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Charles Curtis

Richard Simmons doesn’t sound happy about the Pauly Shore movie about him, which … actually looks amazing

Pauly Shore — star of such classics as many an MTV show, Encino ManDream Date and Bio-Dome — might be having a big comeback.

And it involves him playing the great Richard Simmons, of Sweatin’ to the Oldies fame.

Yes, that’s right, a sentence I’d never thought I’d write, even in the early 1990s, when both of them were in the zeitgeist: Shore plays Simmons in Th Court Jester, a short movie about the man who was all about mental health and physical wellbeing and living your best life.

But the real Simmons — now retired — doesn’t sound happy about it, per a Facebook post:

The movie does look quite amazing, but I could get where Simmons is coming from if it was unauthorized:

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