Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Parker

From: Rene Ribic ( rribic@optusnet.com.au)
Date: 20 May 2002


> >Brian,
> >
> >Re your comment below:
> >
> > > I would love to read a story that featured Hawk as
> > > the central
> > > character. It could be very interesting if done
> > > right.
> >
> >When the original SPENSER FOR HIRE TV series went off,
> >the replacement was a show entitled A MAN CALLED HAWK,
> >with Avery Schreiber continuing sans Robert Urich. I
> >never saw it, so I can't comment on whether or not it
> >was "done right," but the concept has bee tried, at
> >least on television if not in books.
>
> Him Jim,
>
> I recall that show. Never saw it. I loved Avery Brooks in both
Spenser:
> For Hire (which overall was a BAD, eviscerated rendition of Parker's
> characters), and in Star Trek: Deep Space 9. He is a tremendous
actor.
>
>
Never read the Parker books but I recall the two TV series, & IIRC the Hawk series was even more tedious than the Spenser series, IMO.

Rene

--
# To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to
# majordomo@icomm.ca.  This will not work for the digest version.
# The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 20 May 2002 EDT