Bob Ames, proprietor of the excellent Bullets & Beer Spenser homepage, offers an early account of Parker at a signing for his Western Appaloosa.
Among the topics discussed were the TV versions of Spenser. Comments in brackets are mine:
On Robert Urich:
"Bob was not a good Spenser. He had no acting range, and no emotional tightness."
[Emotional tightness? Sounds unhealthy anyway.]
On Barbara Stock:
"I like Barbara Stock. If she was an actress I'd like her even better. She has since wisely gotten out of the business."
[That's just mean. That's mean, man.]
On Avery Brooks:
"He's not my Hawk, but he's a good Hawk."
On the contrast between the two Spenser actors:
"Urich was big but had a small range and had never read the books. Mantegna was small, but a good actor and had read all the books."
Parker's dislike of Spenser: For Hire is well documented, and he probably gets asked often and has to repeat these answers. Still, I'm laughing at the superior intellect.
1 comment:
Mr Parker has little room to bloviate about "range" given he's been repeating himself for lo, these many years now, AND he's getting some of his back story wrong in the later books.
When asked about his experiences with televisioin Mr Parker would do well to just smile nicely and say "the checks cashed well" It's churlish to sell rights to a work and then bitch about the results.
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