Re: RE : RARA-AVIS: Bloch/Woolrich and US tv then and now

From: foxbrick ( foxbrick@yahoo.com)
Date: 12 Feb 2008


--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Fabienne soldini
<fabsoldini@...> wrote:
>For Bloch I've read, a long time ago, Psycho and "Chicago Butcher"
(le boucher de Chicago). I've liked the both.

The original title for the latter is AMERICAN GOTHIC, Bloch's take on H. H. Holmes/Herman Mudgett (both names adopted by William "Anthony Boucher" White as further pseudonyms, Holmes to, among other things, review crime fiction for the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE while Boucher was reviewing it in the NEW YOURK TIMES), who has more recently been the subject of Erik Larson's THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY.

Todd Mason (who agrees with Mario and Richard...tv writing is averaging Much better these days, though the best US season so far has been 2000-2001. And back in the latter '50s, there was another source or two of tv crime drama aside from the three big networks in the US, albeit the commercial syndication market dominated by Ziv TV tended toward the light and rudimentary...HIGHWAY PATROL, SEA HUNT, etc.)

> A Finnish autor I really love is Arto Paasilinna. It's very
funny with a subtile philosophy of life. He's not exactly an author of crime stories, but he wrote noir novel. A very funny book which is noir, what is translated in French, "une douce empoisonneuse". Spoiler: it's about an old women who lives quietly in a little house in the forest. One day, her nephew and friends of him came to visit her to get money. The nephew and his friends are not very clever and really lazy. She became afraid and decided to leave her house and to go to Helsinky. the nephew wants to murder her to get the money, but she's poor. She decided to suicide herself by poison but with a lot of quiproquo, she doesn't die but murders by accident her nephew and his friends. it's very funny. And today I buy another book of Paasilinna: "hurmaava joukkoitsemurha" translated in French as "Little suicides with friends"
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> Friendly
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> Fabienne
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> Juri Nummelin <juri.nummelin@...> a 飲it :
> Fabienne,
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> sorry, I misunderstood the title you were talking about. (About de
Rais:
> there's a Finnish book on him and that writer refutes the theories
of him
> being a serial killer.)
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> As for Bloch, it's been years I read THE DEAD BEAT, but remember
enjoying
> it. I just liked PSYCHO and THE SCARF better.
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> Juri
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