It's been mentioned that Stacy Keach's reading of Hemingway's
original story is on the new "The Killers" DVD. It's also on
audiotape. S&S has issued three volumes of Keach reading
Hemingway shorts. Vol. 3 completes the author's "First 49."
The actor's delivery is extraordinary. Timing, accents,
shifts in character. It's been years since I'd read any
Hemingway. This is definitely the way to get reacquainted.
And you can do it on a treadmill.
Speaking of the newer "The Killers," how about Lee Marvin's
last scene? There was a hardboiled guy. I was at a party
years ago for an awful movie called "The Klansman" and wound
up at the bar next to Marvin. I noticed that the left arm of
his sport jacket had ripped loose at the shoulder. I
mentioned it to him. He glared at me with bloodshot eyes,
looked at the rip, nodded and yanked on the right arm and
ripped that one, too. "Better?" he asked. I wasn't about to
disagree.
Dick Lochte
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