[Theepistle] Saintly Shots (fwd)

[Delmo Walters Jr.]

A musical? A Carry On Saint film? For someone who pissed and moaned over the scripts of the Roger Moore Saint series, seems like Leslie had some lousy ideas of his own.

Delmo Walters Jr.


--- On Wed, 1/21/09, Carolyn Gruske <be265 at torfree.net> wrote:

> From: Carolyn Gruske <be265 at torfree.net>
> Subject: Re: [Theepistle] Saintly Shots (fwd)
> To: THEEPISTLE at ogham.org
> Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 11:39 AM
> I tried to send this to the list once already, but I
> don't think it quite 
> worked. Here's the second try.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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
> >
> 
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