: Has anyone encountered what could be considered a
hard-boiled
: biography of Frank?
I've read a number of them, and none would count. Nick
Tosches' biography
of Dean Martin has been mentioned as a hardboiled bio,
though, and I agree
with that. It's interesting, and explained Dino to me better
than any
standard star bio. Adopting a hip, swinging attitude could
easily be
fatal (especially in a faddish neo-cocktail culture) but
Tosches goes a
different way and gets over that Dino just didn't care one
damn bit.
I meant to make a list of hardboiled non-fiction that's been
mentioned
here, but any titles are still sitting in my RARA-AVIS inbox,
which has
about 700 messages in it I mean to go over and pick through.
Perhaps
someday.
: I'm into our next reading _Whoreson_ now and am getting a
bit bored.
: How did we get on this theme anyway?
I can't remember the details, but there was a fair bit of
talk about them
a while back. Perhaps interest has waned. Get ready for _They
Shoot
Horses_, though--that's some primo stuff.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.vex.net/~buff/ : Caveat lector.
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