sorry I wasn't clear - I wasn't disagreeing with you (haven't
read or seen "Poodle Springs") just saying that a casting
director wouldn't be able to resist the gimmick of a slightly
over the hill tough guy in the role - not that Caan looked
over-the-hill in "The Yards."
>My point wasn't that Caan wasn't (or Newman
wouldn't
>have been) well cast as an "aging Marlowe," only
that
>the "aging Marlowe" was a conceit of the film, not
the
>book.
>JIM DOHERTY
-
He got thirty years for lovin' her/ from some Oklahoma
governor,/ who said
"everything this doughboy does is wrong" - Tom Waits
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