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        <title><![CDATA[March of reboots continues with ‘Nutty Professor’ and ‘Pinocchio’]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ron Howard&#8217;s Imagine Entertainment is cranking out a Lucille Ball/Desi Arnaz documentary. It has the family&#8217;s OK. It&#8217;s Amy Poehler&#8217;s directorial debut. It will be called — surprise! surprise! — &#8220;Lucy and Desi.&#8221; So far not one human exists who hasn&#8217;t yet grabbed a doc except maybe Biden. Once they figure out what the hell he does, he&#8217;ll get one, too.</p><p>Every used-to-be&#8217;s getting reborn. In 1963, we had Jerry Lewis in &#8220;The Nutty Professor.&#8221; Not something you&#8217;d put down your Bible study to watch. It got re-cranked in &#8217;96 starring Eddie Murphy. And now — wow! — we&#8217;re in luck! The remake&#8217;s getting a reremake. Perhaps Murphy will again play multiple roles. I mean, is that exciting or what? Next comes garter belts and stockings with seams.</p><p>Everything new is old again. Like &#8220;Pinocchio.&#8221; We had it/him in 1911, 1936, 1940, 1957, 1965, 1967, 1968 and a few nostrils in between and since. Comes again the same saga of the same long-nose liar (not to be played by anyone in the Democratic party). This one&#8217;s John Turturro, Tilda Swinton, Christoph Waltz, Cate Blanchett, director Guillermo del Toro. I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s great — but nobody&#8217;s seen it, and I hate to lie if I don&#8217;t have to.</p><h3>Confidentiality at risk</h3><p>Seeing disloyal ex-Trumpers filling dumpsters with their books, a front-page attorney who is also a law professor says: &#8220;Michael Cohen — disbarred, disgruntled, convicted of criminal fraud, jailed, now under house arrest — telling all in a book? For cash? For vengeance? … Attorneys take an oath with intent of loyalty. Fearing what this lawyer now did, will future clients in jeopardy ever tell all? … Doubtful Trump will sue.</p><p>Imagine what Cohen might dredge up at the trial — book stuff he might&#8217;ve left out. A consigliere&#8217;s advice, in whom you have entrusted your deepest secrets, everything needful for advice, must be taken to his grave … Disgruntled, inner-circle pols — not favorable to Donald and with their own axes to grind — might call Cohen&#8217;s betrayal a patriot act. But he&#8217;s damaged the profession. Now how can a future client trust confiding all to his lawyer? They&#8217;ll withhold in fear.</p><p>&#8220;Nothing this former trusted adviser knew frees him ever to report what he thinks he knows. And for getting even? A guide, an adviser, a confidante, a trusted counselor is now selling treachery? This will decimate the legal profession.&#8221;</p><h3>Yeezy could do it</h3><p>Remember Rolling Stone? The mag&#8217;s editor now wants an expert who knows today&#8217;s biggies, future maybes, has journalism experience, hip-hop know-how, R&amp;B influence, plus electronic, Latin, K-pop, social media and music-industry sources. They&#8217;ll let him or her rep them on interviews. How about maybe Kanye West? Having muffed the White House, he could send a résumé.</p><h3>Doc appreciated</h3><p>In this era of no patriotism, a note is sent to Dr. Daniel Baker — whom many famous faces now call Earth&#8217;s No. 1 cosmetic surgeon — from an Army major in 1968&#8217;s 3-17 Cavalry in Vietnam. It reads: &#8220;We wondered why one man — from a prestigious medical family and who could&#8217;ve chosen to shun service — was here. Admired, highly respected, he was the unit&#8217;s surgeon for we who flew aircraft. An elegance about him, he worked tirelessly with pilots, flight crews and all in the squadron. He was one of us.</p><p>&#8220;You knew he&#8217;d do great things once back in the States. And he did. Surgically reattaching a girl&#8217;s hand, which had been severed in an accident.&#8221;</p><p>Dr. Baker: &#8220;What a surprise. I&#8217;d not heard from him in 50 years. His letter brought tears.&#8221;</p><hr /><p>Not to be heard at tonight&#8217;s convention: &#8220;We now bring you a man who is clever, shrewd, adroit, cunning and street smart — he&#8217;s a crook, that&#8217;s what he is.&#8221;</p><p><em><strong>Muttered only in New York, kids, only in New York.</strong></em></p>]]></content:encoded>
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