# word game: pitch a remake for Lifetime or Oxygen channels

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [April 29, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-pitch-a-remake-for-lifetime-or-oxygen-channels/447397 "2008-04-29T21:22:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![a\_bee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce73a5/32.png) [@a\_bee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a_bee)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-pitch-a-remake-for-lifetime-or-oxygen-channels/447397/1 "2008-04-29T21:22:25Z")

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Those chick-flick channels need titles with a feminine spin.  
So let’s help them out. (No strict rules to this)

[The first three came from today’s The LA Times crossword]

Dustina Hoffman in “Little Big Woman”  
Roberta Donat in “Goodbye Mrs. Chips”  
Cindy Poitier in “To Ma’am With Love”

I’ll pitch these:  
Marian Brando in “The Godmother”  
Jane Fonda in “Twelve Angry Women”  
Annette O’Toole in “Laura of Arabia”  
Meredith Baxter in “Of Mice and Women”

[sub][Note to mods: This is a word game thread, not about cinema, not about cafe society. Thanks][/sub]

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-pitch-a-remake-for-lifetime-or-oxygen-channels/447397/2 "2008-04-30T04:59:13Z")

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I thought the formula was

1. Get some has-been actor who USED to be an aspiring sex symbol on an old TV show as the villain.

2. Have him stalk some middle-aged actress who USED to be a TV star as a kid or teenager.  
So… Brian Kerwin stalking Valerie Bertinelli?

Wil Wheaton stalking Danielle Brisebois?

John Schneider stalking Missy Gold?

Adrian Zmed stalking Soleil Moon Frye?

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**Author:** ![a\_bee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce73a5/32.png) [@a\_bee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a_bee)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-game-pitch-a-remake-for-lifetime-or-oxygen-channels/447397/3 "2008-05-01T15:41:17Z")

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**astorian** :eek: Try to focus. I know you can do this. The “formula” for this word game is not about real TV, but following the lead of the examples:

1. Take a movie with a title having a word denoting male gender
2. Change the word to denote female gender
3. Pick a female name for the star
4. I suppose you could add the one line summary if that makes it more interesting
5. Hilarity ensues, or at least a some time is killed while waiting for the next coffee break
6. If I’m the only one who comes up with these then it may be a short thread but I will have had fun.😃

Mary Beth Hurt in “The Elephant Woman”

Shirley Jones in “No Country for Old Women” - The Partridge family finds a couple dead bodies, some dope, and is run out of Nashville

Drena De Niro in “Raging Cow” An emotionally self-destructive milkmaid’s journey through life