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Ardai, an Edgar and Shamus Award--winning author, is editor and founder of the pulp-fiction publisher Hard Case Crime
...made his clients believe he was a bulldog ... Basically, in this town, if you're not in the limelight, you're nobody. Pellicano was in the limelight; in fact, I think he liked it a little too much." - Richard DiSabatino, Beverly Hills P.I., on his fellow shamus (The Guardian, March...
...began,” Schamus said. As soon as the script was finished and released into the Hollywood scene, the calls came flooding in from people who wanted to audition. “This was the easiest film we’ve ever had to cast,” Shamus said. “We” is the key phrase here. Together, the powerhouse production team of James Schamus and director Ang Lee has produced an enviable modern cinematic portfolio. The duo’s mainstream break came with 1995’s “Sense and Sensibility...
...star of stars at Sea World is Shamu, billed, without fear of contradiction, as the "world's most famous performing killer whale." (Actually there are three Shamus, one for each Sea World park.) The Shamu Celebration veers toward the icky, especially when the heavenly choir from a burger commercial sings reverently, "It's what Shamu means to you and to me." And when a trio of the behemoth's trainers present their what-I-love- about-Shamu testimonials, the onlooker half expects one of them to say, "My whale, I think I'll keep her." But it is a thrill...
...classic shamus prefers a snub-nosed .38, made in the U.S.A. He is invariably single (Philip Marlowe was a bachelor until Chandler's last, unfinished novel; Lew Archer lives alone, as does Spenser, although Spenser keeps company with Susan Silverman, a compassionate shrink). He is also short of cash and careless about his clothing. He is a two-fisted drinker (even though James Crumley's Milo Milodragovitch goes for peppermint schnapps) and sometimes drops his guard long enough to reveal a flash of erudition (Marlowe has atrocious taste in socks but can quote Browning). Touches of class cater...