Posted by guillermo maynez
on 2/7/2012, 10:55:32, in reply to "Re: 2012 Schedule"
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I finished "Red Harvest" last night. It was fun. Anyone else finished?
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: Exactly!! I sometimes picture the Continentals Op as
: this guy, and Dinah Brand as the duck-girl. Excellent
: job of editorial graphic proposal!
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: You mean this guy?
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: Yes, these were the cartoons of my youth. Of course
: they started as entertainments shown at the theater
: between movies. That's why some of the satire is
: meaningful only to adults. Back when films were mostly
: black and white, everyone wanted to get there early to
: see the "color cartoon."
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: I've already started with "Red Harvest",
: precisely by the same reason you propose,
: chronological order. I'm enjoying it so far, it's
: funny. At the beginning I thought: "This is full
: of cliches and commonplaces", but I quickly
: realized these guys invented them. They´re the
: original tough guys, the hard-boiled detectives. One
: image that keeps popping up in my mind is Daffy Duck
: ("El Pato Lucas" in Mexico), with his long
: overcoat, being kissed by a voluptuous, red-lipped
: female duck, a femme fatale. Did you ever watch those
: old cartoons?
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: We have two selections for July:
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: Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett, and
: Farewell, My Lovely (1940) by Raymond Chandler
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: I suggest we take them in the above sequence simply
: because that's the order in which they were written,
: and Hammett is said to have been a major influence on
: Chandler (even though the latter was six years older).
: Any objections?
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