Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: RARA-AVIS Digest V2 #298
James Rogers (jetan@ionet.net)
Sat, 23 May 1998 10:21:28 -0500 (CDT)
At 07:09 AM 5/23/98 -0500, you wrote:
mart-Aleck Killseries had Red Wind among the six.
>
>I guess I'm in the minority here, but I always thought
Boothe was too much
>a bruiser for the role. I dunno, you get an image of
someone in your mind,
>or in this case, a sort of body type, and it sticks.
Didn't Chandler say
>Cary Grant would be his choice? I like the idea that
someone rather slim is
>Marlowe, going up against all these gorilla-size thugs,
and I guess that's
>why Powell is still my first choice. But the Boothe
programs are pretty
>good, and supposedly a definite cut above the previous
series in 1959-60
>with Phil Carey, which was evidently just so-so P.I.
fare.
>
I'll join you in the minority camp. Didn't like Boothe as
an
actor.Could have changed the series name to "Mike Hammer" and
I couldn't
have told the difference. Missed Marlowe's humor, in my
opinion. As I
recall, Chandler's character was an ex-football player, so
the size of the
guy didn't bother me. Just everything else.
James
James Michael Rogers
jetan@ionet.net
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