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# Fug the Concept: Idina Menzel in Beaches
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fug-the-concept-idina-menzel-in-beaches-08-2016/
- Published: 2016-08-18T20:00:38.000Z
- Updated: 2016-08-18T17:26:31.000Z
- Author: Heather
- Tags: fugs, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 07:49

Photos emerged today of Idina Menzel in Canada shooting *Beaches*.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2016/08/ffn_jking_beaches_filmset_081516_52148776.jpg "Idina Menzel")

Yes, that's a remake of the Bette Midler/Barbara Hershey movie. It's a Lifetime joint -- I laughed out loud when [the Daily Mail so calmly said it's "being made for a reasonable budget"](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3744304/Nia-Long-joins-Idina-Menzel-remake-classic-80s-Bette-Midler-film-Beaches.html?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) and I certainly HOPE they got those terrible boots at a deep discount-- and Idina is joined by Nia Long. I think... I just remember *Beaches* SO WELL. It was all the rage when I was a kid, as one of the most bona-fide weepies of its era. I loved it, flaws and all. I can't imagine a need to remake it. (Will they have Mayim Bialik wander through a scene in the background?) But I don't know that I necessarily consider it an inviolate movie, either; if they remade *Back to the Future*, I would THROW DOWN, but *Beaches* I can handle. Maybe *Beaches* itself was a little Lifetime the first time around, assuming you blot out the whole Otto Titsling number.

Anyway, on this late-ish summer Thursday, tell me: Do you care? Are you horrified, alarmed, eager? And what movie DO you consider remake-proof? Buzzfeed mentioned fantasy-casting a *Clue* remake on Twitter the other day, and asked what your ideal cast would be. I applaud this reaction:

> Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Michael McKean, Eileen Brennan, Christopher Lloyd, Lesley Ann Warren, and Martin Mull. [https://t.co/OKJCAOE1Ep](https://t.co/OKJCAOE1Ep?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)
> 
> — Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) [August 17, 2016](https://twitter.com/JarettSays/status/766022825282908160?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)

Exactly. NO THANK YOU. YOU CANNOT REMAKE A PERFECT MOVIE.

\[Photo: Fame/Flynet\]