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  1. MikeKardec

    The 80s, myth and reality?

    I think of the '80s as a tipping point, I'm guessing that's why the decade gets a bad rap from some. A lot of what we may be discovering today to be counter-cultural fails had reached the end of their fun upside and were hovering in neutral before beginning the descent we see more clearly...
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    The Ernest Hemingway Thread

    I'd blame drink more than boxing ... if that was the source of head injuries. Back in those days many times a lighter glove was used and the number of head injuries was significantly fewer while the number of broken hands was higher. Thinking more about his decline I'd say it was also...
  3. MikeKardec

    Hammett

    Julia and it was Jason Robards. Is that the one you were thinking of?
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    FBI Novels of the Late 30s and '40s

    Thanks for that info! It's now filed away as family history. I happen to have a 1937 application for a position with the FBI. Some of the document is illegible but I could type it or sections of it out if you would find that useful. The most amusing line on it asks: "What is the lowest...
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    Hammett

    That's the one. It's a fun, not too serious movie. Hammett, while helping out his aging mentor with a case, is led to encounter many of the characters who will populate his later work. That work is a bit more based on the movies made from his work, in particular The Maltese Falcon, but that's...
  7. MikeKardec

    FBI Novels of the Late 30s and '40s

    I believe that my Uncle worked in a munitions factory in the Grand Island area during WWII. Occasionally Agents were known to carry Colt 1911 semi automatics in .38 Super and the fancy new "registered magnum" Smith and Wesson .357s ... definitely the Rolls Royce of revolvers in those days...
  8. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Good work! I always have to just get my butt in the chair every morning and slug it out. I'm terrible at bribing myself! Working on Dad's stuff is a complicated equation. Much of the time I make it mine, I'm doing creative work, it's no less if I don't get credit or take partial credit...
  9. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    The Audio Publishing project is coming together piecemeal. Individual stories will be cast and recorded over the next few months and old recordings done by the late great Richard Crenna will be added in. I think, with the addition of Crenna we'll have three to four different narrators...
  10. MikeKardec

    Hammett

    I love the idea of Robinson or Borgine as the OP. As a minor character I liked Peter Boyle playing the part in Hammett. Though The OP is seen as a denizen of the era in which Hammett published, he may be more accurate to the times when Hammett was an operative himself. If you are going to...
  11. MikeKardec

    FBI Novels of the Late 30s and '40s

    If you are writing something beware of various "FBI myths" common in our culture like Agents only carrying guns and making arrests after 1934. If I remember correctly FBI agents carried firearms, under the same laws that many private citizens did and made citizen's arrests in the course of...
  13. MikeKardec

    Power Wagon Porn ...

    If you avoid the various fad vehicles, convertible and fastback Mustangs, GTOs and Grand Wagoneers, there are still some good buys out there. The trick is separating what you might want from the stuff that's pricey. I suspect that out in the sticks notch-back Mustangs, Torinos, Novas, and...
  14. MikeKardec

    Dan Brown

    Brown didn't really come from nowhere, he wrote three unexceptional and only modestly successful novels before DaVinci. I suspect that some of his impetus to write TdVC and the research behind it were several non-fiction books on Freemasonry that came out just before. One of them was The Hiram...
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    Movie locations

    Cecil B. DeMille learned from that experience when he shot "The Ten Commandments" in 1922 -- he built his sets out in the desert, and when he was done, he buried everything in the sand and left it. Archaeologists have recently uncovered several impressive plaster sphinxes and other artifacts at...
  16. MikeKardec

    Hollywood partying, 50s-70s

    I might have said this somewhere before but Hughes had girls stashed all over just in case he wanted to visit them ... and from all I can tell he rarely did. I doubt that there was an absolute understanding that they were there in case he 1) wanted to have sex, and 2) had the gumption to get...
  17. MikeKardec

    Did men use talc for shaving?

    These days it's probably best avoided because of a possible, yet to be thoroughly researched or proven, collaboration with cancer.
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    Most overrated movies?

    I'm middling on the entirety of Schindler's list. Schindler's ultimate 'I could have saved one more' semi breakdown in the end undercut so much of the film. When his factory workers give him the letter containing their signatures (the final list) to help him surrender successfully, well ...
  20. MikeKardec

    Most overrated movies?

    Many of the Bogart starring Warner's films were oddly old fashioned and play-like. I'm sure they did this to save money, Warner's has always been one of the most conservative studios financially. Obviously, Casablanca actually was a play, but consider also Key Largo, To Have and Have Not...
  21. MikeKardec

    Most overrated movies?

    If I remember correctly even when they were making it no one really had all the ins and outs of the plot worked out. I'm not sure the book was much better but at least you could go back and forth over it to figure out what it actually said. Fiction writers are given a HUGE favor by the...
  22. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Moving ahead, I'm concocting a new Audio Publishing project with a mixture of non-fiction and fiction elements using historical recordings and some yet to be laid down material. Probably we'll be using five different voices. It's not an Audio Drama like many I've done in the past but it is a...
  23. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    It does change, right under our noses. The persistent pattern in TV is that new "channels", networks, broadcasters, whatever you want to call them, do excellent work when they first appear because they are understaffed. In the early years of their existence they just hire the best lead writers...

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