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azdak at 07:57am on 01/12/2007
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alterego_thon ficathon doesn't start till January 1, but we've been asked to post a "teaser" this weekend. So here's mine.
Crackfic Productions Proudly Presents:
PROJECT PYGMALION
A Man from U.N.C.L.E. / My Fair Lady / Pygmalion fusion
Suitable for ALL viewers! Of ANY age! And ANY sexual orientation!
STARRING
Illya Kuryakin as Miss Eliza Doolittle
Harry Beldon as Professor Henry Higgins
Alexander Waverly as Colonel Pickering
Napoleon Solo as Mr Freddy Eynsford-Hill
AND FEATURING
Gerald Strothers as Mr Zoltan Karpathy
TEXT by azdak and George Bernard Shaw
LYRICS by Bertolt Brecht, Lee Hazlewood, Alan Jay Lerner and azdak
PLOT SYNOPSIS
When Alexander Waverly bets Harry Beldon he cannot turn a Section Eight scientist into a top class field agent within three months, Beldon soon finds out that he has bitten off more than even he can chew. Will Kuryakin ever be able to pass as a graduate of UNCLE's Survival School? And what will happen when he is assigned to security at the Hungarian Embassy ball?
With apologies to all concerned, but especially the Henries, Messrs Beldon and Higgins...
A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME:
FROM THE JOURNAL OF HENRY BELDON
19th June 1955
Have just reviewed Jules Cutter's latest batch of recruits. Like watching an army of robots, all hulking great lantern-jawed muscle men without 2 brain cells to rub together. V. good at dodging bullets, I have no doubt, and prob. also at withstanding torture, duffing up goons, etc etc, but any idiot can be taught to do that. Am convinced Jules is imperiling future of UNCLE by this short-sighted obsession with physical prowess. Any fool can be trained to shoot straight and duck a bullet, but impossible to take man with no brain and turn him into an agent capable of independent thought, someone who remains his own man even when following orders. Must have word with Alexander about this.
alterego_thon ficathon doesn't start till January 1, but we've been asked to post a "teaser" this weekend. So here's mine.Illya Kuryakin as Miss Eliza Doolittle
Harry Beldon as Professor Henry Higgins
Alexander Waverly as Colonel Pickering
Napoleon Solo as Mr Freddy Eynsford-Hill
AND FEATURING
Gerald Strothers as Mr Zoltan Karpathy
TEXT by azdak and George Bernard Shaw
LYRICS by Bertolt Brecht, Lee Hazlewood, Alan Jay Lerner and azdak
When Alexander Waverly bets Harry Beldon he cannot turn a Section Eight scientist into a top class field agent within three months, Beldon soon finds out that he has bitten off more than even he can chew. Will Kuryakin ever be able to pass as a graduate of UNCLE's Survival School? And what will happen when he is assigned to security at the Hungarian Embassy ball?
With apologies to all concerned, but especially the Henries, Messrs Beldon and Higgins...
FROM THE JOURNAL OF HENRY BELDON
Have just reviewed Jules Cutter's latest batch of recruits. Like watching an army of robots, all hulking great lantern-jawed muscle men without 2 brain cells to rub together. V. good at dodging bullets, I have no doubt, and prob. also at withstanding torture, duffing up goons, etc etc, but any idiot can be taught to do that. Am convinced Jules is imperiling future of UNCLE by this short-sighted obsession with physical prowess. Any fool can be trained to shoot straight and duck a bullet, but impossible to take man with no brain and turn him into an agent capable of independent thought, someone who remains his own man even when following orders. Must have word with Alexander about this.