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Bo-bo-book haul! 🕵️♂️🥳
Hit my favorite used bookstore for the first time in a long time and was not disappointed. I might have gone a bit overboard with the mysteries and thrillers. 😅
Finding the Ruth Rendell made my day because Sins of the Father (pubbed in the UK as A New Lease of Death) is insanely hard to find: from what I can tell, only Amazon had it and they wanted $14 for a brand new copy. I liked From Doon with Death and want to continue reading the Inspector Wexford series, but I don't like it enough to spend that much on a copy.
I bought Murder on Bamboo Lane because the main character is a bicycle cop and that's a novelty that I can get behind. 🚴♀️👮♀️
#a test of wills#charles todd#inspector ian rutledge#kris longknife#mike shepherd#murder on bamboo lane#naomi hirahara#ellie rush#bernie rhodenbarr#lawrence block#amber series#roger zelazny#inspector lynley#elizabeth george#inspector wexford#ruth rendell#spencer series#spenser series#spenser: for hire#robert b. parker#cliff janeway#john dunning#chris pavone#brad parks#ruth galloway#elly griffiths#thrillers#mysteries#mystery fiction#science fiction
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Spenser: For Hire - At the River's Edge
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John Finn in Spenser: For Hire S2.E12 I Confess (1987)
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Please watch Spenser. Spenser has everything.
Boston in the 80's!
A long-term established romantic couple who are also best friends who just actually fucking like each other and have fun together!
Hot Boston Townie who offers you baking soda to drink!
Hawk, being Hawk, asserting his superiority and laughing at Spenser smelling like a fire!
Also Hawk, avoiding eye contact and not being able to appropriately modulate his tone or facial expressions because you don't actually have to learn to mask when you're a professional gunman!
#spenser for hire#spenser#hawk#susan silverman#robert urich#avery brooks#barbara stock#my gifs#i have so much to say about hawk being autistic but that's a post for another day. i do not think he was supposed to be in the novels.#but he definitely is in the show
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Spenser: For Hire
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Media Update 3/9/23
Expendables 2 (2012) and 3 (2014)
I decided to mash these two together because all of these are basically the same movie (not a bad thing). A group of mercenaries works to save the world from some bad dudes while being loyal to each other. Not a lot of plot to get in the way of the action. These movies are designed to support and showcase aging action movie legends. The core group is Sylvester…
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Jefferson Mappin in 1980s & 1990s.
Jefferson Mappin is a Canadian actor born in Montreal. His film career started in 1978 with a small role in the Canadian/UK crime drama Tomorrow Never Comes starring Oliver Reed and Raymond Burr. I had never heard of him until I saw him in The Freshman a couple of weeks ago. At 6'5" he is always able to find work.
Jefferson Mappin
Most of Mappin's early work was in small roles in Canadian films that as of yet haven't been digitalized. The above stills are from the 1988 Canada/US Sitcom about a professional wrestler, Learning the Ropes, starring football player Lyle Alzado and often real professional wrestlers of the time made guest appearances. Only 13 episodes were produced. The first photo was from the pilot episode and it looks like it was from somebody's old VHS home recording. The next photo is a little better. Jefferson Mappin played a wrestler called Cheetah. It isn't known how many episodes he appeared in.
In 1990 Mappin played a pro wrestler again on an episode of the US/Canada crime drama, T and T, starring Mr. T of course.
Jefferson Mappin played an insane asylum resident in the film Beautiful Dreamers based on true events in 1990.
The Freshman, 1990, starring Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick would fit in right here but Jefferson was barely visible in his scene, so I left it out any photo.
In 1991, Jefferson Mappin plays a real estate agent in the fantasy/drama White Light.
and Mappin as a dry-cleaning employee in an episode of Tropical Heat (nee Sweating Bullets).
Here is Jefferson Mappin as Fatty Rossiter in 1992 in Clint Eastwood's western, Unforgiven.
Here is Jefferson Mappin as a gun shop owner being questioned about a gun purchased in an episode of the TV series Counterstrike in 1993. I like the way he is pressed up against the counter.
Jefferson Mappin is a suspect responsible for a missing girl and human trafficking in this TV movie Spenser: Ceremony in 1993 made 5 years after the series Spenser for Hire ended.
Jefferson again as a gun shop owner in 1995 in an episode of the comedy/drama Due South.
Jefferson Mappin as a tech scientist who loses his memory in an episode of TekWar in 1995.
Jefferson Mappin as a Little League Coach in the TV Movie Shining Time Station: Second Chances in 1995.
Jefferson Mappin plays a Federal Agent in the Sci-Fi Action film Expect No Mercy in 1995.
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I'm rewatching the pilot of Spenser for Hire because I'm thinking about doing a little write up on the series and I just
I am DYING at how hilariously divorced Spenser and Hawk are in the pilot
Like, if you're watching this without knowledge of the rest of series (or the books), the pilot makes Hawk out to be this very dangerous man with a dark and troubled past, and Spenser to have known him for, essentially, crime reasons
But if you're watching knowing the characters it's just like. Okay. Spenser and Hawk were friends and worked together for years before the series but Hawk has been away for a while and clearly something has happened between them because like...
