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...final days Thompson promised his wife that he would be "famous after I'm dead about 10 years." Now he is. His reputation as a hard-boiled novelist is within spitting distance of Hammett's and Chandler's. And finally, Hollywood has discovered the man who wanted desperately to be in the movies. Three Thompson novels have recently become films: James Foley's broody After Dark, My Sweet, Maggie Greenwald's incompetent The Kill-Off and Stephen Frears' The Grifters...
...strength of American pop culture has always been in its originality and genuineness: Jimmy Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, West Side Story and The Graduate, Raymond Chandler and Ray Charles, the Beach Boys and Howdy Doody, James Dean and Janis Joplin. It would be a terrible irony if what America does best -- celebrate its own imagination -- becomes debased and homogenized by consumers merely hungry for anything labeled MADE IN THE U.S.A...
Part Raymond Chandler (were he soft-boiled) and part Elmore Leonard (before he became famous), Robert Ferrigno has created in his first novel some completely original characters who fascinate without being fantastic. The plot revolves around Danny DiMedici's search for his ex-wife Lauren, a celebrity psychologist who has disappeared after a scientist is murdered in her elegant beach house. But The Horse Latitudes works because it is really the story of Danny's quest to get over his obsession with the amoral, alluring Lauren. Under the cover of deadpan comedy and sharp-edged eroticism, Ferrigno, a journalist from...
Guard Beth Wambach was the only Harvard playernamed All-Ivy, garnering second-team honors afterfinishing fourth in the league with 18.1 pointsper game. Wambach set a school record this yearwith 435 points, breaking Beth Chandler's recordset last year (418 points...
...Chandler said that the case--placed in the context of increasing gang shootings and calls for more police action--also warranted attention because the murder seemed to epitomize the burgeoning problem of violence in Boston...