-----Original Message-----
>From: Patrick King <
abrasax93@yahoo.com>
>Sent: Feb 3, 2007 5:10 PM
>To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re:The Long
Goodbye
>
>The reference in the last 2 lines of my quoted
post
>are from a poem by Robert Burns. After making The
Long
>Goodbye, Gould recorded audio books of all
of
>Chandler's novels. If he was not trying to
cast
>himself as the modern Marlow, he certainly did
an
>awful lot of work in that direction.
>
>Patrick King
Gould recorded the audio books 14 years after he made The
Long Goodbye. I guess he was taking his sweet time in his
quest to be the modern Marlow(e).
I know Gould is very proud of The Long Goodbye. And I'm sure
he would have liked to have played the character again. But
as of this time the audio books are as close as he's come to
doing that. I would suggest that his involvement with The
Long Goodbye probably made him a good choice for a celebrity
reader of those books, which were produced by actress Deborah
Raffin and her husband Michael Viner for their company Dove
books. Once again, Elliot Gould did not produce the audio
books and he did not initiate their creation. He did,
however, read them when the job was offered to him.
You're not going to equate reading audio books with being a
"leading man" in motion pictures now, are you?
TL
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