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wcames
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CHARLIE BASS
Posted: 26 Mar 08 7:10 PM

OK! I kneed to know something.

I knew the name Charlie Bass from someplace else, when I first read book 1. I couldn't remember for a while where I had heard the name. Then it came to me. Today I heard the name again and now have the resource to ask. Is Charlie named after the character in the movie "The Sands of Iwo Jima"?
Finucane
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Re: CHARLIE BASS
Posted: 26 Mar 08 8:46 PM
 wcames wrote

OK! I kneed to know something.

I knew the name Charlie Bass from someplace else, when I first read book 1. I couldn't remember for a while where I had heard the name. Then it came to me. Today I heard the name again and now have the resource to ask. Is Charlie named after the character in the movie "The Sands of Iwo Jima"?

Since these stories are a joint effort you'll need David's input to be sure but from my standpoint, no.  I knew an old-time NCO named Charles Bass in VN back in '62.  He was killed at the Ia Drang in '65.  Maybe influenced me when I wrote my contributions to his character but he's an archetype, an influence if you will, of all the good NCOs we've known both in real life and in literature
eric_bean34
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Re: CHARLIE BASS
Posted: 26 Mar 08 9:38 PM
 Finucane wrote
 wcames wrote

OK! I kneed to know something.

I knew the name Charlie Bass from someplace else, when I first read book 1. I couldn't remember for a while where I had heard the name. Then it came to me. Today I heard the name again and now have the resource to ask. Is Charlie named after the character in the movie "The Sands of Iwo Jima"?

Since these stories are a joint effort you'll need David's input to be sure but from my standpoint, no.  I knew an old-time NCO named Charles Bass in VN back in '62.  He was killed at the Ia Drang in '65.  Maybe influenced me when I wrote my contributions to his character but he's an archetype, an influence if you will, of all the good NCOs we've known both in real life and in literature



I picture him looking like Michael Chiklis or Neil McDonough
Skink
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Re: CHARLIE BASS
Posted: 27 Mar 08 12:54 PM Modified By Skink on 3/27/2008 12:57:04 PM)

Here is who Bass looks like to me. With out the scar and a much smaller nose. His name is  Ron Perlman. He played Hellboy in "Hell Boy" I don't know why Bass is like him in my mind, but hey it's my imagination. I wonder what Bass looks like to yall

 

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eric_bean34
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Re: CHARLIE BASS
Posted: 27 Mar 08 1:23 PM Modified By eric_bean34 on 3/27/2008 1:25:48 PM)
Ron is an excellent actor whose career I have followed since he was in the TV show Beauty and the Beast. He was also in Aliens 4 as a smuggler and several other scifi movies. But he doesn't have the solid features that a Marine would have in Bass's physique. His persona isn't larger than life. But thats just my take.
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