Why is the former Georgia congressman telling fans to pass?
It's one thing to do whatever movie they want to do, but to take a classic family show and do that is like taking 'I Love Lucy' and making her a crackhead or something. (ref)
Really, that seems like a pretty lame excuse! The original show was hardly aimed towards the family with Daisy strutting her stuff in shorts that barely covered her cheeks.
If they wanted it to be a family show, they would have put Daisy in a long skirt and parka -- at least something compatible with the Bob Jones University dress code. Also, they would never have allowed her character to use sexual allure as a means to an end.
According to the above quoted article, Jones owns Cooter's Place -- a store where show memorabilia can be purchased. The article does not say, but I would assume that Jones was not asked to be a part of the remake.
Sounds like sour grapes to me.
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Ben Jones actually kept open a garage and Dukes of Hazard museum in Sperryville, VA (about an hour north of C'ville) until sometime in 2003. I never went in, but I did drive by it once on a hiking trip during my first year of grad school.
There was also a "Cooter for Congress" campaign, as Ben Jones ran as a Democrat against a Republican incumbent named Cantor in the 7th Congressional District (north of the 5th District, where we're still stuck with Virgil Goode) in 2002. He lost, but it did mean that people were driving around with some pretty funny bumper stickers that year.
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