Today on Lunch Box trivia, I asked a question about Earle Stanley Gardner.  The lawyer and author was born on July 17th.  Turns out he named his most famous character after the publisher of Youth’s Companion,  a magazine from his childhood: Perry Mason and Company. I went through a phase in the 90’s when I watched re-runs of Perry Mason all the time.  I think I must have been on maternity leave because they were always shown in the middle of the day.  Well, it’s just great stuff.  The black and white coolness of the late 50’s is actually quite beautiful.  And Raymond Burr with his eyebrows-to-be-reckoned-with, is so unflappable. Amazingly even-tempered.  I loved Barbara Hale as Della Street ,the faithful secretary and, perhaps, more.    That 50’s aesthetic is so “in” right now, witness the show “Mad Men”.  It seems to me that of all the TV shows that are being made into movies, Perry Mason is a natural. Who would I cast in the title role? Maybe Aaron Eckhart  or Patrick Wilson (google him!).  And naturally, I would play Della.  I wonder if anyone has the guts to make it in black and white.