----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Powell" <
bleekerbooks@hotmail.com> To: <
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, September
24, 2004 6:37 AM Subject: RARA-AVIS: RE: Deadwood
> >I caught the first episode of DEADWOOD (by the
people who do "The
>>Sopranos") on Sky here in the UK on Tuesday. I'm
sure you get it in
>>North America too, Sky being Sky.
>
> Listmember Jim Beaver also has a role - as the
judge? I don't get HBO,
> and
> I can't remember.
I play Ellsworth, the prospector (or as I like to describe
him, Gabby Hayes with Tourette's Syndrome). It's a prominent
part but not overwhelmingly so in the first season. We're
shooting the second season now, and the part (as well as the
show itself) is headed for much bigger things. What creator
David Milch is after here is the story of civilization in
microcosm. He started with a place completely outside the
bounds of law, where literally ANYTHING was allowed, and he
is detailing the arrival and effect of law, government,
civility, prosperity, and the attendant chicanery necessary
to circumvent those things. I think by the time this show has
run its course, it will be epic in nature. Yes, I'm biased,
but I've been doing this stuff for thirty-two years, and a
lot of it feels like junk compared to what I'm part of
now.
I hear rumors that parts of the Deadwood set were used for
the filming of the Yojimbo-Red Harvest variation known as
Last Man Standing.
We shoot not near Palm Springs, but about fifteen miles north
of Los Angeles, at the old Gene Autry Melody Ranch studios in
Newhall.
Jim Beaver
------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor
--------------------~-->
$9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything.
http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/kqIolB/TM
--------------------------------------------------------------------~->
RARA-AVIS home page: http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rara-avis-l/
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email
to:
rara-avis-l-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 24 Sep 2004 EDT