Re: RARA-AVIS: Thompson Spree

From: Bob Toomey ( btoomey@javanet.com)
Date: 19 Mar 2001


Let me cast another vote for Pop. 1280 as Thompson's mastepiece. As for the notion that a remake can't be better than the original, Huston's version of The Maltese Falcon was the THIRD filming of the book.

BobT

Mark Sullivan wrote:

> Paul replied to me:
>
> "I read pop.1280 as part of my Thompson spree and liked the humor and
> theology salted in there but still it's just a remake of his classic
> masterpiece Killer Inside and the shadow can't be greater than that
> which casts, or it wasn't in this case."
>
> Well, we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. As much as I liked
> Killer Inside Me, I thought Pop. 1280 was even better.
>
> Mark
>
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