Director Marc Lawrence has moved on from romcoms such as Two Weeks Notice and Music and Lyrics to parachute his time-honoured prenuptial routine into the bosom of marriage itself.
Nevertheless, he soldiered on, still toured the world regularly to great acclaim, came up with a hit from time to time, and seemed to be settling into his establishment-honoured role as a living legend, until 1987.
"I think he would feel very honoured," his son, Gary Kilbride, said.
Pte Beaney's great niece Irene Ingles, who lives in Gosport in Hampshire, said her family were "very proud and honoured" his image was chosen for the project.
I think he'd be thrilled and certainly his family are very honoured and thrilled that 51 years after his death he should be remembered in this way".
In fact, his native city was only intermittently his place of residence; on the other hand, his intellectual home throughout his life was one in which Plato was never his compatriot but an honoured guest.
"Brian is very excited and honoured," said his spokesman, before neglecting to add, "Brian really doesn't know what's going on and the Wondermints do all the on stage legwork anyway".
Just a few years later, however, his hard-won and honoured status in American letters began to unravel.
He grows up to be a fearless drug lord and a vicious leader of a guerrilla group, while his brother becomes an honoured priest.
Via his official Facebook page, Bieber stated that he was "truly honoured" to have his music covered on Glee.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, who was born in 1723 and died in 1792, was the most famous and honoured artist of his time, a figure so central to British art history that his statue still greets visitors to the Royal Academy.
