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Received a "Happy New Year" email from the Loftybeck brothers. There's some movement on the "Brown Box" and a forthcoming "announcement" for what it's worth. I guess we'll have to wait and see what the big deal is all about. I was hoping that brown box would have come out since they produced the prototype, but years of delays at this point have dimmed some hopes. We'll see I guess.
VeryGawJus
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Any news on all things Alan Fivehouse? I don't believe that the "Wagging a Finger at the Dead" DVD was ever released, or filmed to begin with, but I'd love to see what it would have looked like.
Can't get a straight answer on the "brown box" which is where the Loftybeck offspring left off. The word has been mum.
Let's just hope they don't sell the franchise to Disney. 
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The new Alan Fivehouse??
Very Gaw Jus
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Aug 5, 2014 - 8:39 AM
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Jim Phelps
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Over on the "Let's Refute the Expert" thread, FSM's own WILLIAMDMCCRUM publicly "references" Alan Fivehouse:
"Oh, I see what you're trying to do here, Manderley. Very disingenuous. It's clear you're referring to the recent claims about Alan Fivehouse's passing, which were of course bogus. But how were we to know? It was a reasonable mistake. Had his press-secretary in Monaco not broken his strict confidence re his secluded retreat to Bhutan, the story might have seemed probable. We all make mistakes."
To which I replied:
"William, consider yourself an honorary member of The Fivehouse Five."
By the way, Max...anytime I've got a case of the blues and I need a lift, I reach for this album cover, and I smile warmly, knowing that all is well:
The angle at which Martin Freeman is posed--like a turtle peaking out of his shell--is damn near the funniest thing ever in this thread. The funniest would be this quote from Fivehouse himself:
Alan: (Sarcastically smiling) If there is one lesson that your mother always instilled in me...(Pauses, while reaching for the hunk of cheese that is on the floor) Never underestimate the sensibilities of a cheese connoisseur - for all exceptional cheeses are never cut from the same mold..."
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The angle at which Martin Freeman is posed--like a turtle peaking out of his shell--is damn near the funniest thing ever in this thread. The funniest would be this quote from Fivehouse himself:
Alan: (Sarcastically smiling) If there is one lesson that your mother always instilled in me...(Pauses, while reaching for the hunk of cheese that is on the floor) Never underestimate the sensibilities of a cheese connoisseur - for all exceptional cheeses are never cut from the same mold..."
Strangely I came across this passage in a rare interview with Freeman from 'Luvvie' magazine some time ago, just the other day:
"It was the character of Fivehouse that drew me. I really would have liked to play Fivehouse himself, but this was the next best thing. I knew I just wanted to be a part of this, any part. The thing that drew me to Fivehouse was ... and I know this is going to sound strange ... the cheese. Cheese is a metaphor for the fulness of life.
This was a man whose passion for cheese resulted in real gall-bladder problems. He was warned, but he turned a deaf ear to the doctors. Holmes had his cocaine, Wallander had his diabetes, they all have the human flaw, you know ... the thorn in the flesh. Fivehouse had his cheese fats, but he wouldn't compromise, he kept on solving crimes and taking his tablets. I've known people like that. Gerard Depardieu and his brie fetish. 'Vive la Fromage'. To love cheese is to love life. To have bile problems and to keep on loving cheese is to love life beyond living itself. You have to admire a character like that, even if fictitious. As it happens I like cheese."
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Well, cheese and its ilk killed our dear Fred Loftybeck and if he'd had it to do over again, I think he still would have chosen to pound down heavy dairy and beef products.
Yes, and unfortunately in Fred's case, it was TACO BELL cheese and meat that killed him. Nevertheless, I had heard once that he had this affinity for Danish Fontina cheese.
MaxB
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There's a lot of debate about all this.
Loftybeck, some say, was trying to justify his own cheese-love by romanticising it, by having his great ideal detective creation as an afficionado of the same thing. It was self-bolstering.
But according to Justin Bakewell (cousin of British broadcaster Joan Bakewell) the media historian, in his paper, 'From Poirot to Fivehouse: A Post-Modern Perspective on Crime Thrillers' (Ox. 1999) the whole thing was simply to do with product placement. It's known that Loftybeck had shares in a major cheese distribution company with offices in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Brussels and Boston. According to Bakewell this may account for the frequent fromage references in both the short stories and the TV scripts. There's even a conspiracy theory that the real reason for his passing was from an unspecified narcotic, which was tactfully smokescreened as cheese-fat cholesterol related.
I doubt it myself, but with Fivehouse's crimefighting idealism, one could see why the cloak would be necessary.
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Big happenings in the Fivehouse world - including a new movie. I have to decode the drunken email from Gene Loftybeck, but it looks the fit is hitting the shan at the Loftbeck estate.
MaxB
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