RARA-AVIS: Parker in Slayground

From: Jiro Kimura ( jkimura@nsknet.or.jp)
Date: 01 Apr 2002


Parker in the movie version of SLAYGROUND played by Peter Coyote is not Parker, but Stone. Some reference book says that Coyote plays Parker, but I saw the video version of SLAYGROUND and Coyote is called Stone, not Parker.

The writer who got burned by Hollywood was John Ball. He sold his Edgar-winning novel IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT and his character Virgil Tibbs. After the first one starring Sidney Poitier became a hit, Hollywood made two Virgil Tibbs sequels withoug Ball's permission.

Jiro Kimura

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