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>From:
BaxDeal@aol.com
>Sent: Nov 12, 2007 9:41 PM
>To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Eight Million Ways to Die-the
movie & others
>>>
>
>I've got a copy of Stone's script that was actually
pretty true to the book.
> I had never read Block before. Stone's script is
actually what got me
>started
>
>the movie that got made was transplanted to L.A., and
Scudder became a member
>of the L.A. County Sheriff's office. Andy Garcia is
the bad guy. Rosanna
>Arquette I believe, plays an annoying shrew (go
figure) . there's a lot of
>screaming IIRC. it's not Block's Scudder, which is
okay if it works on its
>own terms. my recollection is that it doesn't. Hal
Ashby, talented as he
>was, was not a crime or thriller director. I suspect
someone came in and
>rewrote after Stone, but not enough to get
credit
>
That would be Robert "Chinatown" Towne, believe it or not.
David Lee Henry also worked on the script.
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