Unlikely Private Eyes (No, Really...) What the hell were they thinking? Sometimes you just have to scratch your head. Some people should just NOT play private eyes. Some of them shouldn't even act at all. And yet, all these people, more famous for other things or other roles, have been cast at one time or another … Continue reading The Casting Ouch!
Tag: Made-for_television movies
Now I know why they called it “Spenser Confidential”
They didn't want the word to get out... Mark Wahlberg would make a great Spenser. Maybe he should play him sometime. Because anyone who's ever read any of Parker's novels (or those by his successor Ace Atkins) knows that whoever the hell Wahlberg was playing in Netflix's 2020 TV flick Spenser Confidential, it wasn't Spenser. Or … Continue reading Now I know why they called it “Spenser Confidential”
Hamilton Nash
Adapted by Robert Lenski Based on The Continental Op character created by Dashiell Hammett For six glorious hours, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op actually had a name. but if you weren't one of those fortune few who caught the 1978 CBS six-hour mini-series adaptation of The Dain Curse, you'll just have to take my word for … Continue reading Hamilton Nash
B.L. Stryker
Created by Christopher Crowe Smirk Alert! Burt Reynolds played B.L. (BUDDY LEE) STRYKER, a retired New Orleans cop turned slacker Miami P.I. living on his beat-up old houseboat and tooling around town in his equally beat-up Caddy, operating on the fringes of Florida's hoity-toity Palm Beach, sniffing out work, in a series of made-for-TV movies … Continue reading B.L. Stryker