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- From: hhenderson@vax.clarku.edu
- Subject: Sayles and Lardner (was: John Sayles)
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- Organization: Clark University
- Date: 24 DEC 92 02:35:39 GMT
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- I wrote:
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- >> I've also decided to read some of Sayles' fiction, something I've
- >>been postponing for a while.
-
- Mark Taranto writes:
-
- >The only Sayles that I have read is PRIDE OF THE BIMBOS, which I mentioned
- >last week. I thought it a very good book, funny and sad. I think you will
- >enjoy it. Being a baseball fan and a sayles fan, you might also want to
- >read Asinov's EIGHT MEN OUT, and then rent the Sayles movie -- if you
- >haven't already done so.
-
- Actually, it was the movie _Eight Men Out_ that made me a Sayles fan. The
- movie was brilliant, in spite of its flaws. And Sayles' performance as Ring
- Lardner was nothing short of eerie. It was though he were born to play
- Lardner. He looked exactly like him, he talked and behaved (as I was told by
- those who knew) the way that Lardner talked and behaved. I suppose it's
- possihle that one of my problems with reading Sayles' fiction has been, when
- I start reading him, I expect him to be Ring Lardner. A hard act to follow.
- Then again, Lardner, while a brilliant storyteller, never directed movies.
-
- If any of you out there have not read Lardner, you're missing something.
- Seek him out.
-
- Heather
- HHENDERSON@vax.clarku.edu
-