A thread about this on a friend’s page. Rather than inflict it on his feed, I will offer a link here.
I can remember hearing The Shadow on the radio as a child, before we got a TV in the early 1950s, and I have fuzzy, but fond, memories of that.
Didn’t discover the books until twenty-years later, liked those, too.
My problems with the 1994 Baldwin Shadow movie were chiefly two: Looked good, but they didn’t play it straight, instead went for camp — all those winks at the audience killed it for me.
The second is personal, having to do with a time when I was collaborating on a comic book movie script that went into turnaround. The would-be director of that script had done a movie I loved, Highlander, but also did The Shadow. In a studio meeting, said director said something my collaborator and I thought so inane it lowered my opinion of him somewhat.
Collaborator and I looked at each other.
He didn‘t just say that, did he? Really?
Had the movie gone forward, I could foresee problems …
If ever I write my autobiography, what the director said will be the subtitle of the section on my adventures in LaLaLand.
Welcome to Hollywood, dudes …
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