Jerry Buck (PeteCastle@worldnet.att.net)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 21:55:43 -0700
> So was Rod Taylor, for that matter, but you don't
hear him getting beat up
> about it nearly as much as ol' Sam. Maybe it's
because Taylor had Theodore
> Bickel as Meyer. Perfect casting offsetting awful
casting or
> something like
> that. But that (about Bickel) is just my opinion.
Unless we want to start
> playing the idiotic "let's cast this novel" game,
maybe we ought to admit
> that the linearity of most movies precludes any
character with reasonable
> depth being translated to the satisfaction of all.
Maybe any.
>
> It works both ways, of course.
>
> Can you imagine a ROUTE 66 novel?
> PB
Casting was
not the big problem with THE EMPTY COPPER SEA. It's that when
they finished screwing around neither Travis McGee nor John
D. MacDonald was recognizable.
Jerry
Buck
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