncle Arthur. I still maintain Darren has to be the straight man.

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Oh, I was wrong. Someone more awful for the role than either Meyers or Sandler. Jim Carrey, loathesome creature…

See, Darrin’s gotta be played by a straight man. He’s the foil, not the source of comedy, and none of these nitwits can play it straight for the duration of an entire movie if their lives depended on it (I was going to say “if their souls depended on it” but based on the fact that they all have careers I gotta think their souls were sold off long ago). I see someone along the lines of Timothy Bottoms who did such a fine job portraying our feckless leader.

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Dick York and then Dick Sargeant was cast as Darrin because they could do comedy, they were funny guys, playing it straight.

Jim Carrey to me looks like Darrin and he’s good with comedy and can also play it straight.

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Yeah, but the audience will expect him do do something wacky or funny. Darrin is not without a sense of humor, but he is not particularly funny.

And I’m not so sure the movie actors need to look just like the TV actors. To me it’s about the persona/vibe thing. That’s why I’ve got Morgan Freeman as “my” Larry Tate. He’s got to “kiss ass” and maintain his dignity at the same time. He’d be great.

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I just read on USA TODAY.com that Nicole Kidman wants to play Samantha in the Bewitched movie, and either Jim Carrey (I hope)or Mike Myers as Darrin. No other casting news to report.

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All this talk about Darrin-as-straight man is incomprehensible. Dick York used very broad comedic techniques to great effect, with his bug-eyed double takes, his volcanic rants, and his wilting embarassment when victimized yet again by Endora, et al. Yes, he was the butt of the jokes, but to pigeonhole him as a straightman, like Abbot to Costello, or Tommy to Dick Smothers, is a misunderstanding of the term “straight man” Dick Sargent maybe; but Dick York was no straight man.

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Of course, I meant Dick Smothers as straight man to Tommy. Sorry.