You will probably remember that Lee Server was one of the 3
editors of "The Big Book of Noir".
Server already published interesting works about pulps and
old paperbacks some year ago, as well as some short essays on
Noir films, and more complete works on some cinema noir
prominent creators ( such as Samuel Fuller).
I red only a small part of his "Robert Mitchum", but it helps
to understand better what made Big Bob tick, and made him the
kind of HB guy he always appeared to be.
(I hope to have more details in a few weeks about Lee
Server's book, and I will publish something on Hard-Boiled
Mysteries about it and Robert Mitchum).
Now, about the previous thread presenting RM as a singer, I
suppose most of you here know that, before being a regular
actor, Mitchum wrote songs that were performed in clubs by
others. He sang himself, but the studios at the time forbade
him to have a parallel career as a singer. Later, when he
more or less escaped to the grip of the Hollywood studios he
was even thinking to pursue his career as a singer only and
to drop acting. Fortunately he did not!
E.Borgers Hard-Boiled Mysteries http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
--- George Pelecanos <
shoedog1@erols.com> wrote:
> For all you Mitchum fans, the definitive
biography,
> ROBERT MITCHUM: BABY, I
> DON'T CARE, by Lee Server, will be published
in
> March by St. Martin's Press.
> I read the book in manuscript form and it
rocks.
> Mitchum was every bit the
> reprobate genius we imagined him to be, and
more.
>
> Pelecanos
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