Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...golden age of Hollywood, or so the story goes, the studios used to come up with the title first, and then write the script later--the idea being that it's the title that catches the pros-time they get to the plotline they've already laid their money down...
...story that this trio have concocted for us seems like a typical Hollywood melange of free association, plagiarism, and stupidity. Sidney Poitier plays Warren Stantin, an FBI agent (you can tell because of the huge letters "FBI" on his windbreaker) who is tracking a fiendish kidnapper from the streets of San Francisco to the Great White North of Canada...
...bent the old-fashioned narrative line into a double helix, with sneaky dream sequences and complex flashbacks. You'd come out of an Ingmar Bergman film debating which part was fantasy and which reality, and what did it all really mean? Sexually, European dramas were less fettered than the Hollywood stuff; an art-film lover could get both stimulated and aroused. They were wonderful pictures too, some of them. Movies have never been so daring as when Bergman & Co. were pushing the existential pedal to the cinematic metal. For a while, in the Viet Nam years, Hollywood directors made European...
...rank of sergeant got a book contract, and those books got names like Cannibal Cousins, Voodoo Fire in Haiti, Puritan In Voodoo Land. And they were full of zombies crawling out of the grave attacking people, and voodoo dolls and pins that don't even exist. This led to Hollywood movies like I Walked with A Zombie and Zombies on Broadway. I think what [Serpent] attempts to do is give a positive portrayal of a culture at the thrust of change. The whole point of The Serpent and the Rainbow is to take a phenomenon which has been used...
...first-person amateur detective who is none other than the Prince of Wales, Queen Victoria's son and heir. Lovesey proved himself the world's foremost concocter of latter-day Victoriana in his series of mysteries built around Sergeant Cribb, then echoed the early 20th century in the nostalgic Hollywood story Keystone and the brilliantly plotted thriller The False Inspector Dew. Here he returns to 19th century London and, as always, to a subtle but relentless dissection of Britain's unjust social-class system. The rueful, candid voice he gives to the fleshy prince rings true, the details...