> on 7/2/03 5:40 AM, JIM DOHERTY at
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> Sure, and I suppose next you'll be trying to
convince
> me that he was once married to Barbra Streisand
and
> that he once starred in a sitcom called E/R
with
> George Clooney before Michael Crichton even
conceived
> of the current identically-titled NBC medical
drama.
>
> And who's this Altman guy? You're telling me some
guy
> named Altman actually made a Marlowe film? Oh,
come
> on! Who wrote it? Leigh Brackett, the co-scripter
of
> THE BIG SLEEP, I suppose!
>
> All I have to say is, if Altman and this
mysthical
> Gould character ever actually did a film version
of
> Chandler's most ambitious novel, I must
have
> considered it beneath my notice.
>
> JIM DOHERTY
>
> __________________________________
Could one hazard a guess that Altman,
Brackett & Co. hit a raw nerve? Just possibly?
Me, I'll claim that the 1973 "Long Goodbye"
movie is a masterpiece: from the initial quote of the
Whiting/Mercer song "Hooray for Hollywood," through the
"Double Indemnity" reference of the guard imitating
Stanwyck's Phyllis Diedrichson and Gould's quoting Dick
Powell's "Murder, My Sweet" schtick of striking matches
everywhere ... up through the "Star Is Born" quote of
Sterling Hayden's ocean suicide and the final "Third Man"
quote of Gould's scorning bu Nina Van Pallandt.
It's a funny, sarcastic, chilling,
first-rate film.
Chris
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