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With all due respect to our West Coast brother site's repeated declaration that "Hollywood is Out of Ideas," we took great interest in a recent spec script sale listed on Done Deal (aka, the bitter would-be screenwriter's homepage).

Eileen Walls' revoltingly titled Who's Your Momma, about "a group of bored and frustrated suburban mothers form a garage band and begin to write and perform songs about the often-ignored realities of motherhood" just sold for $750,000 against $1.25 million to Twentieth Century Fox.

If that log line sounds familiar, you were probably a fan of Off-Broadway theater in the '80s, when A.M. Collins and Chad Henry's punky rock musical Angry Housewives played to packed—albeit tiny—houses. Here's a description from a 2002 revival in an Oregon theater:

This crazy production is a musical comedy in which four stressed and depressed wives opt out of welfare, diaper changing and unemployment to Rock out in the Punk Revolution! Funny, feminist and furiously entertaining, these women rock in a musical loaded with comedy, satire and (if you watch closely) pathos.


We can still recall the refrain from "Eat Your Fuckin' Corn Flakes": "Eat 'em! Or wear 'em!" Plus, Angry Housewives is a much better title than Who's Your Momma.

Angry Housewives: The Musical Comedy [The River]
Who's Your Momma [Done Deal, scroll down to 2/11/05]