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In Hollywood, they say that there are no new roles—only new faces to fill them.1 Debbie Reynolds validates this observation in telling the tale of how Eddie Fisher left her for Elizabeth Taylor in 1957.2 She was the sweet blonde, the “girl next door.” He was the heartthrob who swept her off her feet. Liz was the dark-haired beauty who could seduce any man with a magnetic glance in his direction. Nearly 50 years later, the scenario repeated with striking correspondence through modern-day counterparts Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie.
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Braudy, Leo, “Afterward: Rethinking Remakes,” in Play it Again, Sam: Retakes on Remakes, Horton, Andrew & McDougal, Stewart, Y. (eds.) (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999), http://www.ucpress.edu/op.php?isbn=9780520205932. Accessed June 9, 2013.
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Pfefferman, R. (2013). Introduction: The Encore Impulse. In: Strategic Reinvention in Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137373199_1
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