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Andrew watched It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World again; I forget if I had this thought last time, but had American Gods been written and filmed some sixty or seventy years earlier, Spencer Tracy would have made an excellent Wednesday. Of course this raises the question of who’d have played Shadow— Andrew says Sidney Poitier, who would have been good but maybe too obvious. I wonder if Harry Belafonte might have worked. No idea who else to cast for this premake.
Meanwhile I kind of also want someone to write a fix-it fic in which Capt. Culpepper and Mrs. Finch (platonically) run away together, with or without the money.
ETA— I have an idea for a knitting project. I want to make something (probably a hat, since that’s a good small test project) where it starts out with a traditional repeating fairisle pattern and then develops a glitch that stretches/smears part of it into stripes.
Meanwhile I kind of also want someone to write a fix-it fic in which Capt. Culpepper and Mrs. Finch (platonically) run away together, with or without the money.
ETA— I have an idea for a knitting project. I want to make something (probably a hat, since that’s a good small test project) where it starts out with a traditional repeating fairisle pattern and then develops a glitch that stretches/smears part of it into stripes.
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Date: 2020-03-26 09:55 am (UTC)From:Sold. (Alas that Max von Sydow would then have been too young to play actual Odin, from the very end of the novel.)
I wonder if Harry Belafonte might have worked.
Just based on The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (1959), I think Belafonte would have knocked it out of the park, but Poitier had a noir mode in addition to his more familiar, dignified persona and might have done just fine.
No idea who else to cast for this premake.
Richard Basehart as Low Key Lyesmith.