Here's an interesting, short, letter to president-elect Bush from Mikhail Gorbachev on foreign policy (via lia on metafilter - discussion).

We weren't far into 'Notorious' before we realized the plot had been lifted for 'Mission:Impossible 2'! It makes us think even less of the latter movie. What's more, we couldn't find anything in their publicity about stealing the plot. It had to be left to the critics. Anyway, 'Notorious' was a good movie. It was kind of a nice change to see Ingrid Bergman playing a drunk tramp instead of a princess (of course they took that out of the M:I2 plot).

Can you name any reworkings of original plots that actually turned out good or better? (additional discussion on Metafilter)