This is becoming Joan's philanthropy blog. Community Servings, which delivers hot meals to people battling life threatening illness, in the Boston area, is holding its annual fund raiser, LIFE SAVOR. Joan has volunteered me for another auction item. This time the highest bidder gets to share the dedication page of a future Parker book with Joan. So, if you want a book dedicated to you or your designee, call Jennifer Tsolas at Community Servings for details: 617-445-7777. . . . I recorded MOON RIVER last Wednesday in LA. The orchestra had already laid down its track . . . Dan had laid down his and his harmonic part . . . so I was alone in the booth with the music directer and the mixer, doing mine. With the ear phones on everyone sounds like Dean Martin. I was pleased. When you listen to the rough mixed playback, not everyone sounds like Dean Martin. I was less pleased. But when they played the part where Dan harmonizes with me, Joan got teary. I think she was touched . . . or maybe it was just my singing. . . . Anyway, down the line we'll be offering it for public consumption and you can decide. Will this be my break out album? . . . had a meeting with a couple of producers about reviving "Spenser: For Hire". We'll see. . . . my debut young adult novel, EDENVILLE OWLS will be out next month (4/24). Be the first on your block to own it. Old adults will like it too . . . David Parker and The Bang Group will be at Dance Theater Work Shop in NYC on May 10 . . . and the Sox open their season in 16 days. . . . I'm still boxing twice a week. It has not made me more dangerous, exactly. But I'm less afraid of Joan than I used to be. . . . I hope to have good news about "Appaloosa" next blog, but I don't want to get ahead of myself.
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Hello, Mr. Parker. I tried to contact you via your site last week about possibly coming to Mansfield High School to speak to a class of Freshmen who have read Early Autumn as part of their ninth-grade curriculum. Would you please contact me about this possibility? I apologize for trying to contact you through this forum, but I saw this as another way to get my message to you. Great blog, by the way. Congratulations on the boxing, and I can't wait for Edenville Owls! Take care!
Posted by: Tom Deschenes | March 19, 2007 at 09:26 AM
My e-mail is Tom.Deschenes@mansfieldschools.com ; sorry I did not include it in the last post.
Posted by: Tom Deschenes | March 19, 2007 at 09:28 AM
Mr. Parker, like what a world it would be if everybody sounded like Dino. Never was, never will be anyone as cool as the King of Cool. Oh, to return to the days when Dino walked the earth.
Posted by: dino martin peters | March 19, 2007 at 09:29 AM
Hi Mr. Parker,
It is good to be able to help others. You and Joan are blessed in so many ways and one of those is to have the means to help others along the way. Good for you.
I am sure your album will be quite a joy to you and your children and hopefully your fans. I enjoy your blogs and your unfailing sense of humor.
Cheers,
Georgiann Kite
Posted by: Georgiann Kite | March 19, 2007 at 10:15 PM
Spenser:For Hire? Seriously?! Now, that would be interesting.
I hadn't started reading your books when the original series was on the air, so I missed out. My dad, who got me hooked on your writing with "Playmates", always said that the show, while good, wasn't on par with the books. When will there be a dvd release of the show? That way I can see for myself, and I know that you're just dying to learn my views, right?
Anyway, what I should've started out with is how big a fan I am. Like another fan who wrote, my dad got me hooked and we always exchange various books of yours as b-day/x-mas gifts, and have for years. Reading your books opened my eyes to other great writers of the past like Raymond Chandler & Dashiell Hammet to current greats like Sue Grafton & Walter Mosley. I read earlier that you don't read a lot of current stuff, but have you checked out any of your peers? Specifically, Grafton and Mosley?
Posted by: Mike Golla Jr. | March 25, 2007 at 11:56 AM
A new "Spenser: For Hire" would be great, it's a shame Tom Selleck is already playing Jesse Stone, he would make a great, mature Spenser. If this comes about then hopefully you can influence choices for a better Quirk and Belson and some tough guys that look like tough guys and boxers for Hawk and Spenser. I always enjoyed the original Susan and the theme music which was sadly missing from the TV movies. Thanks for keeping us updated, I too am a Dean Martin fan, looking forward to the next Spenser release!
Posted by: Charles Foreman | April 03, 2007 at 01:40 PM
Yeah, I thought Barbara Stock was wonderfully cast... though she's too old now.
I loved Avery Brooks as Hawk, though I was never happy with the way the series' writers wrote him. Brooks did the best he could with what they gave him, but the writing of the entire series, in retrospect, had the heavyhandedness I expect of 80s tv as a watcher of lots of current shows.
I too liked the theme: the *fast*, rock guitar version, though, not the slower one. The fast one is singularly difficult to locate...
I can't say I'd like Selleck as Spenser, though; again with the understatedness thing. Though I guess Tom's not playing Jesse all that 'big' either...
I can predict, I think, though, that if Trouble in Paradise gets filmed, that there's one line that will get cut... :-)
Posted by: Baylink - '87e24 | May 19, 2007 at 06:24 PM
Ihave no typekey or typePad and know not what they are.Have read 36 of your books,looking for another 10 or so [Hope I live that long] How can I purchase them?THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP.
Posted by: james desmond | October 22, 2007 at 03:01 PM