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Taking Chances, by E. L. Van Hine and L.H. Nicoll
louisev:
thanks for your twelve cents, Jack!
As a matter of fact, my first choice for Ellery was Keith Carradine. He wasn't 100% my vision of him, but he was the closest I could find - tall and gangly, long dark hair... missing only the slate-grey eyes (which Hugh Jackman doesn't have either.) Keith was close, in my mind. When DeeDee (from Bettermost) offered Hugh Jackman as a better alternative to cast as Ellery, I thought to myself (as did many other readers) : ah HA! So I was well into the third book (where you are, approximately) before a front-runner for casting Ellery actually emerged.
Keeping that in mind, however - casting of an actual actor is not really up to me. It is whatever works in the mind of the reader(s).
Always good to get some first-hand knowledge of the area to help fill out our mutual obsession with all things BBM!
brokebackjack:
didn't realise i wrote such a LONG post, sorry-- hey does Dupree have a pic?
want a know who i'm readin about! <g>
louisev:
--- Quote from: brokebackjack on November 12, 2006, 08:25:02 am ---didn't realise i wrote such a LONG post, sorry-- hey does Dupree have a pic?
want a know who i'm readin about! <g>
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Oh yes, look in the Gallery thread. There are casting photos of many of the characters there in the first post!
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=3719.0
magicmountain:
--- Quote from: brokebackjack on November 12, 2006, 07:53:34 am ---
Unless you have experienced Wyoming, it's almost impossible to do it justice--the poverty-which-isn't-poverty because urban and eastern standards do not apply and never have; the wealth; the 'normal' standards of the vast majority; the actual poverty by WYOMING standards; the strangeness; the openness of the people and real friendliness; the Native American nations; the feeling of ' us rural cowboys against the rest who don't get it and the lawyer who wears my hat'; the abnormal normality, the normal abnormality--like Cheyenne, living literally on TOP of 40% of the worlds nuclear bombs { i'm serious--got a friend who has some off the backyard. He's very proud of 'his' nuclear bomb silo roflmao, says he kept NY and Berlin alive: 'Come on, let me show you ma nuclear weapons ' roflmaooooo}
And no i don't live there. Yet. I'm just another guy who is in love with the High Plains just to the north of me, and the people who inhabit them. Most of my state of thinks Wyoming is waaay wierd. It is. But then so am i lol.
Hope I didn't bore the hell out of the entire thread...just wanted to add my 12 cents. <g>
Jack
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Annie Proulx quoted a retired Wyoming rancher in the front of Close Range (which included the Brokeback Mountain story) who said: "Reality's never been much use out here."
Reading your first-hand account gives us some inkling about what he was talking about!
RonitR:
--- Quote from: brokebackjack on November 12, 2006, 08:25:02 am ---.. hey does Dupree have a pic? want a know who i'm readin about! <g>
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On the subject of Dupree ;) , can I add a nominationd?
I keep thinking that Wentworth Miller from "Prison Break" will be PERFECT for Dupree. He has the millitary, good-guy look, looks the right age, and is drop-dead gorgeous in a not too obvious way ;)
He'll just have to beef- up a bit, and use brown contacts (as it is, he is almost too good-looking .. ;) )
p.s - sorry, don't know how to post a picture of him
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