From ivanlan@pauahtun.org Fri Sep 28 11:58:16 2001 Received: from mailscan1.cac.washington.edu (mailscan1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.08) with SMTP id f8SIwEN92108 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:58:14 -0700 Received: FROM mxu4.u.washington.edu BY mailscan1.cac.washington.edu ; Fri Sep 28 11:58:14 2001 -0700 Received: from na-tzul.pauahtun.org (IDENT:root@pauahtun.org [208.219.16.218]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.08) with ESMTP id f8SIwDQ03801 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:58:14 -0700 Received: from cartman.axent.com (cartman.axent.com [209.210.4.253]) by na-tzul.pauahtun.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA28784 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:58:13 -0600 Message-ID: <3BB4C83B.AA94FC5F@pauahtun.org> Received: from no.name.available by cartman.axent.com via smtpd (for pauahtun.org [208.219.16.218]) with SMTP; 28 Sep 2001 18:58:13 UT Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:58:03 -0600 From: Ivan Van Laningham X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Not even TAN though possibly a Greek connection References: <001601c14843$a7c81180$138a99d1@jisles> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi All-- John Isles wrote: > Hollywood, with some poetic license and an eye > for box-office receipts, cast Sean Connery in Raisuli's part and converted > Mr. Perdicaris to Candice Bergen's role and Mr. Varley to two children when > it made the enjoyable "The Wind and the Lion" in 1975. > Sean Connery is billed as "Mulay Achmed Mohammed el-Raisuli the Magnificent." Note that Brian Keith was cast as probably the best film Theodore Roosevelt I've ever seen. I didn't think he had it in him. _The Wind and the Lion_ is indeed enjoyable. With other actors, it would be a two or two-and-half star film. But Connery, Bergen and Keith lift it out of the ordinary into a small treasure. Metta, Ivan ---------------------------------------------- Ivan Van Laningham Symantec http://www.pauahtun.org http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours .