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Since I discussed plans to make a feature film of Appaloosa, several people have asked if I'll revisit the subject. Yes I will, in fact I am currently on page 79 of a new novel about Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, which for the moment I am calling RESOLUTION. Probably be out next year. As for the movie, I share your enthusiasm for the casting. Ed Harris and Viggo Mortenson are exactly right. The only one better would be, of course, me . . . but my SAG card has lapsed. It is also time to remind you that Jesse Stone returns to CBS-TV in the person of Tom Selleck in the tv version of my novel SEA CHANGE. It will air, I think, on May 22, or there abouts, keep an eye out. Tom makes a great Jesse Stone (of course, if my SAG card hadn't lapsed . . . ). One last show biz note: David Parker and the Bang Group are peforming May 8 through 12 at Dance Theater Workshop in NYC. And, for you California mid coast folks, Daniel Parker will be in residence this summer at The Santa Cruz Shakespeare Festival.
Later
rbp
As promised -- good news on the feature film. New Line Cinema has green lighted APPALOOSA (greenlit?). It will star Ed Harris as Virgil Cole, and Viggo Mortenson as Everett Hitch. Harris will direct. Probably start shooting in the fall. Where, is yet to be decided. I've seen the first script and think it's about perfect (I had nothing to do with it). So far, Ed Harris has done everything he said he'd do -- that is not common, and I feel fortunate to be in business with him. I'm now angling for a walk on as a still deadly, but aging, gun fighter with a good looking hat, who doesn't have to get on a horse . . . SONGS THAT SPENSER TAUGHT ME, the CD my son, Dan, is doing (with a guest shot by Sugar Throat Bob) is finished. I've been promised a few early CD's this coming week. Then we'll figure out how best to market it. I'm hoping for an irresistable ground swell of demand. . . My first YA novel, EDENVILLE OWLS is out this month (4/24 I think). Get 'em young is our motto. . . And, in the interests of full disclosure, yes it's true, I was on a program on WPRO in Providence, RI last week, called Radio GirlFriends. My only excuse is that Joan was with me, and one of the Girlfriends is a friend of ours. But it doesn't do much for my attempts to cultivate a tough guy image. Worse still, during the entire two hours, neither the word "Stud" nor the word "Hunk" was ever spoken. Sigh!
Talk to you later
rbp
