Re: Colin Dexter - Service of All the Dead


"Annie C" <chernow2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Francis A. Miniter" <miniter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> | Mary wrote:
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> | >>> He is always describing love affairs between people whom
> | >>>one imagines to possess alluring physical qualities, but in the plays
> | >>>they more often look like worn out potbellied and unappealing
> | >>>middle-agers.
> | >>>
> | >>>
> | >
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> | >
> | >>You mean they look more like real life .
> | >>
> | >>
> | >
> | >Actually, I think I prefer the ones that look like real life. Having
> | >everyone be young and gorgeous is a bit too much like soap operas. I
> | >think of it as the Robert Parker syndrome. His descriptions of women
> | >always seem to be less a description of a real person and more a
> | >description of his own wet dreams.
> | >
> | >Mary
> | >
> | >
> | >
> | Alfred Hitch*** knew the power of using actors who looked like ordinary
> | people and places that looked ordinary. So did the producers of The
> | Twilight Zone. Even seeing these shows decades after they were made,
> | the dowdy housewife in a simple dress standing in the old-fashioned
> | kitchen with plain checked tablecloth and dark upright kitchen chairs
> | made the stories far more believable than they would be if the actress
> | were young and beautiful waltzing through her stainless steel kitchen
> | with gleaming white walls and brass and glass table and chairs.
> |
> |
> | Francis A. Miniter
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> Regarding Hitch***... I'd have to disagree about ordinary looking actors,
> at least when it comes to his films. (Did you perhaps mean the tv shows he
> did?) Think of the women he cast in films! -- all strikingly beautiful,
> mostly blonde, and, eerily, much like each other and of a certain 'type'.
> His fantasy women, perhaps. Grace Kelly, Kim Novak, Janet Leigh, Tippie
> Hedren, Eva Marie Saint. And the men? Cary Grant, Sean Connery, Jimmy
> Stewart, etc. Hmm, quite attractive guys.
>

Don't forget my favorite A.H. film. "Last night I dreamed I went to Manderly
again." Rebecca with Joan Fontaine and Lawrence Olivier. Hardly dogs in the
looks department. Take care,
--
Stanley L. Moore
"I used to think I was
indecisive but now I'm
not so sure."
"Indecision is the key
to flexibility."


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