Posted by Mick Scannell on May 06, 1999 at 07:46:38:
In Reply to: Re: Honorable mention posted by Dean McMillan on April 22, 1999 at 01:52:04:
: >I'll even eschew projects by other Vance aficionados. Not all labors of love are beautiful...
: You'll eschew but--while you do--a production company feckless of consequences will have gutted a Vance book; lifted its spinal action up from the flesh of luminous being; then blathered, slathered it to mediocrity, no bucks going to the Vance estate.
: It'll happen. Just you wait.
If I understand correctly, 'Ports of Call' did pretty well in the States. Imagine, if you will, the result if Dreamworks got their schmaltzy mitts on the film rights. Leonardo Di Caprio as Myron, Meryl Streep as his Aunt, Robin Williams or Steve Martin as Moncrief, and the Spice Girls as Flook, Pook, and Snook. Chilling stuff : I shalln't sleep well tonight .... .
Mick