December 1: This date in 1886, Rex Stout, creator of Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin, and all the other residents of the famous brownstone on New York's West 35th Street, is born in Noblesville, Indiana, arriving on the scene of many fictional crimes.
Wolfe and company appeared in a staggering number of novels and short stories, from "Fer-de-Lance" in 1934 to "A Family Affair" in 1975.
Thanks for the reminder and hurrah for Rex Stout! Actually rather slight of build, Stout was an even more assertive libertarian than Hammett, Chandler or MacDonald. Would that there were more than 27 of those well made and superbly cast A&E Nero Wolf TV mysteries. Maury Chaykin was the perfect Wolf. Tim Hutton came very close to my vision of Archie Goodwin - ditto Colin Fox as Fritz Brenner, R.D. Reid as Sgt. Purley Stebbins and Conrad Dunn as Saul Panzer. And each and every distressed female client was as beautifully cast as any of the Bogart-Bacall classics. I'm saving up for the entire DVD collection!
Pointless Digressions is the on-line extension of a radio series commissioned sometime
in the last century by the Vancouver radio station AM-1040 (now Team 1040, an all-sports broadcaster). The mini-programs were written and voiced by Lyndon Grove, whose ambition, he said, was "to digress my way through life."
Grove describes himself as "a media Gypsy," having spent vast amounts of time in radio,
television, newspapers, magazines, advertising, public relations, film and live performance.
Pointless Digressions is his self-help therapy project.
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Thanks for the reminder and hurrah for Rex Stout! Actually rather slight of build, Stout was an even more assertive libertarian than Hammett, Chandler or MacDonald. Would that there were more than 27 of those well made and superbly cast A&E Nero Wolf TV mysteries. Maury Chaykin was the perfect Wolf. Tim Hutton came very close to my vision of Archie Goodwin - ditto Colin Fox as Fritz Brenner, R.D. Reid as Sgt. Purley Stebbins and Conrad Dunn as Saul Panzer. And each and every distressed female client was as beautifully cast as any of the Bogart-Bacall classics. I'm saving up for the entire DVD collection!
ReplyDeleteTo digress even further from the present digression, the IMDb website quotes a lovely bit of Wolfeian dialogue from the TV series.
ReplyDeleteWolfe: May I sit down?
All: No!!!
Wolfe: I must overrule you.
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