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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gone, No Forwarding by Joe Gores (Random House; $6.95). Gores, 46, who was a card-carrying private eye in California before switching to literary license, dissects a Mob-connected conspiracy to sue, harass and murder the Bay Area-based Dan Kearny Associates detective agency out of business. DKA, as in two previous novels, survives-after an adrenaline-pumping, nationwide search for a missing witness, conducted in large part by the niftiest black op in the literature...
SCOTT AND ERNEST by Matthew J. Bruccoli; Random House; 168 pages...
...POISON THAT FELL FROM THE SKY by John G. Fuller Random House; 113 pages...
...great comedian generally has a desire continually to improve his material. A random example to the contrary is Henny Youngman, who has used the same jokes since he appeared in vaudeville. Brooks never gives up; in his films he is apparently searching for a better balance between sight gags, one-liners, and developed routines. He has come close before--The Producers, his first film, is one of the funniest movies ever made, and Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein were outrageous parodies of two moribund film genres. But his last film, Silent Movie, was a bomb, although it reflected a willingness...
...Random House; 254 pages...