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To: SuziQ

Sure have, good read. Read them all; the movie adaptations were mostly credible. The actor that played Leaphorn, Wes Studi, was very good. I liked Lou Diamond Philips as Jim Chee. Some have been on PBS; others have been on regular channels.


1,158 posted on 12/16/2006 5:42:11 AM PST by osagebowman
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When did Lou Diamond Phillips play Jim Chee? I've only seen the adaptations on PBS where Adam Beach is playing Chee. Beach was the Navajo Code Talker in the movie Windtalkers, and he also played Ira Hayes in the recent Flag of our Fathers. Interestingly, Beach is not American, he's Canadian, born in Manitoba.

I didn't like the changes made to the stories by whoever wrote the screenplays for PBS. The tales are really rich, and a lot of that was lost in those video adaptations.

1,173 posted on 12/16/2006 9:00:56 AM PST by SuziQ
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