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...master of cinematic suspense once cited the master of literary suspense, Edgar Allan Poe, as his guru: "I can't help comparing what I've tried to put in my films with what Edgar Allan Poe put in his tales: a completely believable story told to the readers with such a spellbinding logic that you get the impression that the same thing could happen to you tomorrow." In The Man Who Knew Too Much, the murder coincides with a cymbal clash during a night at the symphony; in Rear Window Jimmy Stewart suspects that a murder has taken place across...
...notes, among other things, that the film director is, for the most part, "an interfering parasite," and "much of your time [as a screenwriter] will be spent in a creative wasteland" -- the single most revealing piece in "Dig" is "King Weirdo," his ode to his first literary hero, Edgar Allen Poe. Southern's singular fascination for Poe's duplicitous frame device in "A. Gordon Pym" -- which insists that the story you're reading is an account of actual events submitted to Poe -- is reflected in several of his own short stories, including the marvellously titled "Heavy Put-Away...
...agent. "That's why so many agents kept their stuff locked up in their desk where it couldn't get screwed up." Name a sensitive, headline-making case and you can find a flap over lost-and-found documents. The humiliations range from the Congressional investigations into director J. Edgar Hoover's massive COINTELPRO domestic surveillance program to the overzealous terrorism investigation by the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) to the Chinese espionage cases of the late 1990s...
...country fans turned off by the superslick pop sound that Nashville has been peddling in recent years. The band members earned their right to be playful with the form by becoming some of the best players around. They learned their tricks from "newgrass" innovators such as Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer, then went off in search of even sweeter harmonies and trickier licks. Now success is arriving faster than the Orange Blossom Special. Nickel Creek's video, When You Come Back Down, is in heavy rotation on CMT, and its eponymous debut album cracked the Billboard country...
...three at the secret center of five years of convulsive events. Littell is a lawyer who represents both Howard Hughes and the Mob bosses who own the Las Vegas casinos Hughes wants to buy. A former Jesuit seminarian and FBI agent, Littell also gets regular phone calls from J. Edgar Hoover with instructions to infiltrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. For his part, Bondurant sets up a CIA plan to process poppies into heroin in Vietnam and use the profits to finance an insurrection against Fidel Castro in Cuba. Tedrow observes--"His standard procedure was watch...