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Yeah, second. Earthy.

Good points T'city. For myself I have a simple rule about research and writing. If you write something that connects to real stuff, facts and the like, get it right. Check, because if you don't someone else will and you can end up looking like a ...

Tony, what a wonderful lack of economy of words. I do agree though, of course you can't love too much!

This very gratifying. I dropped this off on my way into a day of crap and on my phone I see all these emails dropping in throughout a terminally dreadful day and I couldn't respond. I seem to have planted a beanstalk that grew without any help from ...

I saw TTSS on Saturday and found it hard work to be honest, although there was some good acting in there. On the back of that I watched 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' on Sunday and actually preferred that. Another adaptation I found very ...

I would love for someone to make a film version of Tuesday Lobsang Rampa's 'The Third Eye' - as a comedy!

Grrr, grrrr, Grrr! Only joking, TF. To each his/her own. I do agree with you that the radio adaptation of LOTR was brilliant. And with John, that the book does bring more pleasure than the film, though, as I said above and others have agreed, the ...

I flippin' hate LOTR books and films both ( sorry) but I will say that the 1970's radio adaption is totally amazing, as it cuts out all of Tolkien's tedious ramblings and the yawn making cinematography of the film, and the acting hampered by the ...

I liked (but to be honest, didn't love) the LOTR films, Wrath, having never read the book (yes, really!). Now I am reading it (nearly finished The Two Towers) and enjoyed discovering a strand of story that didn't make it into the films, the Tom ...

I think it must be easier to adapt a short story or novella to film (eg Killdozer, one of my all-time faves) but I think, with a bit of effort, it is possible to do even a very long novel justice: eg Lord of the rings, Dune. Praps it depends on ...

Tom Horn, starring Steve McQueen, was probably the best western movie made - and it was based on a true-life character.

The first thing I said to Mr Gels when we left the cinema after watching TTSS was - I think I need to watch that again! He laughed because he had read the book etc but I'd gone in kind of blind as to what it was all about. I came out, kind of blind ...

I might be mis-remembering but I'm sure TTSS was adapted for TV in the 80s and was hugely successful. The opening credits had a set of Matryoshka Russian (nesting) Dolls opening, and Alec Guinness played all the parts himself? I think the serial ...

Alan I think you're right. Some of the greatest novels have not made great films. Two more very slight short stories that were brilliantly filmed: Daphne du Maurier's The Birds and Don't Look Now