Comments on: The Okay Gatsby http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/the-okay-gatsby/ david cairns Tue, 21 May 2013 12:28:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: DCairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/the-okay-gatsby/#comment-417 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:27:59 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/the-okay-gatsby/#comment-417 I wish I could have seen her cabaret act, singing Bowie’s “Time” while dressed as a stormtrooper (Nazi, not Imperial).

]]> By: David Ehrenstein http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/the-okay-gatsby/#comment-415 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:17:16 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/the-okay-gatsby/#comment-415 Karen Black is at her most unforgettable in The Day of the Locust.

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/the-okay-gatsby/#comment-408 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:59:31 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/the-okay-gatsby/#comment-408 Sam W’s kind of like that in every film, so he’s ideal — if you actually need the character in a film at all. Maybe the camera should have his role.

Is there a really successful film or TV adaptation of Fitzgerald out there at all?

I vaguely thought the Pat Hobby stories could make a good mini-sitcom, they have some of the same great cringe factor as Extras.

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