kojak

[goldenboy]

i was shocked to discover that ving rhames is playing kojak in the new tv series. im not shocked because ving is black but because i feel the character is established in my mind as a bald white, greek bloke. however, my girlfriend completely disagrees with me, what does anyone else think?

[Piper-AK]

I'll wait and see. It'll be hard to fill what'is face's shoes whatever colour he is!

On a note of colour, when I went to see 'Macbeth' in Stratford on Avon I had to laugh because they had cast a black guy as Banquo. Banquo is the only character in the whole of the play who is actually described, as 'blonde' blah de blah - the whole point is that Shakespeare was doing a little bit of pandering to the royalty by making it look as if they descended from Banquo.

[Piper-AK]

Having read over my last post, has to be said it was years before someone black was actually cast in 'Othello' so just ignore me please....

[Drusilla]

Even in the original, I always thought it rather strange that a Greek chap was called Kojak. Isn't that a Polish or Balkan region type of name?