no, I wasn't thinking Christopher Lloyd, although, I think I did suggest him in the old Fforum post. I've been contemplating someone else who SORT OF looks like the "Blinded Me With Science" guy but he had frizzy dark gray hair that pointed out on the sides but was a bit bald on top, kind of like someone from Dilbert. It's really been driving me nuts!

oh and a good Bowden would be the guy who played Tom, the pouf, in Bridget Jones's Diary

Sounds like Michael Gambon and the way he looked in _Charlotte Gray_.

PSD - it was Richard Briers

I hope they don't ever do a film of the books - cos in my imagination, I'm Thursday Next and Vincent Cassel is Landon (although he doesn't have a French accent of course!) and if I see otherwise, I'll never be able to have those dreams again!

Yes, I'm sad - I married the Dodo because he looked like a young Stewart Granger (and didn't have a mortgage!)

I find it difficult to imagine Stewart Granger as anything but young. Obviously haven't watched many of his later movies (can't remember the title of any off-hand). Can't say I blame you for marrying a dodo if he looked like Stewart Granger.