> I thought the most interesting thing about the
Chandler panel was the
> statement by Bob Wade--'you can't outline Chandler'.
He told the story
> about the screen-play (Faulkner was one) writers who
were adapting
> something (Farewell My Lovely???) and they got to the
end and looked at
> each other and said "well, who shot the
chauffeaur....
This was _The Big Sleep_ (with Bogart and Bacall). The
anecdote
that I'd heard was that while they were filming they realised
they
didn't know who'd shot the chauffeur, and so they checked
with the
book. They couldn't figure it out from the book, either, so
they
cabled Chandler, who replied with a cable saying something
like
`How the heck should I know?'
cjs
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