I recorded the documentary but I haven't had a chance to sit down and
watch it yet. However, I plan to do just that this weekend. I'll let
you know how it is very shortly thereafter.
Best,
Harry
Quoting Kevin Burton Smith <kvnsmith@sbcglobal.net>:
>
> On Jul 7, 2008, at 5:52 AM, rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I thought I would pass along the fact that tonight at 8 p.m. on Bravo
>> (at least in Canada) there is a one hour documentary called CAPTURING
>> COOPERMAN all about Howard Engel and his Benny Cooperman series. It
>> apparently will focus on his return to crime writing following
>> suffering a stroke.
>>
>> Could be quite interesting...
>
> I'll say.
>
> The backstory of Engel's last Cooperman, THE MEMORY BOOK, is even
> better than the book itself, and possibly the best example of writerly
> true grit I've heard in years. Forget boozing, cussing, climbing
> mountains to shoot tigers or posing in a leather jacket with 43 guns
> to prove how tough they are -- let's see these little boy poseurs try
> and pull a Howard.
>
> Not that the Cooperman books are truly hard-boiled, at least by the
> sliding standards of this list -- (his character was played by Saul
> Rubinek on TV, after all) but I've always felt there was an underlying
> toughness to the character just dying to be really explored...
>
> I'll have to keep an eye out for CAPTURING COOPERMAN on Bravo! down
> here.... but in the meantime, bookedtv has a new interview with Engel
> at http://www.booked.tv/html/podcast/choose5.htm
>
> How was the show?
>
>
> Kevin
>
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