Word: noirs
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...decades; in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Spillane's anticommunist bent and good-vs.-evil plots in such yarns as My Gun Is Quick, One Lonely Night and I, the Jury resonated with weary postwar Americans. He also built a multimedia juggernaut: the hard-drinking, gleefully sadistic Hammer inspired film noir (Kiss Me, Deadly), made-for-TV movies and three TV series. The author, who got his start in comic books, bore similarities to his cavalier hero ("I don't give a hoot about ... reviews. What I want to read are royalty checks," he liked to say) but revealed a softer...
...Jury was written and directed by Harry Essex, a specialist in science-fiction screenplays (It Came from Outer Space, The Creature from the Black Lagoon) who had no notion of alchemizing menace from pictures and performances. Shot in 3D by noir whiz John Alton, and featuring occasional thrusts into the camera (a rifle, a dying man's hand, the pointed bra worn under a satiny blouse by Peggie Castle as Charlotte), the movie stays perfunctorily faithful to the book, including the use of a few famous lines. "Act like a clam or I'll open ya up like...
...that has long carried it. This Companion is purely local, not nationally syndicated as Keillor's real show is, and it is basically a songfest. Keillor does not do his monologue about the latest doings in Lake Wobegon. Nor are there the dramatized comic snippets about private eye Guy Noir (played here by Kevin Kline) or the lonesome cowboys, Dusty and Lefty (Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly) that have been a long-standing feature of the show. These figures are present, but worked into a feckless and meandering story, which features "A Dangerous Lady" (Virginia Madsen) in a white...
...Summers said, before presenting Durang with the medal. During the interview, Durang discussed the inception of his play writing interest and the complaints his work has received over the years. He talked about his latest project, “Adrift in Macao,” a film noir parody, and his squabble with famed director Robert Altman, calling his film adaptation of Durang’s “Beyond Therapy,” “ghastly” and “really awful.” Durang also provided insight into his personal writing style and gave...
...president of HBS section E, one of ten 90-person subdivisions of the business school student body. As a student leader, he knows all about the interplay between social life and academic life. HBS students frequent pricey Harvard Square haunts like Daedalus, Grafton Street, and Noir. But in addition to the bar-hopping, the members of section E regularly host other events like dinner parties and wine tastings. The well-planned and often-lavish events demonstrate the importance of socializing at HBS, where the person next to you at the bar might be the next CEO of a Fortune...