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| Laughing Gravy | Jan 28 2017, 09:05 AM Post #31 |
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Put me down for a copy, RR. I thought the animated Disney cartoon of Tarzan was terrible, but then, c'mon - music by Phil Collins? Sheesh. |
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| The Batman | Jan 28 2017, 07:47 PM Post #32 |
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Thanks, RR, for the links and the info on the new book, looking forward to it. |
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| Bert Greene | Jan 28 2017, 09:36 PM Post #33 |
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Ooh, looking forward to the new serial book, RR. Sounds enticing. Another incentive for me to make the long trek to the Williamsburg show. Fifty-fifty chance I might make it. Haven't decided yet, and weather might also be a factor. As for the Tarzan tv-series, which was brought up, I did purchase the DVD-sets, and watched every episode. I enjoyed them, but I don't know how much I'd recommend the series to people. It had some excellent location work, and a fair number of episodes were good and actionful. The jungle boy, Jai, can wear a bit thin, though, with his whiney voice. Ely made a perfectly fine Tarzan. Perhaps my only real qualm with the series is that I have a personal preference for a Tarzan that's more a part of the 'old world' pulp fantasy milieu. As the film and tv series kept marching up to the more modern eras, it loses a little of its appealing mystique for me. Finished off my recent revisiting of "The New Adventures of Tarzan" (1935). Had a blast with it. So glad this thread gave me the notion to view it again. Although I'm starting to think the serial must have some kind of weird, intrinsic hoodoo attached to it, because I noticed each time I've viewed it, Ula Holt seems to get progressively more attractive to me. I don't know if that should disturb me or not. |
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| Sgt Saturn | Jan 30 2017, 11:25 AM Post #34 |
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It's the only movie where Jane is a blonde (as described by ERB). Unfortunately, this Jane is not Jane Porter; so, that counts for naught. (Yes, the Jane Porter Clayton in Legend has light-colored hair. Some call that blonde; I call it close-but-no-cigar.) Edited by Sgt Saturn, Jan 30 2017, 11:25 AM.
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| The Batman | Jan 30 2017, 12:24 PM Post #35 |
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Is the hair colour really that big of a deal? |
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| riddlerider | Jan 30 2017, 05:40 PM Post #36 |
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I've had the same reaction to Ula, and it doesn't disturb me. In fact, I remain endlessly fascinated by the weird chemistry between the Burroughs and Dearholt families. (For those who don't know, Ashton Dearholt divorced his wife — former silent-screen actress Florence Gilbert — to marry Ula, with whom he'd carried on a torrid affair while they were both in Guatemala making 1934's Adventure Girl. Florence, in turn, had an affair with Burroughs and married him immediately upon the latter's divorce from his first wife. Amazingly, the Dearholts and Burroughses remained friendly and often socialized together. What eventually drove a wedge between the families was not the peculiar marital arrangement, but ERB's dissatisfaction with Dearholt's mismanagement of Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises, the company in which they were partners.) |
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| Sgt Saturn | Jan 31 2017, 02:03 PM Post #37 |
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It's just my litmus test for whether the filmmakers are paying attention to the books or not. (Admittedly, even J. Allen St. John, who came on board with the second book, got this wrong.) |
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| The Batman | Jan 31 2017, 06:48 PM Post #38 |
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As a comic book fan, I can see your point, but if they get most of the rest of it right, minor things can be forgiven. |
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