"Baked beans are off..."

[ealgylden]

I could swear I've taken this before (nicked from cruisedirector this time). I vaguely remember getting Andy McNab and thinking "What the hell?" I must have been feeling violent and tortured that day. Since it's so obvious where each option comes from, it's kind of fun to pick answers randomly to see who carries the day, like, what will two Boromirs, one Mellors, one Sean Miller, one Partridge and two Alec Trevelyans equal? Oh. Um. Mmm. There's a thought...

What kind of Bean addict are you?

Comments

Re: McNab?

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, that's awful! Are you going to be okay?

Sean did indeed play McNab in a version of Bravo Two Zero that came out in 1999 or so (Compleat Sean Bean (http://www.compleatseanbean.com/bravo.html) has some pics and info and stuff). The only time I saw it I was really out of it (turned out I had pneumonia, but we didn't know that at the time), but what I got of it was pretty good. Violent, of course, and hard to watch at times (unless you're delirious, which makes torture fun), but well acted. It was nice to see Sean as something other than "Evil, Doomed Guy" or "Sexy, Naked, Wrong-Choice Guy", too (though there's nothing wrong with either of those). It's still in print, too, which makes it easier to find. Sharpe's, now, is a major addiction of mine (Hornblower on land, how could I resist?). I have some old, fuzzy, taped-off-PBS copies of most of the series, but one of these days I'll sell a kidney or something and get the whole shebang on DVD.

Re: McNab?

[kathlaw.livejournal.com]

I was dumb and lifted something with my body twisted sideways. Always a stupid thing to do, but especially once past 40. The codeine and lying on the floor doing the back stretching exercises from two previous bouts of physical therapy post-car accidents took care of it. Thanks.

Cool! on Bravo Two Zero. Problem is, I don't think it's available here. I support copyright laws as a writer, but I hate the licensing agreement part that allows some things in some countries and not others. Hugh Jackman in Oklahoma is available on DVD in Australia, for example, but not Region 1 DVDs.

I do intend to get Hornblower on DVD eventually too. :-) In fact I was one of the essay winners on the A&E site, winning a signed photo of Jamie Bambur, which since it wasn't Ioan, I promptly sold off on ebay.

Sympathies on the past pneumonia. Been there, done that, still have pneumonia-induced asthma that hits on occasion requiring my ibuterol inhaler.