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  "thread": {
    "id": 614,
    "subject": "Casting: not!",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-05-14T08:25:10+00:00",
    "last": "1998-05-14T08:25:10+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0011-0034@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Stephenson",
        "address": "pws at ifh.de"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-14T08:25:10+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Casting: not!",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I had some nightmares of my own last night:\n\nSev:  Travolta \n (not that I've got anything against him, it's just that\n he has `late twentieth century' written all over his face; I would\n constantly expect him to throw off his cloak and `get down'.)\nThecla:  Goldie Hawn\nDorcas:  Pia Zadora\n (Bonham-Carter was a nice idea, but I don't see Dorcas in corsets,\n which surely gets written into her contracts?)\nAgia:  Bette Midler\nBaldanders:  Sly Himself\nTalos:  Dustin\n (maybe this works OK if you're a Hoffman fan, but it makes me shudder)\nAutarch #-1:  Vincent Price\nJonas:  John Belushi\nHethor:  Billy Crystal\nJolenta:  Miriam Margolyes\n (if you don't know her, think `matronly', no insult intended, just\n wrong for the part etc. etc.)\nPalaemon:  Rowan Atkinson\nDrotte)            ( Mike Myers\nRoche )  whichever ( Dana Carvey\n \"The necropolis gate is locked!  Denied!\"\n\nThe director is Edward D. Wood, who wrote this moving voice-over\nprologue specially: \"If you walked down the street, and saw him, you\nwould think, `This is the future'.  Or is it the past?  And the next\ntime you go out and see a man in a black coat, you think to yourself,\n`Is he a torturer?', and it may be he is.\"\n\nYou can cast Monty Python and the Holy Claw yourself (\"But I'm your\nAutarch!\" \"Well, I didn't vote for you.\"), and imagine Mickey Mouse as\n`The Torturer's Apprentice'.  `The Hitchhiker's Guide to Briah' is\ngoing to be difficult.\n\npws"
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