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He's almost ridiculously prolific--the author of more than sixty books--including the best-selling Condominium, and eighteen other novels that precede this one in his Travis McGee mystery series. His eighteenth Travis McGee, The Green Ripper, won the American Book Award for Best Mystery of 1979. Yet, people...
On his 19th case, "Salvage Consultant" Travis McGee is back in form. The Florida-based knight-errant exhibited signs of age in his last few outings. His likable brawn and cunning intelligence were eroded by diatribes about the deteriorating environment and the credit-card society. Fans began to worry about...
Their concern was premature. True, the big pale-eyed detective sometimes sounds more like Hamlet than Hammett: "You spend too much time in the wings, watching your performance," a friend comments. But once McGee starts investigating a pair of murders, he forgets his complaints long enough to provide high and...
So it was probably inevitable that Martin Scorsese, one of a crowd of fine young American directors and maybe the best of them, would end up making a movie about boxing. All of the American rituals of machismo apply a fortiori to Italian-Americans; the pathetic pulp idiocy of Rocky...
Still, after all is said about the brilliance of the performances and the direction and Michael Chapman's cinematography, one can only be left with the gravest reservations about Scorsese's purpose. Raging Bull is not a movie about people, it is a movie about beasts. This conception of man...