QUICKER THAN THE HUMAN EYE:  In honor of ALOTT5MA Unnecessary Remakes Week -- it just doesn't stop, does it? -- Academy Award nominee Eddie Murphy signed up today to provide the lead vocal performance in a live action/animated remake of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series Hong Kong Phooey.

IT'S THE FUTURE, AND KICKBOXING STILL ISN'T A MAJOR SPORT:  As (unofficial) ALOTT5MA Unnecessary Remakes Week continues, let's clarify what Cameron Crowe has said about a Say Anything sequel. Indeed, at TCA last week Crowe did confess:

It’s the only thing that I’ve written that I would consider doing that with. “I’ve thought about it from time to time and talked about it with John Cusack once and just said this is the only story that I kind of think there might be another chapter to that at some point.

But as Crowe's own website points out, in 2005 he dismissed the possibility:

I used to think for a while that it would be the one movie I’d do a sequel to, because there was more to be said about Lloyd. Then I went to see High Fidelity, and I thought, “You know what, that movie says a lot of the things that I would probably want to say in a sequel to Say Anything…, so congratulations, it exists.

And in the comments to that post, Crowe added: "I have to admit, it's a powerful thing to read the reactions to mentioning that I still think about those characters. I was always so inspired that Francois Truffaut kept returning to Antoine Doinel. If I ever did return to Lloyd, it would probably be a reflection on optimism... what survives, what doesn't, what happens when a great and true love arrives so early in your life... maybe it'll be a short story, or maybe it will have all ended with that ding."

I WAS THE BEST WALK-AND-TALKER IN THE WHOLE SHOW. AND EVERYONE WILL TELL YOU THAT [LAUGHS]: Allison Janney talks to the AV Club about her roles.

SPEAKING OF UNNECESSARY REMAKES:  The King's Speech: The Musical?

[Also from our Broadway Desk: lead casting is complete for the upcoming Evita revival on Broadway: Elena Roger, who starred in the recent London revival, as Evita; Michael Cerveris as Juan Peron; and Ricky Martin as Che Guevara the narrator, Che, who has nothing to do with any historical figure.]

ROBBLE ROBBLE  Did you know that back in the McDonaldland day, Grimace was much more mobile  and the Hamburglar was known as the "Lone Jogger"?  Below the fold, via Flavorwire, one of the creepier ads I've seen lately:

INSTANT KARMA:  Today's Boston Globe:

On Thursday, a group of Buddhists traveled to Gloucester and purchased 534 lobsters, about 600 pounds worth, from a wholesaler and dumped them back into the sea in a prayer ceremony in which the crustaceans’ bands were cut and blessed water was sprayed on them.

Freedom. But it may have been short-lived.

Yesterday, lobstermen from the fishing vessel Degelyse said they had traveled to the site of the ceremony, laid their traps, and hauled up exactly 534 lobsters...

[HT: The Awl.]

WHY I'M GLAD I'M NOT A WIZARD, BY A MUGGLE: At incredibly Jewish day camp today, one Jewish son of this non-Jew went looking for his ruach -- either his spirit or a traditional crescent-shaped pastry, don't ask me -- at a camp-created recreation of that holiest of Jewish places, Hogwarts. Children locating their Jewish identity were rewarded with essentially unwashable Sharpie tattoos of spectacles and the Devil's brand lightning-bolt scars. The kid was ecstatic. I didn't have the heart to tell him that it's much better to be a muggle than to be a wizard. Consider the plight of the magically inclined: