A really good detective never gets married. -- Raymond Chandler It wasn't me.Last week my wife bought some Easter candy to share with our young nephews, and well ...Somehow, some way...
...1973): An insane amalgamation of L.A. culture in the early 1970s and the hard-bitten detective fiction of Raymond Chandler, Goodbye stars Elliot Gould as a perpetually bemused Philip Marlowe trying to survive as a 1950s throwback in a...
...possibilities if inserted into a genre film - a Los Angeles film noir. "It was sort of imaging him in the context of a (Raymond) Chandler kind of story that got us started on the script," Joel Coen says on the new collector's edition DVD of "The...
...Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury, The Reivers) avoided the problem of an endlessly confusing array of events in Raymond Chandler's book by disregarding cognitive plot structure and concentrating on character and dialogue. The result is a film...
...dollars to bail out his struggling car company. The tough-talking Pellicano cultivated an image akin to novelist Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled, swaggering detective Philip Marlowe. He claimed to carry a baseball bat, not a gun, as his...
...novels, featuring Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, firmly established his place beside Raymond Chandler as one of America's greatest crime novelists. In fact, it was hard to imagine a better crime novel than Lehane's...
...Columns by Anna Quindlen, Ellen Goodman, Leonard Pitts, Dave Barry and Bill Kirby. Books by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Sax Rohmer and Eric Ambler. The talented people I work with, who amaze and delight me every day. Music, especially...
...Williams (145), Eric Middleton (145), Rontreal Tyler (170), John Robertson (190), Justin Williams (205), Raymond Chandler (205) and Fred Staley (200). Reach Josh Katzowitz at (706) 823-3216 or josh.katzowitz@augustachronicle...
...hard-boiled mystery and even romance. Writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs -- author of Tarzan -- H.P. Lovecraft, Raymond Chandler and Ray Bradbury got their start producing quality short stories for the pulp magazines. From Hollywood, All Quiet...
...mellow, often confused and prone to fire up a joint when things get rough, Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski is what a Raymond Chandler hero might have become had he been more inclined to pick up the reefer than a revolver. The Big Lebowski is a smart...
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