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On Oct 5, 3:09 pm, Stratum101 <j.coll...@cross-comp.com> wrote:
> On Oct 5, 12:42 pm, Just Me <jpd...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Oct 5, 11:29 am, Stratum101 <j.coll...@cross-comp.com> wrote:
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> > > On Oct 5, 9:39 am, william <wlahe...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > [JPD's comments re:David Carradine]
> > > > The film was "Bound for Glory" that starred Carradine as Woody
> > > > Guthrie. I'm sure your affection might be affectation.
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> > > Zing.  But I've stopped needling him.  He puts
> > > considerable effort into what he creates.  The
> > > presentation is not bad at all.  (Have a look
> > > at his blogs.)  I decided it is evil of me to
> > > attack one man's occasional lapses
> > > of genius, and occasional lapses.
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> > Heh.  Well, I suppose the same should go for William, that I should
> > not get so pissed about such a petty thing as that, especially with
> > one of our own Hollywoodland homeboys.  So. you're NOT a Chandler fan?
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> Not since about 1970.
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> One novellist I've never read is A. S. Byatt who was on the
> Diane Rehm Show this morning.  She's hot because
> she's short-listed for a second Booker.  I've had _The
> Biographer's Tale_ sitting on the shelf for a couple
> of years.
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> She's on my short list as soon as I
> finish two biographies of that exciting man,
> Dwight David Eisenhower.  One is _Ike:
> An American Hero_ by Michael Korda
> which concentrates mainly on his role
> in the Second World War and gives only
> scanty coverage to his two terms as prez;
> the other is the single volume abridgement
> of Stephen Ambroses two-volume
> _Eisenhower: Soldier and President_,
> which whizzes through WWII and
> all that.
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> (I'm reading Korda first, and cross
> checking occasionally with
> Ambrose.)
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> Meanwhile, I'm off to San Francisco.

Whoosh!  Oh well, too bad. Might have been good to get into some talk
about tonight's PBS documentary on the L.A. Times Otis/Chandler
dynasty. Hell of a story. They had the soundtrack from Chinatown going
on behind some of it. About the only thing they didn't have was James
Ellroy's fever-brained theory about some scion of the Chandler family
being the back-story behind the Black Dahlia murder. Or am I getting
Ellroy mixed up with Donald Wolfe (The Black Dahlia Files) on that?
Seems to me they both saw some kind of connection in the Chandler
direction. Won't they all be surprised and ashamed when the truth
comes out that it was Betty Short's main rival, Glinda the Good Witch
of the North who done it? Some fingers had been pointed at the Mayor
of Munchkinland, but I never gave it a moment's credence--and I never
will. Though I got to recommend Ellroy's memoir, "My Dark Places" as
being second only to the confessions of Bukowski when it comes to a
super loose and juicy celebration of degradation in high L.A.
style . . .

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