Topic: THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR OF THE MISSING DAY (Read 20858 times)

Matt H. · « **Reply #30 on:** August 22, 2006, 08:13:51 AM »

Other fictional favorites:

Sherlock Holmes

Miss Marple

Hercule Poirot

Kinsey Milhone

Kay Scarpetta (but not lately)

Matt H. · « **Reply #31 on:** August 22, 2006, 08:14:34 AM »

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Page Two Dance!!![/move]

Matt H. · « **Reply #32 on:** August 22, 2006, 08:16:57 AM »

I want to finish the special features on the ADAM & STEVE DVD today. I do want to get to last night's premiere of VANISHED at some point (it's being rebroadcast by Fox tonight for those who missed it and want to catch it).

I recorded Joan Crawford's SUSAN AND GOD today off TCM and want to see it again (and make a DVD-R from it).

Matt H. · « **Reply #33 on:** August 22, 2006, 08:20:21 AM »

Thanks, DR derBrucer, for illuminating those closing moments of THE CLOSER for me. I really didn't follow exactly what was happening.

But that led to the question which is maybe why I was having a hard time piecing together what was happening: Would a proud police officer who was a stickler for the rules have his ego and dignity mollified with a mere medal? I guess that's what threw me. I didn't think there was any way Brenda wasn't going to have to fill out those accident reports.

Matt H. · « **Reply #34 on:** August 22, 2006, 08:21:47 AM »

Next-to-last episode of RESCUE ME coming on tonight. Last week concluded with two tragedies which appeared to be fatal to two regular characters. Will be interesting to see exactly how those events play out.

Ben · « **Reply #35 on:** August 22, 2006, 08:22:46 AM »

Jack, have you heard of Mabel Maney and her wonderful take offs on the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series?

Here are some links

The Ghost in the Closet

Not-So-Nice Nurse

Mabel Maney

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #36 on:** August 22, 2006, 08:32:33 AM »

For Larry:

From Nancy Pickard

Quote

I Owe It All to Nancy Drew by Author Nancy Pickard

The award-winning author of the Jenny Cain mysteries pays tribute to "our bright heroine" as she first appeared in 1930 in The Hidden Staircase.

When I was ten years old, I wrote: "I will be happy if I can have horses, solve mysteries, help people, and be happily married." In that order. For thirty years after that, I forgot on any conscious level about that wish list. When I finally came across it again, I was forty years old, married to a cowboy, doing volunteer work, and writing murder mysteries.

The child was, indeed, the mother to this woman.

It's easy enough to figure out why I wanted to "have horses" -- doesn't almost every adolescent girl dream of riding Black Beauty? Growing up in the fifties made it de rigueur for me to want to "be happily married," and being a college student in the sixties made it nearly obligatory for me to want to "help people." But whence the desire to "solve mysteries"?

That's easy, isn't it?

I read Nancy Drew. Didn't you?

Sometimes I think I owe it all to her -- my career, my amateur sleuth heroine, most of whatever finer qualities I may possess, even my blond hair, blue eyes , and my name. Nancy Drew was (almost) everything I wanted to be when I grew up: intelligent, self-confident, incredibly courageous, honest, straightforward, kind, courteous, energetic, successful, and independent. I confess that I also wished I were well-to-do and beautiful, just like Nancy. Granted, it's possible that she could have used more of a sense of fun and humor, and it cannot be denied that in her language and attitudes she reflected the white, middle-class, Christian prejudices of her day, but I'd rather blame those failing on her creators. I like to think that had Nancy but known, she never would have thought, spoken, or behaved in those ways.

Recently, for the first time since I was a girl I read the original version of The Hidden Staircase. First published in 1930, it may be the most famous and the most fondly remembered of any of the Nancy Drew mysteries. In 1959 the story was republished in a rewritten edition that drastically altered both the plot and the characters. If I had a daughter, the original version is the one I'd want to pass on to her. It is the edition I will give to my son.

der brucer

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #37 on:** August 22, 2006, 08:37:19 AM »

DR: Elmore: Revisionists proliferate these days. Some even believe themselves to have created some of the things they revise. Change a few notes and an opera by Mozart can become a new work by Joe Blow. And the only nod to the original becomes, "Based on an opera by Mozart."

Yeah, right.

And almost always, they shoulda stuck to the original.

Matt H. · « **Reply #38 on:** August 22, 2006, 08:37:55 AM »

Guess I'll go tend to a few things and then start preparing lunch.

WBBL.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #39 on:** August 22, 2006, 08:38:23 AM »

Quote from: JRand55 on August 22, 2006, 08:09:17 AM

However I think an amalgamation called The Nancy Boys would have been my faboo favs!

Right up there with "Tom Swift - with illustrations by Tom of Finland"

der Brucer

Tom Swift needed a female counterpart - Susie Easy?

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #40 on:** August 22, 2006, 08:39:35 AM »

Authorship: I wrote a story called "The" back in 1968. Since then, the word has been plagiarized 765, 235, 463,982 times...and counting.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #41 on:** August 22, 2006, 08:41:40 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on August 22, 2006, 08:37:19 AM

And the only nod to the original becomes, "Based on an opera by Mozart."

Or in the case of "RENT!", "wretchedly ripped from an opera by Puccini"

der Brucer

elmore3003 · « **Reply #42 on:** August 22, 2006, 08:46:28 AM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on August 22, 2006, 08:41:40 AM

Or in the case of "RENT!", "wretchedly ripped from an opera by Puccini"

der Brucer

As a big fan of RENT, I have to say the Disney AIDA treats Giuseppe Verdi and his librettist far worse.

