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Submitted by Lindsay Perigo on Sun, 2006-10-22 11:04.

We know Casey's fiction will hit the Hollywood big-time soon enough. What he hasn't told us is that he's already been in the movies. It's a long weekend in NZ, & at such times the TV movie fare is often, mercifully, better than usual. Tonight I've had the pleasure of watching Aviator, where di Caprio is wonderful in his exchanges with the pull-peddling senator (if only he'd been around to play Roark instead of the wooden, dumb Cooper!), & The Emperor's Club, which, despite some worrying altruistic bromides near the beginning, is a marvellous hymn to integrity & antidote to pomowanking who-gives-a-shit-ism. Casey Fahy plays the part of Martin Blyth. And he's never said a word! Smiling

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Yes, Scott,

Submitted by Casey on Tue, 2006-10-24 02:33.

There are a few mysteries out there on the Internet whose invisible hand I shall not make visible. I believe the film was "Kid Mann" about a one-armed fifteen-year-old gunslinger who takes on all challengers... Again, it wasn't, ahem, me. I had nothing to do with that.

...or consecrated in mirth?

Submitted by l on Tue, 2006-10-24 01:07.

I see Steven Culp's headline snap at IMDb and think, "is it just me or does he remind me of - ?" - and find great-minds-think-alike-and-so-do-we solidarity in this confirmation from his bio: "Has played Robert Kennedy twice. Once in Thirteen Days (2000) and the other in Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996) (TV)".

I was stunned to learn also after Googling a reference in that bio of the nightmare confronting Culp last New Year's Day when his sister, her husband (who had fronted the acclaimed late-1980s indie-rock duo House of Freaks) and children were murdered in their Richmond, Va., area house by a couple of degree-zero career-criminal lowlifes, soon caught, who left a crime scene which hardened veterans choked to admit was as ghastly as any they had confronted.

To return to the infinitely sunnier Mr. Fahy (and not for nothing do the words "Casey" and "sunshine" band like brothers), I admit to having been "fooled" a few years ago not by any onscreen doubles but by a sly bit of cyber-trapping. While reading the early web-essays which became the embryo of James Valliant's The Passion of Ayn Rand's Critics at Casey's blog "Escaping America" (a liberation sought, no doubt, by those admitting a few too many exposures to, e.g., "A Horse With No Name" and "Sister Golden Hair"), I Googled for more of Valliant's and Fahy's online writings - and discovered an odd movie listing at, I think, the popular movie-rating site RottenTomatoes.com. It was a listing for what appeared to have been a western short titled "Kid" something-or-other-comic-sounding, whose lead actors included the aforementioned Lennon and McCartney of Del-Mar-velous West Coast rational romanticism, along with one or two of their schoolmates Aaron and/or Mark, themselves writers of no small distinction.

Further investigation revealed the "film" to have been a page entered as a test on another site to track pirating of proprietary content. Which purpose my own (Sam) spadework seemed to have "unwittily" fulfilled.

Bummer. I'd have paid what Yogi Berra once called "cash money" to have seen either of the two in a fast-draw set-piece - even if it resembled uncannily the opening credits to The Monkees, gunbelts slipping to the ground and all.

Separated at birth?

Submitted by Ross Elliot on Mon, 2006-10-23 23:52.

Not me!

Submitted by Casey on Mon, 2006-10-23 21:40.

Although I see that this Culp fellow did play a character named Robert Campbell... Though a film critic for a while, I have not been a film actor, except for when I was an extra in King Kong -- the 1976 version with Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lang, and a robotic Kong that never worked the whole night we were in a studio backlot in L.A. pretending to be in Shay Stadium. Now I'm a writer -- you all can read my entry into the Sherlock Holmes short story contest at Writing.com, if you want to see some of my stuff, or order The Bot Story at Amazon.com. Eye "The Haunting of Sherlock Holmes" is located at http://www.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/462824. I also was lead writer on the video game "Red Dead Revolver" which is a spaghetti western in the Clint Eastwood mold that Rock Star Games came out with a couple years ago...

Website

Submitted by Daniel Walden on Mon, 2006-10-23 14:37.

The school website is right here. The section on academics is probably what you'll want to look at the most; it has the diploma requirements (which differ depending on when one entered the school) and course descriptions for all the departments.

That school got a website?

Submitted by Ross Elliot on Mon, 2006-10-23 05:40.

That school got a website?

Believe it or not...

Submitted by Daniel Walden on Mon, 2006-10-23 02:47.

The school in The Emperor's Club is based very, very heavily on the one I now attend, right down to the school mottos of "Finis Origine Pendet" and "Non Sibi" as well as the school color (crimson/maroon). We've even got the requisite amazing classics teacher who's adored by the student body.