Ned Fleming (ned@cjnetworks.com)
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 23:58:18 GMT
Bill Crider wrote:
>I don't know how many fans of Stephen Hunter's books
about Bob the Nailer we
>have here, but I just read that Keanu Reeves has
signed to star as Bob in a
>movie called SHOOTER, based on POINT OF IMPACT.
Another example of
>Hollywood's genius when it comes to casting a movie.
Keanu fits my image of
>Bob almost exactly.
I see Bill Crider has a sense of the absurd. I rewatched
Branagh's interpretation of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About
Nothing" this last weekend. Reeves' Valley Girl accent
slathered like ersatz Grey Poupon from Sam's Club on top of
Elizabethan English was just barely short of a Jerry Lewis
performance. At least Michael Keaton realized he was making a
fool of himself and played it to the hilt.
Bob the Nailer, indeed. That would take someone with the
stature of a Glen Campbell or a Jerry Reed.
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