Erick,
Re your question below:
> Was not William Peterson the star of To Live
And
> Die In LA? Ties
> back to the discussion of book to movie
conversions
> -- pretty faithful in my
> view (from the Gerald Petievich book). And
talk
> about HB!
He did play the T-Man in the film version of TO LIVE AND DIE
IN L.A. However, I have to disagree that this was a faithful
adaptation.
The book featured two different sets of Secret Service agents
on the trail of the same counterfeiter. One set, the
character played in the film by Peterson, and that
character's partner (I can't remember the names); the other
set, a veteran T-Man on the verge of retirement.
The Peterson character and his partner are willing to break
any rules, written and unwritten, to get their quarry. The
veteran pretty much goes by the book.
SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT
In the end, the Peterson character is dead and his partner is
headed for prison. The veteran, sticking to his ethics, has
made the case that the two hot dogs, throwing out the rule
book, weren't able to make.
END SPOILER ALERT END SPOILER ALERT END SPOILER ALERT
The film completely scuttles the concept of juxtaposing of
the two sets of agents competing to arrest the same criminal.
In fact, the veteran agent, though he appears in the film, is
killed very early on
(he's depicted as the Peterson character's first partner and
this murder supposedly is what fuels his determination to get
the bad guy by any means, moral or immoral).
The characters all meet ends that are quite different from
the ones in the book.
The differences between the film and the book are
particularly interesting given that Petievitch wrote
(or at least is credited with writing) the screenplay.
JIM DOHERTY
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