In fact, I think the books are naturals for a television
series. A frothy,
tongue-in-cheek half hour show or a gleefully
politically-incorrect summer
flick. I envision a sort of Get Smart, P.I. type thing. Years
ago, I think
Bill Murray would have been great as Shell. Now, I guess,
they'd have to go
with Jim Carrey, but it would still be a hoot. Also a
pipedream, though,
since most folks wouldn't have a clue that it was a spoof,
since there's
nothing much on television or in the theatres anymore it
could be
considered a spoof of....
Which is a shame. It's disheartening to see the slim pickings
television
offers us in the way of P.I. shows. Once the only thing more
common than TV
private eyes was TV cowboys, and now they both seem to have
almost totally
vanished. Even the slightest shows of the sixties and
seventies would stand
tall among such froth as Dellaventura or Charlie Grace. (A
glance at the
results of the poll on my site so far tell the story...I
mean, Magnum P.I.?
I realize not everyone is an old fart like me, but...Magnum
P.I.?)
At least there's the always-challenging, literate Homicide,
which recently
wrapped up for the season, possibly the only hardboiled crime
show left,
now that NYPD Blues has become a sort of Days of Our Lives
with badges,
bullets, pot bellies, the emotional crisis-of-the-week and
the
seemingly-obligatory, gratuitous shot of a hairy butt in the
last five
minutes.
But I digress....
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Kevin Smith
The Thrilling Detective Web Site
http://www.colba.net/~kvnsmith/thrillingdetective/
Vote for The Best and the Worst of the TV Eyes-in this
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