RE: RARA-AVIS: Harper about to come on - TCM

From: Mark Sullivan (DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net)
Date: 21 Aug 2010

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    They changed Archer's name to Harper at Newman's request, who felt H titles were lucky after his success in Hud and Hustler (and later Hombre). Mark

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    > From: pbjk2004@yahoo.co.uk
    > Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:28:07 +0000
    > Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Harper about to come on - TCM
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    > They're showing 'The Drowning Pool' on a UK television station next week. I saw
    > it on its first release but can't recall much about it now -- not a good sign,
    > usually.
    > 'Harper' was released here as 'The Moving Target' which I believe was the title
    > of the Ross MacDonald Lew Archer novel upon which it was based. I never could
    > understand the reasoning behind the name change for movie purposes, but no doubt
    > those clever all-knowing marketing guys had their reasons.
    > I think originally the makers had intended adapting Chandler's 'The Long
    > Goodbye' with Robert Mitchum as Marlowe but failed to get the green light on the
    > project, so they made 'The Moving Target' instead with Paul Newman not
    > resembling Lew Archer any more than Elliott Gould did Marlowe in Robert Altman's
    > art movie subversion of Chandler's themes.
    >
    > Patrick
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    > From: "funkmasterj@runbox.com" <funkmasterj@runbox.com>
    > To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
    > Sent: Sat, 21 August, 2010 22:25:14
    > Subject: RARA-AVIS: Harper about to come on - TCM
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    > It will be my first time seeing it. I did enjoy Twilight.
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