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JediNemesis
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1/26/07 10:59am
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He was, and he was awesome. He was blond in HP, too.
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NYCitygurl
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That's what I thought. He's awesome 
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Peter O'Toole as Randolph Spongg
So it's time for you and I to bid each other goodbye.
Why don't we just call it au revoir?
No, let's call it goodbye.
Kate Winslet as Lola Vavoom
You used to be big in movies.
I will treat that feed line with the contempt it deserves.
Billy Boyd as Otto Tibbit
Father liked word games. He was fourteen times world Scrabble Champion. When he died we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score. He spent the greater part of his life campaigning to have respelt those words that looks as though they are being spelt wrongly . . .
Such as?
Oh, skiing, vacuum, freest, eczema, gnu, diarrhea, that sort of thing. He also thought that 'abbreviation' was too long for its meaning, that 'monosyllabic' should have one syllable, 'dyslexic' should be renamed 'O' and 'unspeakable' should be respelt 'unsfzpxkable.'
Aishwarya Rai as Gladys Singh
People who are depressed can get murdered, you know.
Nathaniel Parker as Prometheus
The Fire-Giver! I like your style, man.
You are man. I am Prometheus.
It is worth mentioning at this point, a particularly nice bit of casting; Sharon Small and Nathaniel Parker have previously worked together (well over two dozen times) as DI Thomas Lynley and DS Barbara Havers in the Inspector Lynley mysteries, some of the best new mysteries being written and certainly the best since Poirot and Jeremy Brett's Holmes retired to be shown on PBS' Mystery; think Agatha Christie, but a bit more realistic. Think Inspector Alleyn, only more cynical. Think Adam Dalgliesh, only they make sense. 
So, to see those two under the same roof again in this series would be just too wonderful; this novel is, after all, a spoof of mystery novels; allow me to throw in a few references to mystery cinema.
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NYCitygurl
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OKay, now we're going to play the 'where Nat has seen these people' game
Peter O'Toole was King Priam in Troy, and Billy Boyd was Merry in the LOTR movies
I can't say I've actually ever heard of either those two, but I'll take your word that they go well together 
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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Dominic Monaghan as Charlie Baker
If I don't make it, tell Susie I love her.
Jane Leeves as Deborah Quatt
You always insisted on being the pencil monitor - a policeman at heart, clearly.
And you were expelled for sewing the school cat to the janitor.
The joyuous experimentation of children. What fun that was!
David Suchet as Hercule Poirot
No lines. Cameo at Guild.
Paul Bettany as Ashley
I did a printout of his record - but on ACETATE so you could still look at your desk while reading it!
Rachel Weisz as Greta Kandlestyck-Maeker
I like your overalls!
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NYCitygurl
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And Pippin too
I like the choice of Rachel
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The_Face
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2/13/07 7:14am
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Merry and Pippin! Delightful. 
Wasn't Nathaneal (sp?) Parker your pic for Prometheus in one of the Thursday Next books? He looks right for the part.
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Sean Connery as Solomon Grundy
I've weathered four stock-market crashes and suffered monetary losses that exceed the GNP of East and West Woppistania combined. I survived all that and I'll certainly survive you.
Orlando Bloom as Josh Hatchett
And what was the significance of the custard on the Colonel's sock suspender?
Marlon Brando (computer generated) as Giorgio Porgia
We used to encase people alive in motorway supports. I'm amazed that the elevated sections of Junction 10 even stay up. They tell me I'm just a sad old romantic. The kids today have no respect for tradition. No dash, no style, no elegance.
Liam Neeson as Brown-Horrocks
Is that tea all right?
It's undrinkable.
Excellent!
Anthony Hopkins as The Jellyman
Officer Baines, you are excused.
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The_Face
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Whenever I think of Solomon Grundy, I think of the DC Comics version ("Solomon Grundy want pants too!"). When I read it, I often pictured that huge pale brute stuffed into a business suit and speaking oddly formally. It was a funny image, but I will never vote against having Sean Connery in a cast.
This is a really talented cast in general, but particularly this post.
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I'm very much loving all of those choices (especally Brando and Orlando Bloom ).
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MsLanna
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Just finished 'Something Rotten' and wondered if there is a book number five because when I finished I though:
What about Aornis? Did I miss the bit where that gets resolved?
I can't stand loose ends like that.
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I don't believe there is.
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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Yes, I remember being rather disturbed that the Aornis bit never got resolved. A shame; I thought he'd magically pull it off at the very end or something, but no.
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I was thinking of this thread earlier this week; we were atching Wuthering Heights in class and I couldn't figure out wherethe hell I'd seen Ralph Fiennes until I remembered this thread
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July 2007
First Among Sequels
It is fourteen years since Thursday Next pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop, and the Special Operations Network has been disbanded. Using Swindon's Acme Carpets as a front, Thursday and her colleagues Bowden, Stig and Spike continue their same professions, but illegally.
Of course, this front is itself a front for Thursday's continued work at Jurisfiction, the Policing agency within the bookworld, and she is soon grappling with a recalcitrant new apprentice, an inter-genre war or two, and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once-hilarious Thomas Hardy books.
As the Council of Genres decree that making books interactive will boost flagging readership levels and Goliath attempt to perfect a trans-fictional tourist coach, Thursday find herself in the onerous position of having to side with the enemy to destroy a greater evil that threatens the very fabric of the reading experience.
With Aornis Hades once again on the prowl, an idle sixteen-year-old son who would rather sleep in than save the world from the end of time, a government with a dangerously high stupidity surplus and the Swindon Stiltonistas trying to muscle in on her cheese-smuggling business, Thursday must once again travel to the very outer limits of acceptable narrative possibilities to triumph against increasing odds.
- from Jasper Fforde's website
Sounds delightfully insane. I'm looking forward to it.
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