RARA-AVIS: re The Bogie Man
daniel Sevitt (sevitt@infolink.net.il)
Wed, 10 Jun 1998 15:21:50 -0400
Now this takes me back. A super story about a lunatic who is
obsessed with
Humphrey Bogart and sees mystery in everyday events. Written by
Alan Grant
who has done excellent work with Batman. Another
cross-reference is that in
the acknowledgement at the start of Footsteps of the Hawk,
Vachss writes "To
Alan Grant a volunteer in a war not his own to free all the
Children of the
Secret" A further reference to Vachss' own Batman book which
was itself
dedicated to the Children of the Secret. I gawped at Grant at a
Comic
Convention in London a few years back and he even signed my
copy of The
Bogie Man. The BBC made a one off TV movie of The Bogie Man
that Grant was
involved with. Robbie Coltrane played slightly deranged hero
maintaining a
hilarious Bogie impression throughout. Coltrane of course
played Fitz in the
original Granada series of Cracker which must rate as one of
the most
hard-boiled series ever to come out of England. That's enough
for now, but I
must get my mum to dig up the BBC preview copy of the movie
that they sent
me for some now-forgotten reason.
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