Message from discussion Ok, I'll start: Miss Marple

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From: djhe...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject: Re: Ok, I'll start:  Miss Marple
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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 14:17:57 GMT
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In article <cHm4m.32220$S16.14...@newsfe23.iad>,
BillGill  <billne...@cox.net> wrote:
>I saw the new Miss Marple last night.  The story was "A Pocket Full of Rye".
>I thought it was pretty well done.  Of course Miss Marple didn't really
>look like Miss Marple, but then they never do.  At least once you have
>seen your first one.  And sometimes not then.

Welllllll.... the first Marple I saw was Angela Lansbury in
the 1980 production of _The Mirror Crack'd._  And she was
very good, but a little more ... vigorous than I'd have
expected in Miss Marple.  The next one I saw was Joan
Hickson, who I thought was spot-on.  I have never had the
misfortune of seeing any of the Margaret Rutherford films,
which I understand can be described as "lots of fun, but not
anything like Marple."

The next lady ... (searches IMDB for name) ... Geraldine
McEwan was, to my mind, not nearly as good.  I haven't seen
any of the ones with Julia McKenzie at all.

Dorothy J. Heydt
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