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  "thread": {
    "id": 620,
    "subject": "Oops & Casting",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-05-14T14:31:51+00:00",
    "last": "1998-05-14T14:31:51+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0011-0048@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehyo at us.oracle.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-14T14:31:51+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Oops & Casting",
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          "text": "William, you're right.  I brainfarted the dates of Leeuwenhoek -\nsomehow got them confused with Pasteur's...\n\nAs for casting.\n\nOkay, if we're walking the corridors of time...\n\nSeverian:  A young Sean Connery. Or James Dean, while we're dreaming.\nVodalus:   Harrison Ford (buckling swashes all the way)\nThea:      Carrie Fisher (they just go\nHildegrin: Sam Neill\nYoung Valeria:\n           Wossername from the original \"Buffy\" film\nPalaemon:  Patrick Stewart (today)\nMalrubius: Gielgud (sorry, he's better for this aquastrian role)\nMaster(“the sick one”): \n           Forrest J. Ackerman (hey, it's a bit part...)\nThecla:    A young Liz Taylor\nRudesind:  Jimmy Shtoort\nBaldanders:\n           Andre.  Definitely Andre. (Second choice: Richard Kiel.\n           Or maybe a Mack truck.)\nDr Talos:  Who said Paul Williams?  But only if you can't talk\n           Harlan into doing it...\nAgia:      A young Bette Davis\nAgilus:    Who goes with Bette as a twin?  I dunno.\nHe-he-hethor:\n           Peter Cook\nDorcas:    Does anyone remember Apollonia?\nJolenta:   Meryl Streep -- she can do both parts.\nThe Old Guy on the Pond:\n           Henry Fonda\nThe Sibyl: Sibyl Sheppard.  No, sorry.  Make it Ruth Gordon.\nThe Old Autarch:\n           Billy Crystal\nThe Archon of Thrax:\n           Ronald Reagan\nLittle Severian:\n           McCauley Culkin -- did anyone see \"Spy Hard?\"\nSeven of Nine, I mean Loyal to the Group of Seventeen:\n           David Duchovny (I'm not kidding!)\n\n...I'm running out of steam...\n\n--Roach"
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