My Fantasy Casting for the Retrieval Team

[davedove]

Way back when, Panache had a thread where different actors were proposed for the characters in his story.

Here is my fantasy casting for the Retrieval Team:

Ms. Starling

Catherine Bell

Ms. Thrush

Charlize Theron

Ms. Hawk

Alicia Witt

Ms. Raven

Gabrielle Union

Ms. Falcon

Ali Larter

Ms. Swan

Lucy Liu

Ms. Stork

Eva Mendes

Of course, this is all fantasy, but it is also sort of the way I picture the different characters, which helps me picture my stories.

I haven't cast myself yet, but I'm thinking George Clooney.

[Dirk Skene]

........I haven't cast myself yet, but I'm thinking George Clooney.

No vanity in your family You've got it all

[davedove]

And, just introduced in my latest story:

Ms. Partridge

Kate Winslet

[Wompet]

Now I have to look up which one gave Wompet the Dog a rub in your first story ...

[davedove]

Now I have to look up which one gave Wompet the Dog a rub in your first story ...

Actually, it was the second story "The Girl with the Silvery Smile."

Our exchange:

... speaking of promises, wasn't I supposed to get my ears rubbed by Ms. Hawk?

Rest assured, all eight ladies of my team probably gave you plenty of that.

[Pleater]

Oh I think I am going to like it here. What excellent taste I discover in the portraits of the fair sex.

Greetings, gentlemen of X Marks the Scot.

Allow me to introduce myself, in the appropriate syntax.

Brown. James Brown.

I have been entrusted with the means of entry to your forum by Madam Pleater, General Director of MHICE, and entreated to continue the narration of her sojourn in the alternate reality where Fashion Furs imposed its rule.

I have never yet refused a request from lady, hence my arrival here.

I am restricted to this 'off topic' section having given my word to venture no further before the ladies left on their latest attempt to resolve some of the paradoxes of real and unreal time within this continuum.

The early explorers, starting at some future date, caused considerable disruption in the past as they did not realise that they were moving between realities and actually causing conjunctions. In many cases these were beneficial, driving evolution, continental drift and so on, but also causing chaotic situations sometimes revealed by modern science, such as impossible alterations in DNA, or the fossil record showing one date for an event and the living tissues indicating another. They are of course all correct, just for different realities.

The term continuum is one which was coined some time ahead of now, before it was realised just how non continuous most time lines in this area would become in the past.

The ladies are proving to be more able to resolve paradoxes, combining the characteristics of numeracy and femininity seems to be the key.

This has now freed me from the calls upon my time which have hitherto kept me away from this quiet area on the edge of the New Forest, where the colours of Autumn are, though it seemed impossible to imagine last year, even more splendid. I have spend many happy hours in wandering the countryside, and even attempted to capture scenes in paint, but now that rain is becoming all too frequent I have removed indoors, and have been spending time in the Rotunda, working on some of the devices and equipment which Madam 'liberated' on her travels, and also in this little suite of rooms at the end of the converted mews, which is far cosier and has the advantage of not having a kitchen - which was quite difficult to arrange in this temple to the culinary arts.

But now, afternoon tea has been brought and poured for me. I must attend to it, but I will return shortly to further investigate this most interesting and diverting experience.

Farewell for the moment

J. Brown, Esq.

[davedove]

Quick, Ms. Starling, do we have a dossier on this Brown fellow?

[Pleater]

Ah Ms Starling - with those amazing hazel eyes.

If you do not have a dossier, dear lady, allow me to provide any information you require - you can be certain of my personal attention anytime.

Do wear blue - deep clear blue should be most flattering to your unusual colouring.

J. Brown Esq.

[davedove]

And just introduced in my tale:

Ms. Crane

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I picture Ms. Crane's personality as sort of a cross between Elena in "The Mask of Zorro" and Velma Kelly in "Chicago."

[mbhandy]

I kept wondering when Catherine Zeta-Jones Was going to turn-up.

Too weird I just saw on Bio a bio of her. That is just too weird.

MrBill