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[Joe Hubbard]

It looks like Michael Mann still has his eye on doing this remake of Hemmingway's classic.


http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/03/michael-manns-for-whom-bell-tolls-still.html

Joe

[Hock]

I reread that book about three years ago.

There is nothing quite like Hemingway. I have a a few older friends that have memorized segments of Hemingway's books. He always reads better than the films are. He wrote, his methodology, like like a poet. Today's writers write like their reader's are in the third grade.

This insidious, infective spiral to the "Dick and Jane" level has spread everywhere. It is evident when reading the old classics. You've become addicted to the newer "Dick and Jane" and then stumble through these older classics. They seem..."thicker."

Anyway, it would make an interesting new movie. They probably will try to capture the feel and get some other really good actors Decaprio is everyone's darling now huh? It could be Brad Pitt as a last pop star, but some reviewer summed it up good the other day when he said that Pitt always looks like he just stepped out of a male underwear commercial.  

When will we get some other actor's? And then some other kind's of movies?  

Gary Cooper. Where are the Gary Coopers?

Hock  

[Webby]

The day's of old, when men where men, when gay meant happy, pansy was the name of a flower, those day's are gone.

I think a lot has to do with action star's who served in the armed forces, plenty of ex-marines, etc did well in Hollywood. Also people from very hard backgrounds and upbringing Charles Bronson had a very hard young life and became an icon of the hard guy type. If you read up on his childhood it's little wonder.

Bring back the old day's. !!

Webby...       

[VicMackey]

The day's of old, when men where men, when gay meant happy, pansy was the name of a flower, those day's are gone.

I think a lot has to do with action star's who served in the armed forces, plenty of ex-marines, etc did well in Hollywood. Also people from very hard backgrounds and upbringing Charles Bronson had a very hard young life and became an icon of the hard guy type. If you read up on his childhood it's little wonder.

Bring back the old day's. !!

Webby...      

Let me see, also include Lee Marvin (USMC/had that trademark growl like voice when he talked) and Audie Murphy (US Army CMH Awardee), both former military veterans. Charles Bronson did military service as a tailgunner for the Army Air Corps in WW2 and also worked in the coal mines, which explains his rock hard physique. His prolonged exposure to dust from the coal mines probably became his undoing many years later and he contracted pneumonia, which took his life years later. Regardless, there is no doubt he is the real deal and avoided the Hollywood crowd. He was also more into making crowd pleasing movies for his die hard fans rather than worrying about what the media thinks.