A couple videos for you tonight.
First of all, somebody in a P.G. Wodehouse fan group on Facebook embedded this, the only known surviving episode of the Ian Carmichael/Dennis Price BBC series on Jeeves and Wooster.
Some of you people as old as I am may recall Carmichael as an inspired (though slightly overaged) Lord Peter Wimsey back in the ’70s. Since Lord Peter and Bunter are pretty much interchangeable with Bertie and Jeeves, he’s naturally perfect in this role (no disrespect to Hugh Laurie, who was great in another way).
But Dennis Price as Jeeves disappoints me (I haven’t watched it all yet). He lacks the imposing figure I expect (perhaps I was just spoiled by Stephen Fry).
And here, below — thanks to Floyd at Threedonia — is the trailer for the upcoming Odd Thomas movie. From what I see here, I like it. The kid playing Odd seems to have the right attitude.
That’s interesting. Do you know anything about the lawsuit involving the Odd Thomas movie?
There’s a lawsuit?
There’s gonna be a lawsuit if you try to equivalence Bertie and the splendid Lord Peter again! [Bill doesn’t have the wild at heart emoticon from thinklings here so he just makes a tough guy face at the screen]
Just watched that Wodehouse video. Remarkable. I enjoyed it, though at first I thought they should have stuck more closely to the story.
On the lawsuit, this comes from The Hollywood Reporter: “The producers of Odd Thomas… are suing several entities alleging that they failed to provide $35 million that would have gone toward marketing and distributing the movie and paying back production loans.”