Terrill Lankford wrote:
> The great Hard Boiled novelist Stephen Hunter has
received a Pulitzer
prize
> for his film criticism, which runs in the Washington
Post. This is the
first
> time that award has been given to a film journalist
since 1975.
>
> Nice to see one of the Dirty White Boys make
good!
************** That is good to hear. I haven't read any of
his articles on film but I've certainly enjoyed the two
novels I've read by him. I know that Swagger is a great
hillbilly asskicker good guy, but maybe it's a sign of my
growing addiction to noir that my favorite character so far
has been THE dirty white boy. Hmm... sorry I can't remember
his name. Is it Lamar? I haven't forgotten his fight with the
big badass inmate in the shower, or the great Denny's robbery
and shoot out, or his homicidal lil honey. A fine piece of
fiction.
I don't like to go off-topic but those who share my love for
overdone movies like Apocalypse Now might enjoy Val Kilmer in
The Salton Sea. Very, very noirish. I loved it. Good setting.
Desperate characters. Lost characters. Evil characters.
There's even a badger in the movie. One that hasn't eaten for
five days.
miker
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