Don't mind us. We're just over here shaking our heads yet again at the nostalgia-tampering antics of today's writers and producers. The USA network plans to pay homage to the 1984 John Hughes teen angst classic, Sixteen Candles. The sequel will be called... 32 Candles.

The made-for-TV film will take place around original protagonist Sam Baker's 32nd birthday and hopes to update the lives of as many original characters as possible. Currently, no one tied to the original has agreed to participate in this remake, although writers David A. Newman and Keith Merryman and producers Buffy Shutt and Kathy Jones (who, incidently, also produced the 2002 surf-girl flick, Blue Crush) hope to involve Anthony Michael Hall (the original Farmer Ted), since he is already affiliated with the USA Network, as star of its original series, The Dead Zone.

Children of the '80s the world over weep for the vestige of their filmic legacy.