I had heard that someone was making a third remake of . . .

Rating: 9/10 (3 January 2018)

. . . A STAR IS BORN, and I think that it is a stroke of genius for director\star James Franco to dispense with the shop-worn Janet Gaynor\Julie Garland\Barbra Streisand title and opt in favor of the less ironic and more apt heading for his project, which also uses the device of ingenious gender-neutral casting: THE DISASTER ARTIST. Among other winning moves on Franco's part is dragging this tired tale out of its ruts into Our 21st Century by adding to the usual STAR IS BORN-type yarn Gay undercurrents, themes of sexual harassment, and cutting-edge insights slicing through the idiocy of America's Monied Class. The latter point makes it clear why the USA's People's Studio--Warner Bros.--successfully bid to distribute THE DISASTER ARTIST. So far no one has produced a script which more accurately epitomizes the so-called Administration of current U.S. Strongman Vlad Putin. All it would take to convert THE DISASTER ARTIST into something perfectly analogous to our present-day Real Life Travails is stirring in a few thousand irrational Tweets to the stew of "Tommy's" madness. But when you really think about it, wouldn't you prefer to have DISASTER ARTIST Mr. Wiseau's finger on America's "Nuclear Button" then the tiny digits hovering over it now?