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...familiar. Perhaps it's because the repetition of a fairy tale--or one told from a different angle--validates an underlying message: that in a world full of knotty menace, someone who cares will always be there to tell us the same story and rock us into sweet dreams...
...video markets to extend a movie's shelf life, studios briskly recycled many of their properties. RKO filmed Raymond Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely as an episode of the low-budget Falcon series in 1942 and then remade it as an A picture (Murder, My Sweet) two years later. In predigital days, directors like Cecil B. DeMille, Leo McCarey and Alfred Hitchcock didn't go back and "improve" their old movies, as Lucas did with Star Wars or Spielberg with E.T. They simply remade them 15 or 20 years later...
...sweet memory for a film executive may be prehistoric to the kids Hollywood wants to woo. As Chris Rock says about The Longest Yard, "It's a 30-year-old movie. The young movie audience doesn't know it even existed. For those people, [the new one] is just its own movie." Besides, he asks, what's wrong with a remake? "[Plenty of] Hendrix songs are remakes, and the first couple of Beatles albums had a lot of somebody else's songs...
...with a 200-year-old brew that used rose hips. Her Honey Amber Rose is only 110 calories per bottle and carries a logo of a Latin-looking woman in a broad-brimmed red hat and a red dress with folds resembling a rose. "If you want to taste sweet success," the bottle says, "look for the woman in the rose-petal dress...
...Next Gold Mine: Midlife as an IndustryFrom coast to coast, women of all backgrounds are essentially opening up the Great Midlife Lemonade Stand, taking the bitter taste of aging and making it sweet, satisfying. This is both noble and shrewd. Women like helping other women, and as it happens, just as women reach their moment of self-doubt, they also ripen into the perfect market segment. "You can make a ton of money," agrees Shellenbarger. "Let's face it. These women with their fat pocketbooks approach the age of 50 and lose their inhibitions. Imagine that! That...