Lately, I've been lying there awake at four in the morning with Barnaby Jones on TV. I'm okay with an action show about an elderly person, but I think Buddy Ebsen should have worn glasses, had a younger person drive him everywhere and turned down his hearing aid before shooting people.
Look at Art Carney in The Late Show. He did those things and more.
Buddy Ebsen should have been crabby instead of folksy.
Ebsen wasn't THAT old, but Art Carney was only 59.
The lesson here for young aspiring filmmakers is that ANYBODY can be an action star.
No comments:
Post a Comment