My visit with Dashiell Hammett, tough guys' corner, and short-pantsed tourists awed into respectful silence
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posted by Peter Rozovsky at 11:05 PM
Monday, June 26, 2017
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This blog is a proud winner of the 2009 Spinetingler Award for special services to the industry and its blogkeeper a proud former guest on Wisconsin Public Radio's Here on Earth. In civilian life I'm a copy editor in Philadelphia. When not reading crime fiction, I like to read history. When doing neither, I like to travel. When doing none of the above, I like listening to music or playing it, the latter rarely and badly. Click here to find an independent bookstore near you.
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9 Comments:
Thanks for the post and the pictures. Did not know Lee Marvin was in Arlington.
Peter, I am moved to comment by your mention of Lee Marvin, whose death I still mourn when reflecting on movie tough guys.
One of my really guilty pleasures is watching "Prime Cut," which I'm sure you've seen. I just love it. Of course, I even loved "Paint Your Wagon," just because Marvin was in it.
My friend Dana cracked wise about "Paint Your Wagon," of course.
My friend Dana and I naturally cracked wise about "Paint Your Wagon."
Nice to hear from you. Are you still writing and reading crime fiction? And do you remember Gwen Florio? She's in Montana and writing crime novels these days.
Hi Peter,
Reading it, yes. All the time. Writing, not so much.
I do remember Gwen. We have some mutual acquaintances back in Montana.
Congratulations on keeping the blog going these many years. It's still as fresh as ever. I'll try to be a more regular visitor.
Thanks. If you visit more regularly, I'll have to post regularly. The frequency started to drop off after more than ten years.
I remember when I first found out that you liked crime fiction. I walked across the room to ask you to proofread a page, and you were reading an Ian Rankin novel. With that in mind, you may already have seen this photo, first posted last year. You'll recognize the two people at left: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-w0LXc0jBtTI/V0M4D0wSfvI/AAAAAAAAQ1Q/vQBqp47sou4kpomUXa9XsBAzVsWQHEu-QCLcB/s1600/13254387_10154830374244008_8177902063396173987_n.jpg
I have not seen Prime Cut. I've seen little of Lee Marvin, in fact, just The Big Heat, Point Blank, and Dirty Dozen, as far as I can remember. But how can Prime Cut be a guilty pleasure if Gene Hackman is in it? I saw The French Connection on the big screen in New York Saturday. I'd say it holds up pretty damned well, and Hackman was terrific in it. Of course, I remember well what Donald Westlake, though Alan Grofield, says about movie acting. Still, Hackman was brilliant at what he had to do.
Hoisting a pint with the man himself! I salute you both. (as a dopey aside, my brother was able to have a beer at the Oxford in Edinburgh last summer. He's another Rankin fan.)
Yeah, Gene Hackman. Loved that guy, from Bonnie and Clyde onward. You should check out Prime Cut.
I've watching movies on screens as tiny as that on a iPhone, but I realize only on the rare chances I have to see old movies in a theater how much I miss that experience. In addition to not having a crime fiction bookstore, Philadelphia also has no repertory theater that screens classic movies. Luckily Philadelphia is close to New York, and if Prime Cut turns up anywhere, the Film Forum is a likely place. That's why I plan to join.
Dave, do you know an author named Karin Salvalaggio? I met her at the Crimefest convention in Bristol, U.K., year. She's been based in England, I think for many years, but she's from Montana, and he think she sets her novels there.
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