Re: RARA-AVIS: *The Dain Curse* TV adaptation
James Rogers (jetan@ionet.net)
Sat, 13 Mar 1999 09:54:57 -0600 (CST)
At 08:49 AM 3/13/99 -0500, you wrote:
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> In a recent post about trade paperbacks, James Rogers
wrote that:
>
> " . . . as a youth working in a bookstore, I "stripped"
100 copies of
> the Vintage Books _Dain Curse_. It had been released as
a tie-in with
> a Jason Robards television mini-series . . .
."
>
> The 3-part TV-movie version of *The Dain Curse* starred
James Coburn,
> not Jason Robards, as the Continental Op. Clearly
chosen less for his
> physical resemblance to the character than to the
character's creator,
> this connection was heightened by giving the Op a name,
"Hamilton
> Nash," which is, of course, "Dashiell Hammett" spelled
. . . uh . . .
> sideways . . . sort of. - Jim Doherty
>
I guess that's right.....must be getting it confused with
Robards
appearance as Hammett In _Julia_, which I think was around
that time.
James
James Michael Rogers
jetan@ionet.net
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