On Sun Sep-30-2018 19:31, Mike Powell (1:2320/105) wrote to ROGER NELSON:


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 MP> I actually mis-read it the first time and was guessing which one
 MP> you WOULD watch.  LOL, I see my error now.  If I had to choose one
 MP> of them, it would also be that one.

Good for you!  I just can't wrap my mind around a female playing a superhero
in that role because it doesn't fit in with the comic book creation.  Now we
have Supergirl on TV and it looks to be quite popular.  She is supposed to be
Superman's cousin, but I only watched the pilot episode.

>  MP> I am not sure they had trouble with the ending (other than it did
>  MP> not at all match what was in the book) but, at one point, they
>  MP> asked him who was responsible for one of the deaths in the book.
>  MP> He realized that he did not know!  It turned out not to be
>  MP> significant to the overall storyline and apparently remained
>  MP> unsolved when the book was completed.  :)

I believe I got my detectives and authors mixed up.  Dashiel Hammett created
Sam Spade and Raymonf Chandler created Philip Marlowe.  It is the latter that
they had trouble with on the ending and even called in the late writer Leigh
Brackett to help.  I think I have that right.  (-:

 MP> The Maltese Falcon was a Sam Spade movie, and a Dashiel Hammett
 MP> (sp?) book.  The Big Sleep was a Philip Marlowe movie, and a
 MP> Raymond Chandler book.  I think they are easy to confuse because
 MP> Bogart played both Sam and Phil. After seeing Bogart play Marlowe,
 MP> Chandler supposedly thought he was the best one to have played him
 MP> (even though he was not crazy about some of the story line
 MP> changes).

I'm now remembering that the Marlowe stories were mainly in Florida (Miami
area, I think).

 MP> Two of my favorite movies and books.  :)

Mine, too.

As an aside, we have another Captain to go and that's Captain Midnight, even
though he wasn't a superhero.  (-8

Did you know that Bogart was 44 when he met the 19 year old Bacall?  I never
thought that would work unless it was the other way around, but this was the
exception.


Regards,

Roger 
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