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Ah, I see you were talking about TWH.
However this does sound like something I would cringe at
There was also a brief television comedy series based upon Catch-22 made and televised in 1973, with Richard Dreyfuss in the starring role of Capt. Yossarian.
Larry Gelbart could have done it. But that's why he's a legend.
I'm sure they pitched it: M.A.S.H. meets Hogan's Heroes.
I'm with megan--The Alienist would make a great film, and it's too bad no one has managed it yet.
I totally agree. I listen to the audiobook (the abridgment read by Edward Hermann) a couple times a year. The images are so evocative, I feel as if I've already seen the movie!
I rented Vampires Suck to watch tonight, and once you put Matt Lanter in whiteface makeup, lipstick, and poufy hair it is surprising how reminiscent he is of Paul Rudd.
I am Jack's Calvin & Hobbes.
That? Is genius! Oh. My. doG!
Or, you know, tiger.
On an unrelated note, I finally saw Death Race 2000 (the original). Total 70's Corman cheese, but hilarious because Paul Bartel really could combine exploitation with hilarity (and just the right amount of social satire that the project required).
I got to admit, having seen Robert Beltran in Eating Raoul and Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (both later, more definitively satirical Bartel movies) really made it strange to see him turn up in ST: Voyager. It made that episode where he and Janeway got turned into lizards (or something) and mated a lot less hard to deal with, however.
I need to go back through the thread and look for True Grit posts, because oh my god, why didn't I know it was actually a movie about a badass girl?
Also: Rooster Cogburn abides.
t edit And the film's dialogue (and I understand much of it is straight from the novel) made me think, "When did American English get contractions? Because it must have been after whenever this was set."
No, but seriously. That was a long 90 minutes of oddly formal dialogue.
Tom's explanation for why he didn't read novels, just good literary criticism, killed me.
With novels, I can never forget that it's all made up, that it never really happened. (Paraphrased.)
That line made me laugh and laugh, because I have had the exact same conversation with a friend of mine who won't read novels.