Lord knows, Elmore can do what he wants. And I guess product
placement is
here to stay, even in literature, but if Bogey can be
resurrected for
television soft drink commercials, I'm sure it's only a
matter of time
before we can settle in with new, improved editions of the
old favorites....
It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, according to my
XR-7 Timex
Omnilight Sportswatch, mid-October, with the sun not shining
and a look of
hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was
wearing my Ralph
Lauren powder-blue suit, with dark blue Arrow Excelsior
shirt, tie and
display handkerchief from the James Ellroy Collection at J.C.
Penney's,
black Thom McMann brogues, black wool Nike socks with dark
blue slashes on
them. I was neat, clean, shaved (Nick's on Mulholland) and
sober, and I
didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed
private
detective ought to be. I was calling on four million
dollars....
Or how about this new, improved conclusion to another
classic?
"How c-could you?" she gasped.
I only had a moment before talking to a corpse, but I got it
in.
"I was as easy as connecting an iMac to the Internet," I
said.
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Kevin Smith
The Thrilling Detective Web Site
http://www.colba.net/~kvnsmith/thrillingdetective/
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