That Natty Bumpo had more nicknames than even Spike could dream up. Hawkeye, La Longue Carabine, Leatherstocking, Pathfinder, Deerslayer...
That's right! I'd forgotten all those nick names - all so colorful and descriptive too... Yes. Spike would have appreciated them. As a matter of fact, I can see the young boy William thrilling to JFC's books in Victorian England. Perhaps Spike's penchant for nicknames can be traced in part back to Cooper's early influence!
I also loved the American answer to Upstairs, Downstairs, which was a very short-lived series called Beacon Hill. Wish they'd had VCRs then to record it, but no such luck. I think I must have been one of five people who saw it.
So, that must have been you, me, and three others then *g*. Amazing how so many crap series have been successful when most of the truly substanative, quality ones are shot down.
Possibly the best thing I've ever seen on TV is Dennis Potter's Pennies From Heaven.
Wow. I'll have to look for that. I've only seen the Steve Martin version from back in the 80s, I think.
As much as I adore Bernadette Peters the movie boar only the most superficial reselemblance to the original BBC series. To be fair, it may had some merit as a light, entertaining film with an element of pathos thrown in but it's hard for me to judge. I only saw it on TV long ago and I don't believe I lasted through the half way point, let alone the end. I know that I said I could enjoy a quality production of something that already existed as a definitive creation in an earlier incarnation. But the movie was so light, and fast and...two dimensional that it just pained me to watch it. I haven't seen the movie version of Singing Detective starring Robert Downey Jr, who I like very much and have much respect for as an actor, but I suspect I'd feel the same way. (You didn't mention if you'd ever seen or heard of that one.)
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Date: 2006-01-15 05:28 pm (UTC)That's right! I'd forgotten all those nick names - all so colorful and descriptive too... Yes. Spike would have appreciated them. As a matter of fact, I can see the young boy William thrilling to JFC's books in Victorian England. Perhaps Spike's penchant for nicknames can be traced in part back to Cooper's early influence!
I also loved the American answer to Upstairs, Downstairs, which was a very short-lived series called Beacon Hill. Wish they'd had VCRs then to record it, but no such luck. I think I must have been one of five people who saw it.
So, that must have been you, me, and three others then *g*. Amazing how so many crap series have been successful when most of the truly substanative, quality ones are shot down.
Possibly the best thing I've ever seen on TV is Dennis Potter's Pennies From Heaven.
Wow. I'll have to look for that. I've only seen the Steve Martin version from back in the 80s, I think.
As much as I adore Bernadette Peters the movie boar only the most superficial reselemblance to the original BBC series. To be fair, it may had some merit as a light, entertaining film with an element of pathos thrown in but it's hard for me to judge. I only saw it on TV long ago and I don't believe I lasted through the half way point, let alone the end. I know that I said I could enjoy a quality production of something that already existed as a definitive creation in an earlier incarnation. But the movie was so light, and fast and...two dimensional that it just pained me to watch it. I haven't seen the movie version of Singing Detective starring Robert Downey Jr, who I like very much and have much respect for as an actor, but I suspect I'd feel the same way. (You didn't mention if you'd ever seen or heard of that one.)