tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443515033089669860.post7878525767752639521..comments2024-03-27T13:26:32.587-07:00Comments on Mystery Fanfare: Robert Downey Jr as Perry MasonJanet Rudolphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07395834961880172395noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443515033089669860.post-87629457772501434512011-10-10T10:24:01.380-07:002011-10-10T10:24:01.380-07:00Can't help wondering if the "Gambino"...Can't help wondering if the "Gambino" referred to is Peter Gambino, CEce Caruso's fiance in Susan Kandel's mystery series, which includes "I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason."Auntie Knickershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08854138665883068803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443515033089669860.post-34692081113078833872011-10-10T10:22:39.653-07:002011-10-10T10:22:39.653-07:00Can't help wondering if the "Gambino"...Can't help wondering if the "Gambino" referred to is Peter Gambino, Cece Caruso's fiance in Susan Kandel's mystery series which includes "I Dreamed I married Perry Mason." ???Auntie Knickershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08854138665883068803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443515033089669860.post-54369124786358629142011-10-06T06:04:08.862-07:002011-10-06T06:04:08.862-07:00Burr may have cemented the role on TV and firmly p...Burr may have cemented the role on TV and firmly placed in our minds what Perry Mason looks like and acts like, but when I read the four books from the earliest part of the series I pictured someone dashing, smart alecky, a little bit sexy, and tough. He's supposed to be something of a player, too. All the women - especially Della - are always falling all over him and flirting with him. Mason in the books is not the monotoned, stern, and nearly emotionless man absent of all sex appeal that Raymond Burr made him. I think Downey is very close to how I pictured Mason. He's closer to Mason than Johnny Depp is to Nick Charles anyway.J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443515033089669860.post-43893606590624892642011-10-05T23:27:05.963-07:002011-10-05T23:27:05.963-07:00Well, I agree, Raymond Burr is Perry Mason. Yet R...Well, I agree, Raymond Burr is Perry Mason. Yet Robert Downey Jr., how can you not love him in any part. He is just wonderful in anything he does. And at least it isn't Tom Cruise.Janet Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05244319617761464786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443515033089669860.post-46350007862114910862011-10-05T13:10:38.165-07:002011-10-05T13:10:38.165-07:00Me, too. I have trouble seeing anyone else as Maso...Me, too. I have trouble seeing anyone else as Mason. I'm also pretty sure they will warp the books, cheap out the TV series set-ups and go their own way, because, after all, it's all about box office, isn't it? Bah. Leave well enough alone. The only good thing I can see here is that maybe some new people will buy the TV series on DVD.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1443515033089669860.post-71213145683965269622011-10-05T12:50:31.289-07:002011-10-05T12:50:31.289-07:00Janet - Agreed! I honestly can't see Robert Do...Janet - Agreed! I honestly can't see Robert Downey, Jr. as Perry Mason...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com