As several readers have pointed out, the advantage of a remake is you’re getting a proven hit title, but, if Madonna remakes Casablanca set in Iraq, presumably she’ll have to change the title.

But what do I know? Up next: Oklahoma!, but set in Iraq; WKRP In Cincinnati, but set in Iraq; San Francisco, but set in Iraq, and with the earthquake changed to an Abu Ghraib gang-rape by a visiting Bush cabinet officer; A Tale Of Two Cities, neither of which is in Iraq.