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That Obscure Object of Desire:

The Hollywood Remake

A note from Jennifer
For awhile on the Web there was a feminist erotica site called Ripple Effects. The organizers wanted to field ideas for a new kind of film, and my bid was for a distaff remake of That Obscure Object of Desire, Luis Buñuel's last and classiest classic.

They don't seem to have hung around long enough to act on my suggestion, so I'm left with a small set of possibilities....

Wally!Anyone who's seen enough work by the prolific Wallace Shawn will know there's more to him than the wily Grand Nagus of Deep Space Nine, his throwaway roles in pointless sex comedies like Nice Girls Don't Explode, or any number of variations on the whiny curmudgeons he's typecast in for everything from Murphy Brown to Columbia Tristar's Nickel & Dime.
More Wally!There are enough Web pages on his roles in The Princess Bride and Toy Story, you might think they were his only films! Yeah, yeah, we all know about My Dinner With Andre, but get a load of him as leading man in Tom Noonan's The Wife or Malle's Vanya on 42nd Street!
He's snotty enough to be the perfect choice to replace Angela Molina as one-half of the title role!

Take Carole Bouquet's nose and hair, grow a man around them and you've got Fabio! There's the other half of that equation...

Who's to replace Fernando Rey? Only Conchata Ferrell has the horse sense and stamina. She's always playing the no-nonsense professional woman behind some kind of counter, from Network to Mystic Pizza.
She can stand up to both these guys at once and here's why: The No-Fail Conchata Ferrell Delivery! Guesting on an otherwise forgettable sitcom, she played a woman so ornery that once she died and went to Hell, she refused to stop pestering her fellow workers. When asked what Hell was like she replied evenly, "It's not so bad, but that Hitler guy's starting to get on my nerves." Perfect!

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