-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Beaver <
jumblejim@prodigy.net>
>Sent: Apr 14, 2006 9:48 PM
>To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Bezzerides
documentary
>
>>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Terrill Lankford" <
lankford2000@earthlink.net>
>>>To: <
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com>
>>>Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 12:18
AM
>>>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Bezzerides
documentary
>>>
>>>
>>>>I saw Bezzerides in person two weeks ago
at the paperback show in West
>>>>Hills. He's very old, very frail, but
very alive. I'd love to see this
>>>>documentary.
>>>
>>>--------
>>>It's playing Wednesday April 12 at 7:30 at
the Egyptian Theatre in
>>>Hollywood, as part of the American
Cinematheque Film Noir festival, along
>>>with "Thieves Highway," written by
Bezzerides. I'm thinking of going.
>>>
>>>The full schedule for the Film Noir festival
is at
>>>
http://www.egyptiantheatre.com/archive1999/2006/FilmNoir2006.htm
>>>
>>>Jim Beaver
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks, Jim. I'm going to try to move some
things around so I can go as
>> well.
>>
>> And speaking of Jim Beaver, I just wanted to
mention (possibly for a
>> second time) how terrific he was as the lead in
the THE LION IN WINTER at
>> Theatre West in Hollywood. Heidi and I caught
one of his last perfomances
>> in the play and it was fantastic. I don't know
if there are any plans for
>> another run in the future (Jim?), but if it
happens and you're within 500
>> miles of the venue, you should go. The play
itself has hard boiled and
>> noir attributes and the perfomances were all
excellent, with Jim tearing
>> the roof off the joint in a number of
scenes.
>>
>> I thought I posted a message here a few weeks
ago about his outrageously
>> great performance, but I'm not sure it ever hit
the list. If it did, my
>> apologies for the redundancy, if it didn't, my
apologies to Jim for being
>> technologically lame.
>>
>> TL
>
>Thanks for the rave review, Terrill! My goodness! I
wish you worked for
>the L.A. Times. (She loved the performances but used
her first three
>paragraphs to complain about what a rotten play LION
IN WINTER is. LION IN
>WINTER!!!)
>
>Unfortunately, I nodded off at the wheel as far as
the Bezzerides
>documentary. Forgot all about it. I really wanted to
catch it. Was it
>worth the nickel?
>
>Jim Beaver
>
>
>
More like nine bucks, but yes, it was worth it. The
documentary was very cool and the movie playing with it,
THIEVES' HIGHWAY, even better. (Anyone who hasn't seen this
movie is really missing out on a treat.) I think part of the
doc can be found on the Criterion release of THIEVES'
HIGHWAY. I hope the full version makes it to DVD sometime
soon. George?
TL
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