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eric_bean34
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Re: CHARLIE BASS
Posted: 27 Mar 08 9:59 PM
I can only hope the portrayal of him in my script has done him justice.
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Re: CHARLIE BASS
Posted: 28 Mar 08 5:54 AM Modified By Finucane on 3/28/2008 5:57:14 AM)
Eric, I think you have done that, so hats off to you, Mr.Script Writer.  But I think David's right, the real Charlie Bass would be tickled to read his character the way we've created him.  Last time I saw him was standing in line at the Saigon post exchange.  He was a newly minted master sergeant and he remembered me from our days together in Advisory Team 27 back in '62-'63.  (It was Charlie who sold me my first handgun, a Smith & Wesson M39 9mm semi-auto.)  He said, "Cragg, you ought to come up and join the cav!"  Seeing how that operation turned out, just as glad I passed up the offer.  I also knew Humbert R ("Rocky") Versace, who got the Medal of Honor posthumously for the way he resisted the Viet Cong while their captive from September 1963 to October 1965).  You may remember that since the Medal was conferred only recently, in 2002, after a long struggle by his family and friends to get it approved.  Rocky was advisor to the 5th Vietnamese Infantry Division's reconnaissance platoon when I knew him in Advisory Team 27.  He was captured in September 1963 while advising a Vietnamese unit in the Mekong Delta and then executed by the VC in October 1965.  Nick Rowe was a prisoner along with Rocky and he wrote about that time in his book, FIVE YEARS TO FREEDOM. 
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Re: CHARLIE BASS
Posted: 29 Mar 08 9:50 AM

 eric_bean34 wrote
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.

He is a great acter, his humorous nature in those couple roles would lead me to go a different direction with Charlie Bass. When I first read the books, the actor that popped into my mind was Tom Berenger. He has done a few Combat NCO roles(Platoon, Sniper, Sniper 2) and he acts the self-confidence/actions speak louder that words perfect for me.

He might be a little small for the role, and have to back off the martial arts a bit for the role, and is a little new on the scene, but Jason Statham I think is a workable Shultz.

Just some ideas,

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Re: CHARLIE BASS
Posted: 29 Mar 08 2:09 PM
The Charlie Bass as we envision him is a runt with frizzy hair and a squeaky voice.  Where did you guys get this he-man image from?  I guess we'll have to make that clear in the next book.  I'll have to talk to Eric and get Richard Simmons to play Bass in the movie.
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Re: CHARLIE BASS
Posted: 29 Mar 08 2:15 PM Modified By Skink on 3/29/2008 2:37:55 PM)

My Bass has a MANLY voice. Not a squeaky voice.

Have fun without me. See you All next week

Jep'ray since you are my 2nd in command, keep every one up to date on current events. And find out what happened to the Evil One, we have not seen him around latley.

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