Nomeansno Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/nomeansno/ Sun, 08 Nov 2020 12:02:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14214807/cropped-cropped-media-47-1-32x32.png Nomeansno Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/nomeansno/ 32 32 Please Don’t Make A ‘Slap Shot’ Remake https://staging2.theplaylist.net/please-dont-make-slap-shot-remake-20090203/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/please-dont-make-slap-shot-remake-20090203/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:58:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=8705 The classic, 1977 George Roy Hill (“The Sting,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” ) hockey comedy, “Slap Shot,” starring Paul Newman is being remade by those goons in Hollywood fresh out of ideas. Peter Steinfeld is writing and a director is still being sought.

In “Slap Shot,” Paul Newman plays an aged, over-the-hill hockey player and coach who attempts to interest local fans by turning his players into a team of brawling thugs led by the trio of the pugilistic Hanson Brothers (So galvanizing were these louts they inspired Canadian post-punk trio Nomeansno to create an alter-ego band called The Hanson Brothers that played Ramones-style songs about girls, hockey and beer).

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