They seek him here, they seek him there...

We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven?—Is he in hell?
That demmed, elusive Pimpernel.

I've been trying to find a copy of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the 1934 film version with Leslie Howard.



I have the 1982 version with Anthony Andrews and Ian McKellen, and I love it. I don't like the 2002 version with Richard E. Grant - about which I acually love everything (especially Jamie Bamber and Martin Shaw, and oh my goodness, Denise Black) ...except Richard E. Grant as the Pimpernel, whom I found stiff, unbelievable, and unsympathetic. I couldn't bear to watch it again. So it goes.

But the 1934 version? Why is it so hard to find?

Perry Mason...

I just read the exciting news that there's going to be a Perry Mason movie, and that Robert Downey Jr. will play Perry Mason.

My goodness. I wonder who will be Della Street?

When I was six years old I loved Perry Mason - the one show I didn't want to miss. It was probably the first thing I ever watched that wasn't a cartoon. About five years later, the Perry Mason novels were the first adult novels I started to read.

I hope they aren't planning to camp it up, as they did with Holmes. I can't quite imagine that. But apparently it will be set in 1930s Los Angeles, so I'm hoping for witty film noir.

Fringe, "Letters of Transit"

I watched Fringe tonight, episode 4x19, 'Letters of Transit'.

My goodness. ( What a surprise. )