Very funny indeed...and ŒThe Tarp¹ should be the name of your next short
story...Excellent...Hopefully some humorous Rara-Avians will have other
nasty gems like this to liven up our job searching days...
The Friends of Eddie Coyle is one of those films that come back about once
every two or three months on TV somewhere...and it usually at some odd and
ungodly hour...just like some other old mini gems (or an other genre) like
Junior Bonner or The Border....There must be some cinéphiles in the
programming somewhere...
Montois
On 5/28/09 11:37 PM, "James Michael Rogers" <jeddak5@cox.net> wrote:
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> Great though the movie was, I can't easily imagine anyone saying that it was
> better than the novel. The scene in the book where Eddie dispenses fatherly
> advice while preparing to break the kid's fingers in the desk drawer is, in my
> opinion, one of the great hard-boiled scenes in fiction.
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> May I share a true conversation I had with an alleged killer? He was a very
> nice guy, by the way. He was in prison and the cops pulled him out of his
> cell.
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> Cop: (tossing horrible photos of freshly dug up but ancient corpse on the
> table) Well, Johnny, I guess we finally found out what happened to Gary.
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> Johnny: Did we?
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> Cop: Yeah.
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> Johnny: Well, what do you got for me?
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> Cop: Nothing but the chance to help.
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> Johnny: You can take me back to my cell.
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> Guy listening to Johnny tell the story: Did he ( the photo) look like the same
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> Johnny: Well, it had been a while. But the tarp looked the same.
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> No one else has ever seen the humor in this story. But even when I first heard
> it I thought, "This is a George Higgins moment".
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> James
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