Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/16

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Subject: [Leica] Capa movie
From: Alex Brattell <alex@zetetic.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 10:59:20 +0000

Sal DiMarco,Jr. wrote
>
>Luggers,
>        At this point in time, there is no "Robert Capa Movie." A friend of
>mine who hero worships Capa seriously more than I, has been trying to get
>funding to do one. He has the blessing of Cornell Capa and Richard Whelan,
>Capa's biographer.     Last week he told me, he discovered a small piece of
>color film from WWII showing Capa. We surmise it might be a piece of the
>George Stevens' Kodachome home movies. I'm impatiently waiting for a VHS
>copy.
>     
>------------------------------

from 'Zentertainment' newsletter:

>>BROSNAN TO PLAY PHOTOGRAPHER CAPA

>VARIETY reports Pierce Brosnan will produce and star in 
>BLOOD AND CHAMPAGNE, a romantic drama where he'll portray 
>war photographer Robert Capa.
>

sounds dodgy!

Any other casting suggestions?

Clint Eastwood as Robert Frank
Roy Scheider as Anselm Adams
Billy Connolly as W.H Fox Talbot
Danny De Vito as Weegee
Michael Douglas as Don McCullin
Madonna as Annie Liebowitz
Jack Lemmon as Eliot Erwitt
Jack Nicholson as Brassai
Sharon Stone as Diane Arbus
John Malkovitch as Richard Avedon
Paul Newman as Ted Grant

no no no , it's all too silly!
Alex



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