A quote from Lee Server's ROBERT MITCHUM: BABY, I DON'T CARE.
There's no source.
| [Mitchum, in 1939] would often wander down the block to
Rose's
| Bookstore, a hangout for local writer. He'd sit in the
back
| room with the scenarists and pulp hacks drinking jug
wine,
| and he'd hope for some practical advice; but all he ever
heard
| were obscene cracks about venal publishers and moronic
producers.
| One of the writers he met was a rising star of private
eye
| fiction, Raymond Chandler, author of THE BIG SLEEP and
FAREWELL,
| MY LOVELY. "I wasn't sure what to make of him," Mitchum
would
| recall. "I thought he affected a British accent, and he
was
| always wearing white gloves ... a nice guy, but
distant,
| suspicious of everybody."
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
-- # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 20 Jun 2002 EDT