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Screenplay by DAVID ZELAG GOODMAN...
Style and hemline are more pertinent than they should be to Farewell, My Lovely because Director Dick Richards (Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins) seems mostly interested in matters of decoration. No use telling him or Screenwriter David Zelag Goodman that just under his plots, Chandler was writing about Los Angeles, about levels of corruption, about resistance to the hard sell and the strong arm. Those are difficult matters to deal with, and Richards and Goodman avoid them. Goodman wrests a standard mystery plot from the book that Chandler considered his best. Richards uses it as an excuse...
...movie's ambience is stilted and uneasy, as if to match the dialogue. Some smart Chandler lines have been retained, but Richards and Goodman have added some others ("It's Snow White." "With or without the dwarfs?"), presumably of their own invention. Up against the real thing, these emendations stand out, as Chandler once wrote, "like a tarantula on a slice of angel food...
...John Kennedy. Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King. Lee Harvey Ornald. Malcolm X. Diem, Nhu, George Lincoln Rockwell, Refect TrujilluHendrik Verwoerd, Medgar Evers, Patrice Lumumba, Viola Liuzzo, Rev. James Reed and Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman were among the best known...
Died. Jane Ace, 74, who teamed with her husband, Comedy Writer Goodman Ace, in the popular radio comedy show of the '30s and '40s, Easy Aces, in which he played irritated straight man to her befuddled mistress of misspeak; in Manhattan. Among her inspired malapropisms: "Time wounds all heels" and "Doctor, feel my purse...