RARA-AVIS: Impressed

From: Bludis Jack ( buildsnburns@yahoo.com)
Date: 07 Apr 2005


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> There are 16 messages in this issue.
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> Topics in this digest:
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> 1. Monte Hellman and Cockfigher (was Re:
> Welcome to ...)
> From: "thebradstevens"
> < bradstevens22@hotmail.com>
> 2. Re: Iguana Love
> From: "Kerry J. Schooley"
> < gsp.schoo@murderoutthere.com>
> 3. Re: Iguana Love
> From: "Jacques Debierue"
> < matrxtech@yahoo.com>
> 4. Re: Iguana Love
> From: "Kerry J. Schooley"
> < gsp.schoo@murderoutthere.com>
> 5. Re: Iguana Love
> From: BaxDeal@aol.com
> 6. Re: Iguana Love
> From: Steve Novak
> < Cinefrog@comcast.net>
> 7. Re: Iguana Love
> From: "Dave Zeltserman"
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> 8. RE: Re: Welcome to Vicki Hendicks,
> guest of honour
> From: "GERLACH, Steve"
> < steve.gerlach@sma.com.au>
> 9. Re: Iguana Love
> From: Terrill Lankford
> < lankford2000@earthlink.net>
> 10. Re: Iguana Love
> From: Terrill Lankford
> < lankford2000@earthlink.net>
> 11. Favorite noir novels
> From: "E.Borgers"
> < wbac12034@tiscali.be>
> 12. Re: Iguana Love
> From: BaxDeal@aol.com
> 13. Re: Iguana Love
> From: Karin Montin
> < kmontin@sympatico.ca>
> 14. Re: Favorite noir novels
> From: "Jeff Vorzimmer"
> < jvorzimmer@austin.rr.com>
> 15. Well, you've done it
> From: "James R Winter"
> < winter_writes@earthlink.net>
> 16. Re: Iguana Love
> From: Ivan Van Laningham
> < ivanlan@pauahtun.org>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 18:12:36 -0000
> From: "thebradstevens"
> < bradstevens22@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Monte Hellman and Cockfigher (was Re:
> Welcome to ...)
>
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> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, William
> Denton <buff@p...> wrote:
> > On 6 April 2005, thebradstevens wrote:
> >
> > : It was a book about the films of Monte
> Hellman (MONTE HELLMAN: HIS
> > : LIFE AND FILMS).
> >
> > What did you say about COCKFIGHTER, the
> adaptation of the Charles
> > Willeford novel? I very much like the movie
> (and the novel, of
> course)
> > and would be interested to hear.
> >
> > /
>
> There's an entire chapter of the book dedicated
> to the film.
> Willeford is credited with the screenplay, but
> Monte actually rewrote
> a lot of it himself (in collaboration with Earl
> Mac Rauch, who later
> wrote NEW YORK NEW YORK for Scorsese).
> Willeford also appears in the
> film as a cockfighting judge. He later wrote
> COCKFIGHTER JOURNAL, a
> limited edition (only 300 copies!) book about
> the making of the film
> which is, unfortunately, riddled with errors
> (his account of Laurie
> Bird's death is is totally wrong).
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:17:36 -0400
> From: "Kerry J. Schooley"
> < gsp.schoo@murderoutthere.com>
> Subject: Re: Iguana Love
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> At 01:35 PM 06/04/2005 -0400, you wrote:
> >Kerry--
> >Do you look particularly innocent or easily
> frightened? Or maybe the person
> >in front of you had just expressed alarm
>
> Innocent. I'm sure it's my sterling innocence
> that shines me through all
> encounters.
>
> Kerry
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 18:19:21 -0000
> From: "Jacques Debierue"
> < matrxtech@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Iguana Love
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> Just a quick list of things you might enjoy:
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> Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian, Son of God,
> All The Pretty Horses, The Crossing
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> William Campbell Gault: Death Out of Focus
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> Jason Starr: Everything
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> Donald Westlake: The Ax, The Hook
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> Ken Harrington: Dark Ride, Díˇ de los Muertos
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> Charles Willeford: The Burnt Orange Heresy
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> Gil Brewer: 13 French Street, Nude on Thin Ice
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> David Goodis: Cassidy's Girl, Dark Passage
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> James Ellroy: The Big Nowhere
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> Theodore Sturgeon: The Dreaming Jewels (don't
> miss his short stories, reissued in a
> handsome collection; a treasure)
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> Best,
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> MrT
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