THE TERSE GREETING. THE SUNGLASSES. THE ZOOM. THE GUY WHO HIRED SPENSER LOOKING AT BOTH OF THEM LIKE 'UHHHH'
And then the first thing Hawk says to Spenser, possibly for the first time in a few years, is basically just: AND YOUR CAR SUCKS
The all time most divorced men
Like, even the client knows
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I have new kittens (🎉) and a deeply obnoxious cold (🫤😷) so I've been spending a lot of time on a couch petting new babies and watching what the streaming companies call "nostalgia TV" and I think of as pre-copaganda mysteries (Murder She Wrote, Spenser for Hire, Columbo, Magnum PI (OG), etc.) And it is hilarious 1: how often I recognize someone but have no idea why (because 30-40 years ago) but also 2: how many plot complications revolve around figuring out where someone else is because you can't just call their cell phone 😅😂
Kitty Tax:
Tom (bigger) & Tilly (itty bitty) as chosen and named by Things 1 & 2 when we stopped by the rescue we got Jade from just to support their new 'cattic'. We had not brought a carrier or anything! And yet. (They gave us one of theirs, which seems backwards when we were supposed to be asking what they needed, but having someone adopt two of the clowder was clearly more important.) 🤣🩵
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KEVIN CONROY, PREEMINENT VOICE OF BATMAN, PASSES AWAY AT AGE 66
NEW YORK, NY (November 11, 2022) - Actor Kevin Conroy, the most beloved voice of Batman in the animated history of the character, died Thursday at age 66 after a short battle with cancer.
A noted stage, film and television performer, Conroy rose to unparalleled voice acting fame as the title character of the landmark Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1996). He would establish never-to-be-broken records as the quintessential voice of Batman, bringing the super hero to animated life in nearly 60 different productions, including 15 films – highlighted by the acclaimed Batman: Mask of the Phantasm; 15 animated series, spanning nearly 400 episodes and more than 100 hours of television; as well as two dozen video games. Conroy was also featured as a live-action Bruce Wayne in the Arrowverse’s 2019-2020 “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover event.
In recent years, Conroy was a notable fixture on the Con circuit, greeting fans with the same warmth, respect and enthusiasm they reserved for him.
“Kevin was far more than an actor whom I had the pleasure of casting and directing – he was a dear friend for 30+ years whose kindness and generous spirit knew no boundaries,” said Emmy Award winning casting/dialogue director Andrea Romano. “Kevin’s warm heart, delightfully deep laugh and pure love of life will be with me forever.”
“Kevin was perfection,” recalled Mark Hamill, who redefined the Joker playing opposite Conroy’s Batman. “He was one of my favorite people on the planet, and I loved him like a brother. He truly cared for the people around him – his decency shone through everything he did. Every time I saw him or spoke with him, my spirits were elevated.”
Born on November 30, 1955 in Westbury, New York, and raised in Westport, CT, Conroy began establishing himself in the acting community while under the tutelage of John Houseman at The Julliard School – where he studied alongside the likes of Christopher Reeve, Frances Conroy, and his roommate Robin Williams.
Conroy began his career following his love of the theatre, keeping him on stage in both New York and at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. The actor received rave reviews for his starring performances in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Public Theater, Eastern Standard on Broadway, Arthur Miller’s The Last Yankee, and in the title role of Hamlet at the 1984 New York Shakespeare Festival. In addition, he performed in films and television – most notably in the mid-1980s when he had recurring roles on Dynasty, Tour of Duty and Ohara; successful runs on soap operas Search for Tomorrow and Another World; and guest roles on popular series like Cheers, Murphy Brown, Spenser: For Hire and Matlock.
But it was his incomparable, nuanced performance as the voice of Batman that put Conroy on the map – and the fans’ radar – when Batman: The Animated Series debuted on September 5, 1992. From that point on, Conroy would forever be linked to the Dark Knight – in TV series like Batman Beyond and Justice League/Justice League Unlimited; films ranging from Batman: the Killing Joke and Batman: Gotham Knight to Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero and Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman; and more than two dozen video games.
“Kevin was a brilliant actor,” Hamill said. “For several generations, he has been the definitive Batman. It was one of those perfect scenarios where they got the exact right guy for the exact right part, and the world was better for it. His rhythms and subtleties, tones and delivery – that all also helped inform my performance. He was the ideal partner – it was such a complementary, creative experience. I couldn’t have done it without him. He will always be my Batman.”
“Kevin brought a light with him everywhere,” said Paul Dini, producer of Batman: The Animated Series, “whether in the recording booth giving it his all, or feeding first responders during 9/11, or making sure every fan who ever waited for him had a moment with their Batman. A hero in every sense of the word. Irreplaceable. Eternal.”
Conroy is survived by his husband Vaughn C. Williams, sister Trisha Conroy, and brother Tom Conroy. Memorial services are pending.
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