Re: RARA-AVIS: Disappearance of the Private-eye and detetive film

From: Joy Matkowski (jmatkowski1@comcast.net)
Date: 18 Mar 2009

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    Thanks, Todd. I knew all about the campaign but not that she was a Broadway star and She Who Must Be Obeyed!

    Joy, who started Thomas Perry's Pursuit and realized she'd read it before

    Todd Mason wrote:

    > --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Joy Matkowski <jmatkowski1@...> wrote:
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    >> I don't know why they do it, Steve. If memory serves me right, they're
    >> all Republicans ("conservative" for those not knowing our labels).
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    > More often reactionaries or neocnservatives of late, but one example of a New Deal Democrat who had a decent run was Helen Gahagan (Douglas), who served in the US House from California for three terms, but failed to beat some guy named Nixon in a less than noble Senate race.
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    > Meanwhile, I shall have to review the messages in this thread in search of recgnition of how the most detective-oriented films of late have featured kid detectives or criminals forced to become detectives (the latter including CRANK and SHOOT 'EM UP)...
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