Posted on 03/29/2014 8:48:58 AM PDT by EveningStar
Lorenzo Semple Jr., the creator of the campily classic Batman TV series who went on to craft such big-screen paranoid thrillers as The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor -- though he would be replaced on both films -- has died. He turned 91 on Thursday...
Semple’s résumé also includes the Steve McQueen-Dustin Hoffman escape tale Papillon (1973); Paul Newman’s Harper sequel The Drowning Pool (1975); Dino De Laurentiis’ King Kong (1976) starring Jessica Lange; and the rogue James Bond movie Never Say Never Again (1983)...
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I would have liked ‘Three Days of the Condor’ better if they hadn’t lost three days.
The book was called ‘Six Days of the Condor’.
If he had anything to do with selecting Julie Newmar to wear that Catwoman suit, he should be canonized.
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