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The ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ Show Improves on the Movie — Really

If you were alive and consuming entertainment news in 2005, you may remember Mr. & Mrs. Smith as one of the year’s biggest stories. Actually, it was one of the previous year’s biggest stories, too, rumors having started swirling while it was still shooting about sparks between its stars, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. As we now know, those rumors proved true: Pitt’s then-wife Jennifer Aniston filed for divorce three months before the movie premiered, and the next year, Jolie was pregnant with Pitt’s child. (The less said about the dark end their story has come to, the better.) Curiosity about the project that could have split up an adorable Hollywood couple propelled Mr. & Mrs. Smith to huge box-office success, and in our risk-averse entertainment environment, that makes this almost-20-year-old title a comparatively safe one for a TV series remake. 

How ‘Groundhog Day’ Pissed Off Its Small-Town Hosts

It’s almost Groundhog Day, that annual event when Western society takes its meteorological cues from a sleepy rodent for some baffling reason. While Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania may host the most famous Groundhog Day celebration, in recent years it’s seen some competition from Woodstock, Illinois, the town that stood in for Punxsutawney in the classic comedy Groundhog Day. Woodstock now holds an annual festival that lasts for several days, presumably to stave off any pesky time-loops. 

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