Paul wrote:
>Supposedly, this is the first of a proposed series of
"homages" to film noir
>FOX plans for the coming season. I am naturally
suspicious of such projects,
>but it might turn out to be worthwhile. Stranger
things have happened.
Yeah. FALLEN ANGELS a few years back was a pleasant surprise.
Fox's plan is to remake old 20th Century-Fox B's from the
40's and 50's, evidently. Let 'em, I figure. At least the
stuff is getting out there. It may bring in a few new
readers, which wouldn't be a bad thing.
And if the remakes are bad, well, so be it. Some of those
movies could do with redoing, anyway. Look at THE MALTESE
FALCON. It took
'em three times to get that one right, and they're still
working on THE BIG SLEEP.
I'll be interested on what you thought of it.
And thanks for the gambling advice, Pete. DON'T BET PERSONAL
just sounds like a 1950's Gold Medal about a gambler with
nothing but bad luck who gets suckered into some racetrack
scam by some dame with long legs and longer lies. I'd read
it.
And now that the Bobbsey Twins have had the chance to throw a
few rough words around the schoolyard at recess, to prove
what red, white and blue-blooded he-men they are, could we
get back to crime fiction, and the interesting notion that
writers"profile" their secondary characters as a literary
short-cut? (And kudos to Bill Hagen for coming up with just
the right word).
Is it necessarily a bad thing? When is it offensive, when is
it just lazy writing and when is it a clever way to pump up a
secondary character without using a lot of verbiage? And by
profiling I don't just mean by race or gender or sexual
preference or even hair colur. For example, I think Pelecanos
and Michael Cormany often "profile" their characters simply
by referring to the music they listen to, or what they drink.
What are some literary shortcuts that other writers
use?
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