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17:14:20 -0800 (PST) From: JIM DOHERTY <
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re:The
Long Goodbye
> Colin,
>
> Re your questions below:
>
> "Has anyone else updated classic hardboiled/noir?
I
> would certainly love to see The Continental
Op
> operating today and many of Jim Thompson's
characters
> would be much more at home in today's
world."
>
> Three years before TLG, Chandler's 1949 novel,
THE
> LITTLE SISTER, was made into a film called
MARLOWE,
> starring James Garner in the title role.
>
> It was set in 1969, and, though it was far
more
> faithful to the original than Altman's film, it
did
> update a lot of the details. Hence, the
big-screen
> comedienne of the nove became the star of a
top-rated
> sitcom, and the studio exec who hire Marlowe becomes
a
> network exec.
Her agent hired him, not the studio exec in the book. I just
finished reading this last night (so now I've read all of his
novels, including Poodle Springs)
Jordan
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