Ed,
Re your comments below:
> All best for your mother's surgery.
Thanks. Mom came through the surgery safely and is now in
ICU. Her recovery will be long so she's not out of the woods
yet, but she can see the clearing through the trees.
Thanks to everyone at Rara-Avis who offered prayers and who
sent words of encouragement on and off-site. They were very
much appreciated and, aside from the help they gave Mom,
which I'm convinced was considerable, they were a big help to
me.
> Quick
> question: What do you think of the "new"
> Dragnet series coming to TV? Will it
measure
> up to the original Webb?
I'm hopeful that it will be at least as good as Wolf's LAW
& ORDER franchise on NBC. I doubt it will measure up to
Webb at his best. Certainly it won't be as innovative in 2003
as it was in 1951, but it probably will be better than Webb
at his nadir, which is to say the last couple of seasons of
the 67-70 color series.
I'm not altogether thrilled about casting Ed O'Neill as
Friday. Although he's a good actor (he did a very good job in
Gene Hackman's role in a TV version of POPEYE DOYLE; and was
fine as a cop in last year's short-lived TV series BIG
APPLE), but there's no denying that he's carrying a lot of
baggage thanks to MARRIED . . . WITH CHILDREN. And at 56,
he's more than ten years older than Webb was when Webb
started doing the revival, let alone the original
series.
I'm not really familiar with Danny Huston, who was originally
cast as Friday, but he looked good in pictures, and he's the
right age (late 30-ish, early 40-ish) for the part. And he's
John Huston's son and Angelica Huston's kid brother, which
seemed like pretty good hard-boiled credentials to me.
Frankly, though, if it was up to me, I'd've cast Miguel
Ferrer.
Unlike a lot of y'all, I'm not a big fan of criminal
protagonist stories, so, whatever happens with DRAGNET, I'm
pretty sure I won't be tuning in its competition,
KINGPIN.
JIM DOHERTY
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