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#1 2010-08-03 14:40:39
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The Man With The Golden Arm
Another would-be hipster classic. Ho hum, as Macabee might say. Any takers?
#2 2010-08-03 15:09:06
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Re: The Man With The Golden Arm
With graphics by the godlike Saul Bass (again)... You bet!
#3 2010-08-03 15:15:52
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Re: The Man With The Golden Arm
Saul Bass, yes. And Darren McGavin?
#4 2010-08-04 02:24:42
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Re: The Man With The Golden Arm
I've read the book and seen the film, I have a feeling the latter is better than the former (usually I'm of the opposite opinion).
I have a tasty Jimmy McGriff (rip) 45 of the theme tune to this film somewhere in my possession, gathering dust . . .
some sort of banal legitimacy
#5 2010-08-04 03:29:35
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Re: The Man With The Golden Arm
This showed Frank was a pretty good actor. Elvis has also been underrated (and by some idiots underrated as a singer) as an actor due to a series of schlock visual vehicles chosen by that shyster Parker
#6 2010-08-04 04:56:43
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Elvis was a natural. I thought so, anyway, after watching 'Love Me Tender' a couple of years ago. And Debra Paget!
#7 2010-08-04 05:41:45
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Re: The Man With The Golden Arm
“No Room For Squares”
”All political art is bad – all good art is political.”
"Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?"
#8 2010-08-04 05:50:54
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Was it Nelson Algren? It was the kind of thing we'd have bought from a charity box but not necessarily read during our teens. Norman Mailer, I seem to remember, fell into that category (I had to study him later on and wrote an exam paper on 'An American Dream': not a favourite of mine). It became hip to read 50s beat-type literature and to understand and be able to use the references: like 'hip' (often used in a slightly ironic fashion). We were mixing with arty types by then, some of whom fled the murky Midlands for London, Paris, Milan or New York.
#9 2010-08-04 07:58:57
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It is Algren and I own the book, I've not read it for well over a decade but I recall it being a bit, ahem . . . unimpressive shall we say. I read somewhere that Sartre rated Algren back in the day though, and as I say I haven't read it for many years.
I also own A Walk On The Wild Side by him, which I may be confusing it with, who knows? It will take a trip to the loft of my Mum's home for me to clarify further so don't hold your breath.
I always failed to enjoy reading Mailer too, he was along similar lines. Cool man . . . or not as the case may be.
Last edited by Yuca (2010-08-04 07:59:34)
some sort of banal legitimacy