Hollywoodland: “Valley of the Dolls” gets a remake (!?!?!?) and Joe shows his wang (?!?!?!?)

In Hollywood News, two things we’ve heard in the last couple of days that have excited us.

One, Deadline Hollywood has the poo that Precious filmmaker (and out gay dude) Lee Daniels is adapting the beloved camp classic Valley of the Dolls for a new TV series to potentially air on NBC. It would be the 4th film version of Jacqueline Susann’s monstrously successful novel after the original classic film version with Patty Duke and Sharon Tate, and two not so successful television versions.

This could be awesome, and it could also be a disaster. We loves the original book and movie, but how are they going to turn this material, concerning pill addiction, alcoholism, excessive amounts of cigarette smoking, mental illness, abortion, and lots and lots of sex into fare fit for broadcast television? The major networks tend not to feature those kinds of subject matter in our politically correct society; only HBO and other cable outlets can get away with that amount of boozin’, sexin’ and pill poppin’.

Also: who gets to scream, “I’m Neely O’Hara!” in an alley?

The second piece of LaLa Land News concerns True Blood hottie Joe Manganiello  and his (hopefully) big penis. We’ve yakked about Magic Mike, the Steve Soderbergh directed film based on the early days of actor Channing Tatum and set in the world of male strippers in previous posts. It’s currently filming in Florida, and the Intertubes are buzzing about the hunky cast: Mr. Tatum, Mr. Manganiello, Matt Bomer, Alex Pettyfer, and Matthew McConaughey and speculation that at least part of the cast will give us “The Full Monty”. A recent interview with Mr. Manganiello who plays a character named, “Big Dick Ritchie” SEEMS to imply that the actor is giving us full frontal, which has excited a lot of peeps, but if you read the article closely, it never says that DIRECTLY. I hate to be a buzzkill, but this is a major motion picture with big name actors and this is Puritanical America…until I see that big schlong on the silver screen, I’m not completely swallowing this rumor…though, I’d like to.

Update: In a new interview with E! the actor is more coy about the rumors he’s letting the rooster out of the henhouse:

“You’ll have to go see the movie opening night and find out,” Joe teased. “Can’t let that out of the bag.”

In other words, this means: “NO! We’re just cock teasin’ y’all so you’ll come see the movie…”