#screen tests

Whilst browsing youtube I found that SabCat a film stock footage company, has posted some of the unreleased screen tests for the casting o the leads in the 1970's Hardy Boys series. Just a little scene to gauge the chemistry of the actors. It looks like they had already decided to get Shaun Cassidy in as Joe, and were trying out other Frank's.

So we have Richard Bekins & Shaun Cassidy

Gosh 70's shirt collars could be very intimidating, couldn't they?

Richard Bekins has had a fifty year career as a character and soap actor.

Then we have Radames Pera & Shaun Cassidy

I've never heard of him, but "Radames Pera" is an AMAZING name and it turns out amongst other roles, he played "Grasshopper", the young version of Richard Carradine's "Caine" seen in the many flashbacks of the early 70's "Kung Fu" series,

There's even one where they try Shaun as Frank!

Shaun Cassidy & Leif Garret

Looking at how tiny Leif is, you can see why it wouldn't work the other way round.

Before finally getting to their eventual choices:

Parker Stevenson & Shaun Cassidy

The 2024 books! Here’s everything I read this year, minus picture books (though it was a great year for them 😜…Chloe and the Fireflies came out, but also I loved Spider in the Well, We Are Definitely Human, the new Charlie and Mouse book, As Edward Imagined, The Teeny Weeny Unicorn, Pig Town Party, and probably some more that I missed).

- Went on Jillian Tamaki and Adrian Tomine sprees

- Read some standout poetry collections (I Do Everything I’m Told! Couplets! Homie!)

- Finally got into The First Cat in Space series, and wow, the silly cartoon episodic sensibility is perfect

-Reread a bunch of graphic novels in November, and they totally held up

- Loved a lot of beginnings of books (and was let down by the endings, which was also a trend in my reading last year)

- Ran to the library a zillion times, read DRCs on time-ish and wrote shelf talkers

- Moved 5-8 boxes of books, but also got rid of 2-3 bagfuls

Nico screen test, 1966.

Marisa Berenson screen test, 1965.

Lou Reed screen test, 1966.

Donovan screen test, 1966.