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- From: wr001b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (william e raftery)
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- Subject: Re: Who'd make a goo Who?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.131059.21763@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 13:10:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.220530.11040@mail.cornell.edu> drh2@cornell.edu (Dave Horlick) writes:
- >In article <Bxv6xA.s3@news.cso.uiuc.edu> stevens jason,
- >jasstev@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
- >> ANOTHER MAJOR PROBLEM IS THAT THE MAJORITY OF THESE SUGGESTED ARE
- >AMERICAN.
- >> SORRY, BUT THE DOCTOR IS A BRIT, BE IT BY TRADITION OR JUST PLAIN ACTING
- >> ABILITY.
- >> THE CASTING OF AN AMERICAN TO THE ROLE IS THE CLOSEST THING TO
- >HERESY...BEWARE
- >> THE ODD FLASH OF LIGHTNING!!!
- >
- >Yeah yeah. And Peri is such a convincing American. What's the difference?
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- When you look at it, Peri may have been a preety good American at
- that. She was great for the fish-out-of-water bits, had the brain power of a
- gerbil (I apologize to all offended gerbils) and of ocurse as someone
- pointed out earlier was bouncing around all over the place with no support.
- Peri just needed a Californian Valley-girl airhead voice, and it would have
- been perfect.
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- >Would the doctor approve of such silly national distinctions? Frankly,
- >I'd like to see him played by James Earl Jones.
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- Amen to that. I have been a huge James Earl Jones fan since watching
- Dr. Strangelove. JEJ would be an excellent Doctor IMHO.
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- Bill
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