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m Lin Carter
and hoped to sign Sir Ralph Richardson for the part of Sharajsha the White Wizard. Thongor himself remains uncast, but for the part of Princess Sumia I suggested that if he could find a luscious seventeenyear-old Chinese girl who looked like a teen-aged Nancy Kwan, she'd be perfect for the part.
. (And if he can find a luscious seventeenyear-old Chinese girl who looks like a teen-aged Nancy Kwan, I want her phone number! (cackle * shriek * snort! ),
Jim Danforth is doing the monster animation effects, and already has some sketches underway, which I saw at Tucson last month, when I was there for the SF-FantasyHorror World Expo. Danforth, maybe you remember, animated the film "When Dinosaurs Rule the Earth, "
So the first three of my Lemurian books are going to be movies,
There will also be a Conan movie, as you perhaps already know, I will have a lot less to do with that, of course, than with the Thongors: but it looks as if it's Sword and Sorcery time at last in Glitterville,
Other news, for those who may be interested, The seventh of my ERBian novels about Jandar of Callisto (and Friends) is due out soon from Dell, The title was originally "Jungle Maid of Callisto" --hi, out there, all you Tarzan fans! -but the Messrs. Dell, for their own Inscrutable Reasons, decided to change it to "Ylana of Callisto" and now, of course, all the anti-Carterian reviewers will accuse me of a sleazy attempt to rip off Burroughs’ "Llana of Gathol. " (*Sigh*) I am three-quarters done with the eighth in this series, which I have titled "Hidden Valley of Callisto, " But only Crom knows what Dell will decide to retitle it...
And a question: quite some number of Penny Dreadfuls back, one of your Esteemed Columnists mentioned the name of the town where Vic and Sade lived, in the wonderful old radio comedy show of that name, I seem to have misfiled my copy of that issue, so, can anybody tell me what the town was called? And the source of the data? And does anybody out there in Whizzbangerland have any of the original Vic and Sade scripts? I would gleefully pay xeroxing costs and postage for copies of same, (Editor's note: Vic and Sade lived in Crooper, Illinois, and a number of the show's scripts were reprinted in a 1972 McGraw-Hill hardcover called The Small House Halfway Up In The Next Block, )
Incidentally, I plan to be in Toronto next April to attend the annual Dorsai meeting, at which I am possibly going to receive an honorary commission as Colonel of Dorsai, Cap'n George, is there any chance of my coming over and spending an evening with you and some of the local Whizzbangers? The beer is on me,
Happy Magic to One's friends up there in the Great Northern Wilderness,