KCRW PRESS RELEASE
ROSS MACDONALD MARATHON FEATURES PRIVATE EYE LEW ARCHER IN
DARK, DRAMATIC PRODUCTION OF
"THE ZEBRA-STRIPED HEARSE"
Harris Yulin Reprises Role as Noir Detective; Cast Creates
"Movie of the Mind" in Unabridged Dramatization of Classic
SoCal Mystery Novel
Hailed in his lifetime not only as the best mystery writer in
America but as one of the country's most important writers in
any genre, ROSS MACDONALD was a superb delineator of post-war
life in Southern California. His classic private eye, Lew
Archer, entered the literary detective canon as an equal
alongside Chandler's Philip Marlowe and Dashiell Hammett's
Sam Spade.
On Monday, July 3 from 9 am to 4 pm, and 6 to 8 pm, KCRW
(89.9 FM; www.kcrw.com) broadcasts (and webcasts) a vintage
Macdonald mystery yarn, "THE ZEBRA-STRIPED HEARSE."
Actor/director HARRIS YULIN returns as Lew Archer, reprising
the role he played and directed for the award-winning KCRW
production of Macdonald's "The Sleeping Beauty."
This gripping, full-cast unabridged dramatization is set amid
a cat's cradle of artists, surfers, neurotic rich and
resentful poor. Strictly speaking, Archer is only supposed to
dig up the dirt on a rich man's suspicious soon-to-be
son-in-law. Like a roving conscience, Archer navigates the
dark frontier between criminal guilt and human sin, following
a trail of corpses down the California coast to Mazatlan
while a zebra-striped hearse and the future son-in-law keep
crossing his path.
The production, with an original and haunting score by
renowned television composer STEVE CROES, features Edward
Asner, Kathryn Harrold, Jennifer Tilly, Richard Dysart, Bruce
Davison, Tony Plana, Shirley Knight, Tyne Daly, Mary Kay
Place and others.
KCRW-FM, licensed to Santa Monica College, is National Public
Radio's flagship station. The station serves Los Angeles and
Orange Counties at 89.9 FM, and Ventura County at 89.1 FM on
KCRU/Oxnard-Ventura, and the greater Palm Springs area at
89.3 FM on KCRY/ Indio-Palm Springs. Translators carry the
signal to Banning at 90.9 FM, Twentynine Palms and Yucca
Valley at 90.7 FM, the Antelope Valley at 88.1 FM, the
Ridgecrest area at 107.1 FM, the Santa Paula, Moorpark, and
Fillmore areas at 102.3 FM, and Ojai at 102.1 FM. Every week,
more than 400,000 listeners tune to the station for its
eclectic and innovative non-commercial program schedule. KCRW
can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.kcrw.org.
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