ejm duggan (ejmd@cwcom.net)
Mon, 27 Dec 1999 15:03:57 +0000
There's been some neat stuff on UK TV recently ... in a
series called
'Fallen Angels' on BBC2 there were a couple of shorts,
back-to-back: first was a Spillane story called 'Tomorrow we
die', which was much better than I expected given the
Spillanne tag. Second was a Goodis story, the title of which
I forget, but which had a interesting structure. The story
tells of an ace lift operator who first has to give up his
boyfriend, then kill the boyfriend and finally 'the daddy'
positions the lift operator as the boyfriends repalcement.
[This probably isn't as clear as it might be, but hopefully
someone will recognise it and be able to furnish a
title/source for the Goodis story].
Jayne Mansfield turned up in an English crime film, _The
Challenge_ which, although largely hokum, did have a
harrowing scene as one of the American villains plans to off
the child-hostage with a game of chicken. JM wasn't really
convincing as the brains behind the car-crime gang. A JM
bio-doc broadcast the followingf day revealed a couple of
interesting things about her (apart from the obvious!) ...
how many people knew JM was an acomplished violinist?
*****
OTHER STUFF COMING UP ON UK TV ...
There's another pair of shorts in the Fallen Angels strand
coming up before the end of the hols which I will watch out
for.
A short Kurowsawa season means Yojimbo will be screened
Tuesday night / Wednesday morning.
ED
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