pabergin (pabergin@gte.net)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 21:36:15 -0400
Bill Crider writes:
<<Jerry Buck: Very interesting and entertaining post
about Stirling Silliphant, and I agree with you 100% about
what he did to Travis McGee. Elliot was all wrong for the
part,>>
Well, sure.
So was Rod Taylor, for that matter, but you don't hear him
getting beat up about it nearly as much as ol' Sam. Maybe
it's because Taylor had Theodore Bickel as Meyer. Perfect
casting offsetting awful casting or something like that. But
that (about Bickel) is just my opinion. Unless we want to
start playing the idiotic "let's cast this novel" game, maybe
we ought to admit that the linearity of most movies precludes
any character with reasonable depth being translated to the
satisfaction of all. Maybe any.
It works both ways, of course.
Can you imagine a ROUTE 66 novel? PB
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