Repeat performance

By Katherine MacColl

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TAKE a hit 1970s TV series, add a bit of 80s music and top it off with three Hollywood babes, and you've got all the makings of a box-office smash. But, do we really want yet another update on an old favourite What ever happened to new ideas, fresh scripts and unknown talents

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But, why should Hollywood gamble on a new script from a little known author It can easily nick someone else's idea, dress it up in current fashions, add some special-effects and a little post-feminist irony, and flog it to a nostalgia-hungry audience who think the 70s were not the decade that time forget, but the epitome of retro-chic

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Charlie's Angels is one of a string of successful 1970s show featuring strong-limbed ,big-haired girls with attitude. They blazed a trial for female action heroines like Ripley in Alien, and Linda Hamilton's hard-bodied, gun-toting performance in Terminator 2.

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The big screen version, is the latest in a lengthening line of Hollywood remakes of TV hit shows: including The Brady Bunch, The Fugitive, The Avengers and The Saint.

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Like all those films before it, Charlie's Angels takes an original set-up and locates it in our time. But, are�you tiring of the remake business Do you want to see more original product Click here

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