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nuranarMore Mutt-ley pictures here: The Singing Marine, Part 2
So Monday I receiveda pudding a beautiful present, made of a suitable material, from the Tree herself. (That is, beloved_tree.) Thank you, dear! :D And your card arrived yesterday!
By the way, I don't think I ever thanked you for sending those two books earlier this fall - Leigh Brackett's The Long Tomorrow and the I Spy book. And thereby hangs a tale. Because I've heard about the I Spy books, that they're really pretty good, and the author always wished that he'd written under his own name instead of under the pseudonym John Tiger. I'd been intending to track one down but just haven't made it. Well... frankly, it was so cringe-worthily-awful it was downright unbelievable! (Well, it wasn't that bad.) Considered just as a story, an adventure-spy story, it was slow, wordy, and very lacking in action. As a companion to the I Spy TV show, it was a huge failure. It had no mood at all, much less the quick-changing humor and concentration and even anger of the show, besides being slow and wordy and action-less (all very unlike most I Spy). Only in a few conversations did it approach the brilliant, ad-libbed repartee between Scotty and Kelly. And the epithets drove me up the wall! How many times can you repeat "the Rhodes scholar" or (this is awful) "the agent with the face of a movie star"?! I have never cringed like that before. And when he wasn't using epithets (which was rare), they were "Robinson" and "Scott." Sorry, but nobody thinks of them that way. They're "Kelly" and "Scotty" and always will be. Aaah!
But anyway, Aspen dear, Thank You! :D I really appreciated (besides the fact that you saw it and thought of me! Squee!) the opportunity to read one. And now I know for sure, I certainly do! I may try another again, of course; I still love those guys. I'm also still in disbelief that I found it that bad, I who so thoroughly enjoy Captain Future, etc., AND adore I Spy! *giggles a trifle hysterically*
So Monday I received
beloved_tree.) Thank you, dear! :D And your card arrived yesterday!By the way, I don't think I ever thanked you for sending those two books earlier this fall - Leigh Brackett's The Long Tomorrow and the I Spy book. And thereby hangs a tale. Because I've heard about the I Spy books, that they're really pretty good, and the author always wished that he'd written under his own name instead of under the pseudonym John Tiger. I'd been intending to track one down but just haven't made it. Well... frankly, it was so cringe-worthily-awful it was downright unbelievable! (Well, it wasn't that bad.) Considered just as a story, an adventure-spy story, it was slow, wordy, and very lacking in action. As a companion to the I Spy TV show, it was a huge failure. It had no mood at all, much less the quick-changing humor and concentration and even anger of the show, besides being slow and wordy and action-less (all very unlike most I Spy). Only in a few conversations did it approach the brilliant, ad-libbed repartee between Scotty and Kelly. And the epithets drove me up the wall! How many times can you repeat "the Rhodes scholar" or (this is awful) "the agent with the face of a movie star"?! I have never cringed like that before. And when he wasn't using epithets (which was rare), they were "Robinson" and "Scott." Sorry, but nobody thinks of them that way. They're "Kelly" and "Scotty" and always will be. Aaah!
But anyway, Aspen dear, Thank You! :D I really appreciated (besides the fact that you saw it and thought of me! Squee!) the opportunity to read one. And now I know for sure, I certainly do! I may try another again, of course; I still love those guys. I'm also still in disbelief that I found it that bad, I who so thoroughly enjoy Captain Future, etc., AND adore I Spy! *giggles a trifle hysterically*
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Date: 2007-12-20 03:11 am (UTC)I definitely have to do some icons from these caps, in a week or two. (I have *koff* a little bit of writing in mind first, for a good cause. *g*)
The cable let me tape an Allen movie this morning, in fact--and guess what? It turned out to be the source of the Mugs icon. :D Great fun to see him sling Joan Crawford around a dance floor!
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Date: 2007-12-20 02:04 pm (UTC)Ooh, that's fantastic! That icon is giggle-makingly-perfect. And wow - that sounds like a sight to see!
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Date: 2007-12-21 02:36 am (UTC)A large part of Allen's photo gallery at Simply Classics is a series of stills from this dance scene, though--and I think they are more technically revealing.
(I'm inordinately fond of that icon, myself. Crawford is doing something I would desperately love to do with any of my boys. *g*)
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Date: 2007-12-20 06:25 am (UTC)Branded novels are tricky things, as I've learned from my habit of collecting movie novelizations. Some are pretty good, and some -- as you see -- are . . . not so pretty good :P But you're welcome, all the same! ;)
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Date: 2007-12-20 02:06 pm (UTC)You make a habit of it? You're a braver man than me, Charlie Brown! :D