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...Mann's name isn't on He Walked by Night, a film that had a lot to do with restoring his reputation. Alfred Werker directed most of this exemplary procedural, in which L.A. cops track a clever thief (Richard Basehart) who robs electronics stores to get the parts for state-of-the-art radios, and who eventually kills a cop and is tracked into the city sewers. But "Mann's contribution was considerable," the Basinger book tells us. "It seems that he did the location filming with Richard Basehart, the final sequence of his flight through the sewers, the night...
...Israel during the past 58 years, they would have made enormous social and economic progress. Palestinians deserve leaders who are committed to creating peace and jobs and raising their standard of living, not destroying it. Joseph Abdel Wahed Moraga, California, U.S. Liberty vs. Security Everyone should read managing editor Richard Stengel's "To Our Readers" column about the crossfire between the U.S. government and the press over the stories on the classified program to monitor bank records [July 10]. It was refreshing, in this era of knee-jerk vilification of the other guy's point of view, for Stengel...
...outside the U.S. in the three months to July, double the share a year earlier. In its sights? The legions of gamblers in China, Japan and the rest of Asia. The firm won't reveal its hand, but Asia "could well be a significant growth area" for PartyGaming, says Richard Hunter, head of U.K. equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers. Plus it would be "a strategic hedge" against a U.S. crackdown. What's Mandarin for dead man's hand...
Everyone should read managing editor Richard Stengel's "To Our Readers" column about the crossfire between the government and the press over the stories on the highly classified program to monitor bank records [July 10]. It was refreshing, in this era of knee-jerk vilification of the other guy's point of view, for Stengel to urge us to listen carefully to the debate, since power politics may play a role on both sides. As he reminded us, we are the judges...
...Hammer hero with amnesia, is a drab affair, and My Gun Is Quick buried its chance at B-minus competence with another unknown, inapt Hammer, Robert Bray. You might say that Spillane should always have played him, as he does in the 1963 The Girl Hunters. (Richard Wright, of Native Son fame, is the only other best-selling novelist I know who played his own major character in a movie. Anyone know others?) But that would be to overrate Spillane's hulking amateurism. He has fun in the movie, but maneuvers only on the surface of Hammer's tortured meanness...