[Theepistle] Saintly Shots (fwd)

[Carolyn Gruske]

I tried to send this to the list once already, but I don't think it quite 
worked. Here's the second try.

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Ian wrote:
Subject: RE: [Theepistle] Saintly Shots

> Carolyn,
> 
> I'm glad you enjoyed the piece.
> 
> To my mind it reads quite rushed, but then that's because it's basically a
> synopsis of my Charteris biography - but even that doesn't give me the word
> count to explore every avenue I'd like to do down!!
>

Actually I quite liked the flow and the pacing of the piece. It seemed nice and 
light and bouncy -- much in keeping with some of the pacing Charteris himself 
used.

Of course you couldn't get all the details you wanted into the piece, that's 
always impossible. There is always something that gets left out that you want 
to include, but just remember, only you the writer knows what you excluded. We 
can only judge based on what made it to the page (or the computer screen).

> I'm surprised no one's raised a Moore-like eyebrow and pondered "What if..."
> Leslie's plans for a Saint musical had come to fruition. Perhaps I should
> have mentioned Leslie's discussions for a "Carry on Saint" movie...
> 
> Ian

All I'll say on the topic is that I'm joyous with glee that the musical version 
never saw the light of day. That said, I'm sure that if Leslie were still 
around and were watching the trend of Hollywood to Broadway adaptations that is 
going on right now, he'd be pulling the old script out of the bottom draw of 
his desk, and then we'd be talking about the Kilmer movie as one of the better 
contemporary adaptations.

As for a saintly Carry On movie, I guess it be shown on a late night double 
bill with the Peter Sellers version of Casino Royal. Mind you after these two 
revelations, I'm almost surprised you didn't mention a Hope and Crosby Road 
To... version as well.


Carolyn

> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carolyn Gruske [mailto:be265 at torfree.net]
> Sent: 20 January 2009 18:11
> To: Ian Dickerson
> Cc: Mailing list of the Saint club
> Subject: Re: [Theepistle] Saintly Shots
> 
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Ian Dickerson wrote:
> 
>> It's finally up...
>> 
>> http://www.shotsmag.co.uk/features/2009/l_charteris/l_charteris.html
>> 
>> Ian
>> 
> 
> Ian,
> Let me offer my congratulations and my thanks. Congratulations on
> producing such a well written article, and thanks for giving us all a
> little more insight into Mr. Charteris himself.
> Well done.
> Carolyn
>