As long as we're delineating the intricate ties of Kenny
Rogers to the mystery and crime field, didn't the man have an
occasional TV series in which he played a murder solving con
man? It'd take a better memory than mine to come up with the
name.
On another subject, today's New York Times has a review of
"Road To Perdition" in which the critic refers to a young boy
reading a Lone Ranger "graphic novel." Here's my question. If
a comic book from the Twenties or Thirties (whenever the
movie takes place) is now called a graphic novel in America's
newspaper of reference, don't we owe it to the hardboiled
writers of yore to come up with a pretentious name that will
elevate the status of the so-called "pulp novel"? Maybe
"visceral fiction" or "roman bon marche." I'd veto the use of
"noir" simply because it's too closely tied to pulp
movies.
Dick Lochte
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