Re: RARA-AVIS: Elmore Leonard and hardboiled comedy

From: Michael Robison ( miker_zspider@yahoo.com)
Date: 07 Mar 2005


Bruce wrote:

I have read Elmore Leonard's "Be Cool" and just saw the movie this afternoon. I find him very enjoyable, and technically excellent, but pretty lightweight. Has anyone coined the phrase "hardboiled comedy," which I think would apply to Leonard?

************ I credit Hammett with the first hardboiled comedy, THE THIN MAN. It wasn't very funny, though. More pathetic, but I believe exactly in line with what Hammett was shooting for. As Marc mentioned, Prather did hardboiled comedy. It's pathetic, but not in a good sorta way. The Macdonald Fletch novels might come under the hardboiled comedy heading also. I started one but haven't been able to finish it.

miker

        
                
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