PennyO · « **Reply #43 on:** August 22, 2006, 08:53:20 AM »

TOD - I loved early Columbo.

In re: the Mozart rip-off's ... LONE STAR LADIES is completely ripped off from Cosi Fan Tutte... all the same characters (in new professions), all the same situations (the boys ride off to war at the Alamo... and come back disguised as Mexican Mariachi singers), Despina (now the lady bartender/Madam of the upstairs brothel - which is how she happens to know so much about men..) diguises herself as a Traveling Snake Oil Salesman... and on and on. It actually is quite hilarious - but ALL the music is pure Mozart.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #44 on:** August 22, 2006, 08:54:06 AM »

TOD:

Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle

Philip Marlowe by Raymond Chandler

Sam Spade by Dashiell Hammett

Paul Pine by Howard Browne (writing as John Evans)

Elvis Cole by Robert Crais

Harry Stoner (Cincinnati Detective) by Johnathan Valin

Marcus Didius Falco (Roman Detective) by Lindsay Davis

Nicholas Bracewell (Elizabethan Detective) by Edward Marston

Philo Vance by S.S. Van Dine

Ed and Am Hunter by Fredric Brown

Toby Peters (detective to the studios) by Stuart Kaminsky

DakotaCelt · « **Reply #45 on:** August 22, 2006, 08:54:34 AM »

Good day one and all...

A brief hello before I head to work...

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #46 on:** August 22, 2006, 08:56:33 AM »

Depression May Strengthen Into Tropical Storm Debby

Good Lord - I hope we don't get "Debby Does Delaware!"

der brucer

bk · « **Reply #47 on:** August 22, 2006, 09:01:42 AM »

I'm up, I'm up. Many e-mails this morning, none of which I answered. So, have to do that shortly.

bk · « **Reply #48 on:** August 22, 2006, 09:02:25 AM »

No e-mail, however, from David. It may still be coming though, so I'll wait until noon.

DakotaCelt · « **Reply #49 on:** August 22, 2006, 09:04:50 AM »

TOTD

Inspector Morse (John Thaw)
Albert Campion (Peter Davison)
DCS Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren)
Sherlock Holmes... (Too many different actors to name but my favorites are Tom Baker and Basil Rathbone)
Miss Marple (Joan Hickson comes to mind though several women have played her. )

PennyO · « **Reply #50 on:** August 22, 2006, 09:05:14 AM »

And, of course, Sherlock Holmes!

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #51 on:** August 22, 2006, 09:05:28 AM »

Quote from: PennyO on August 22, 2006, 08:53:20 AM

TOD - I loved early Columbo.

In re: the Mozart rip-off's ... LONE STAR LADIES is completely ripped off from Cosi Fan Tutte...

And whree does one find LONE STAR LADIES? The only thing I got searching was "Lone Star Ladies Motorcycle Rally" - sounds like fun, but not Mozartian.

der Brucer

PennyO · « **Reply #52 on:** August 22, 2006, 09:08:06 AM »

I love the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, and even bought some DVD's of the old Basil Rathbone films. Lots of great actors have played that character, but I'm still partial to Basil. I'll watch those films over and over again.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #53 on:** August 22, 2006, 09:11:01 AM »

Quote from: DakotaCelt on August 22, 2006, 09:04:50 AM

TOTD

Inspector Morse (John Thaw)
Albert Campion (Peter Davison)
DCS Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren)
Sherlock Holmes... (Too many different actors to name but my favorites are Tom Baker and Basil Rathbone)
Miss Marple (Joan Hickson comes to mind though several women have played her. )

Can we add "The Mrs Bradley Mysteries" with Diana Rigg (adapted from novels by Gladys Mitchell).

der Brucer

PennyO · « **Reply #54 on:** August 22, 2006, 09:13:03 AM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on August 22, 2006, 09:05:28 AM

And whree does one find LONE STAR LADIES? The only thing I got searching was "Lone Star Ladies Motorcycle Rally" - sounds like fun, but not Mozartian.

der Brucer

I'll send you the libretto! It was one of my more successful decompositions... had two productions.

Florrie and Dorrie, the Lone Star Ladies, were two dance hall girls, in love with a couple of singing cowboys... (it's why everyone was always bursting into song...) The boys played poker with the Sheriff, Big Al; one time he made them a bet that if they pretended to ride off to war, their gals would fall for the next two hombres who walked into the saloon... boys pretended to ride off to fight at the Alamo, came back disguised as Mexican mariachis - who didn't speak Spanish.

PennyO · « **Reply #55 on:** August 22, 2006, 09:13:42 AM »

Florrie is a bit of an alcoholic, Dorrie is a compulsive eater...

Ginny · « **Reply #56 on:** August 22, 2006, 09:14:04 AM »

DR Elmore - I always wondered what happened to your idea for a Nancy Drew musical - now I know!

PennyO · « **Reply #57 on:** August 22, 2006, 09:14:57 AM »

There's a video of one production - somewhere...

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #58 on:** August 22, 2006, 09:18:19 AM »

Quote from: PennyO on August 22, 2006, 09:08:06 AM

I love the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, and even bought some DVD's of the old Basil Rathbone films. Lots of great actors have played that character, but I'm still partial to Basil. I'll watch those films over and over again.

How about Moses? He (Heston) played Sherlock in "Crucifer of Blood" - which I saw in LA. (A performance which, if memory serves, DR Pogue held not in high esteem.)

der Brucer

PennyO · « **Reply #59 on:** August 22, 2006, 09:20:26 AM »

Don't recall that performance. But whatta voice!

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