{"id":216,"date":"2008-04-24T10:45:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T18:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/just-thinking\/casting-a-favorite-book\/"},"modified":"2014-02-21T18:43:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T02:43:36","slug":"casting-a-favorite-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Casting a favorite book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people have put up YouTube videos with their suggestions of actors to play the characters in Diana Gabaldon&#8217;s <em>Outlander <\/em>books, should they ever be made into a miniseries or movie.  (I think the one that included Robert Sean Leonard as Frank and Black Jack Fraser was rather inspired.)  I&#8217;ve never really thought about finding actors to represent my mental pictures of book characters.  But if I were to get started, I&#8217;d go for a real true dream cast, for one of my other favorite book series.<\/p>\n<p> Nero Wolfe<\/p>\n<p> Archie Goodwin<\/p>\n<p> Saul Panzer<\/p>\n<p> Fred Durkin<\/p>\n<p> Orrie Cather<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/images\/clary.jpg\" alt=\"Fritz Brenner\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"100\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"85\" \/> Fritz Brenner<\/p>\n<p>  Inspector Cramer (on the right)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/images\/reese.jpg\" alt=\"Purley Stebbins\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"131\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"88\" \/> Purley Stebbins<\/p>\n<p>and&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/images\/tomlin.jpg\" alt=\"Lily Rowan\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"124\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"97\" \/> Lily Rowan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people have put up YouTube videos with their suggestions of actors to play the characters in Diana Gabaldon&#8217;s Outlander books, should they ever be made into a miniseries or movie. (I think the one that included Robert &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=216\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}