[wayspooled]

William Goldman's "The Princess Bride and Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer winning "Lonesome Dove" (to emmy winning tv miniseries) are probably the most enjoyable adaptations I've seen.

Princess Bride has been much commented on so I'll skip that except to say I did love the movie more than the book. Hardly a month passes that I don't hear or make some popular culture reference to it.

Lonesome Dove (the original mini-series, not the follow up ones or the weekly series) was kinda phenomenal. So very many top notch actors and actresses, amazing score, brilliant screenplay of an even more brilliant book (but the book didn't have the Poledouris music or Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones (his perf. of lifetime), Anjelica Huston, Diane Lane, Steve Buscemi and lots of other fine actors. Sometimes I just pop in the dvd to watch the beginning hour just for the pure enjoyment of it, when I don't have six hours to spend.