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WCT April 12-16
jwhouk:
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...Clearly we older gentlemen have nothing better to distinguish us than our facial hair. I think Jeph just hasn't had enough practice with guy faces - we've got Marten, Angus, Sven and Wil (neither lately), and Steve (who's practically a cameo) along with a few other brief visitations (Amir, Mike, and...Dale?), and with the exception of Mr. Bianchi, who's rather cartoonish, they're all young.
He needs more practice. Especially with older dudes.
I'll selflessly volunteer to be a recurring character.
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We'll name him, "Carly Stu"! :-D
And I would have to bet that Faye was using the back room of the store as her "lab" for creating Rexpresso tm.
raoullefere:
--- Quote from: Akima on 16 Apr 2010, 20:52 ---
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 16 Apr 2010, 16:58 ---*A damned fine show, despite (or because?) of the casting. Rex would've been proud.
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It was a good show, but I thought Timothy Hutton was terrible as Archie Goodwin. Rex Stout's Goodwin cracks wise for sure, but on a granite-hard bedrock of physical and mental toughness that Hutton totally missed. Maury Chaykin on the other hand was the best Nero Wolfe in any adaption.
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I thought the tone of the whole show was a trifle lighter than Stout's tales (for the most part—some of the short stories were a little silly, too). Also, even though he narrates, we get less of Archie's thought process than we do in the novels, and I think that's where some of that inner toughness flows from. Chaykin also plays Wolfe with a slightly lighter touch than the character exhibits in the novels, or again, at least, in some. At any rate, they beat hell out of Lee Horsley and William Conrad, whom I quite liked in Cannon, but not as Wolfe.
Anyway, it's one series I really need to buy, if ever I have the spare bucks. Scenes like the one where Inspector Cramer 'storms' the brownstone to the music of "Go Big Daddy!" are priceless.
Carl-E:
I read a lot of Nero Wolfe when I was much younger, and recently rediscovered them as books on CD (I have to drive a lot). The ones read by Michael Prichard are fantastic - his vocal characterizations of both Archie and Wolfe are spot on, and they're unabridged, so you lose none of the character or locale details.
I got my daughter hooked on them, and can't recommend them enough - they're wonderful detective tales, and at the same time, amazing little time capsules!
Schmorgluck:
--- Quote from: J on 16 Apr 2010, 17:52 ---possible, but more likely she simply did not have a suitable workspace. metal sculpture is generally not something you can do in an apartment bedroom. of course that does raise the question of where and when she built the Rexpresso tm since we haven't seen her in any sort of studio, or any indication that she owns any tools.
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The more important question it raises is how she actually burned down her former appartment building.
akronnick:
That's an interesting point, while she did say she was making toast, she did not specify what kind of toaster she was using.
Perhaps her former toaster was the prototype for a giant steel pterosaur shaped meqa-toaster.
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