Here is a pretty important interview that I missed, Robert Englund, talking about the Elm Street remake and the man who took his place, Jackie Earle Haley.

"I'm real happy with Jackie. I'm a fan. I've been a fan of Jackie since Breaking Away. My Vietnam movie [Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder] was with Dennis Christopher, and Dennis Christopher's the star of Breaking Away. (In fact, I think he won the British Academy Award for that movie.) So I've seen that movie several times and I've talked a lot with Dennis about it, and the making of it. And I just love Jackie's work in that. He really was one of the first people who ever had the opportunity to discuss the American class system in a movie. The townie versus the "other" – the interloper, the rich kid, the preppie – that comes to town. And then of course I know him from Bad News Bears and then more recently, obviously, Little Children, and then Watchmen. And although I'm not a big fan of Watchmen, I am a big fan of Jackie in that film..."

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