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Subject: Re: Miss Marple (Was: USA Election)
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On 2024-11-22 14:51:18 +0000, Blueshirt said:

> Your Name wrote:
> 
>> On 2024-11-21 10:17:08 +0000, Blueshirt said:
>> 
>>> 2) But he did play Miss Marple in a film, which was okay
>>> although "Murder She Wrote" was a lot better.
>> 
>> "The Mirror Cracked", released in 1980. It also had some big
>> name actors like Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis.
>> It was meant to be the first of a trilogy of movies with
>> Lansbury playing Miss Marple, but the other two weren't made
>> because the first one wasn't successful at the box office.
> 
> That's because it wasn't that good... it was an okay film but a
> typical example of when the American studios try and do a film
> adaptation of a decent novel and hope the big names will carry
> the film.
> 
> The bad news is, 20th Century Studios are supposedly planning a
> Miss Marple film following the success of the two Kenneth
> Branagh Hercule Poirot film adaptations... so we'll see how that
> turns out. I'm sure it'll look lovely and be full of big names,
> it's the 'changes for a modern audience' that usually throws the
> spanner in to the works.
> 

Miss Marple will probably be played by a black or asian trans-person 
with a missing arm and blind in one eye ... then it ticks three boxes 
off the Politically Correct quota checklist.  :-\