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...Well, here is the real stuff. Not a neo-noir homage, but the genuine india-ink original, "Nightmare Alley" combines the creepy world of Tod Browning's movie, "Freaks" with the relentless cynicism of a Jim Thompson novel. As adapted by Spain, "Nightmare" pulls you into a secret world, with its own colorful language. "You can go back to carny and find another kootch show. But I want to have big dough," is a typical line, delivered when Molly hesitates on trying out the spiritualist "dodge." Throughout the book you get a privileged inside look at the tricks...
...1950s TV viewers as the grandson of a meddling hillbilly in The Real McCoys and later to moviegoers as Rambo's Vietnam War commander in First Blood (1982) and its two sequels. Crenna's movie credits also include the suspense thriller Wait Until Dark (1967) and sizzling film noir Body Heat...
...best among their discoveries included the Chardonnay Barrique of Morocco ("the finest white wine in North Africa"), Algeria's Domaine Ouzeva 96 (cabernet sauvigon) from Medea ("an area too dangerous to visit"), the Moelleux (chenin blanc) from Réunion, and Richard Leakey's Kenyan Ol Choro Onyore Pinot Noir 2001. Having had a go at uncorking Africa, they have now set their sights on South America. "We hear we might find some of the highest vineyards in the world in Ecuador," says John. "If we get there, we'll drink to that." And devotees of their guide will look...
...heroes figured they could get away with murder, cross-dressing or "the girl"; they were reflections of their brilliantly duplicitous writer-director. And though his voice was caustically distinct, Wilder triumphed in a wide variety of genres. He made the sauciest farce (Some Like It Hot), the darkest film noir (Double Indemnity), the dearest romantic comedy (Sabrina) in Hollywood history--as well as the tartest evocation of Hollywood history (Sunset Blvd.). His films were utterly contemporary (One Two Three, his 1961 cold war satire, was shot in Berlin just before the Wall went up), yet have stayed as fresh...
...image of private investigators in Hollywood has segued over the years from Philip Marlowe to Charlie's Angels. Real-life gumshoe ANTHONY PELLICANO, however, is a throwback to the noir era; he has handled cases for Michael Jackson, Sylvester Stallone and Farrah Fawcett, below, and once described his job as making people "remember why they're afraid of the dark...