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• Haiku Contest – Anyone can PLay!

  
  Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff — Authority: 421
  Do you haiku?  Love film noir?  (If you don’t know what it is, Netflix “The Maltese Falcon,” one of the greatest movies of this genre.) Now write three lines in a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.  Can you work in references to “The Maltese Falcon,” Raymond Chandler, an author of other great stories in this genre, ...
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• Reading Roundup, November 2009

  
  Bill Ward — Authority: 112
  N ovember proved an eclectic and productive reading period for me — even if I didn’t get much else done. I started things off with Italian fabulist Italo Calvino’s excellently mesmerizing Invisible Cities , a series of imaginative prose-poem meditations on memory and semiotics wrapped up in a spiraling chapter ...
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• Nicolas Sarkozy ‘helped’ Roman Polanski get bail

  
  Quick Take - As It Happens — Authority: 127
  The Glitter Dome by Joseph Wambaugh The director’s sister-in-law Mathilde Seigner hinted that the leader has been instrumental to the recent development. “I wouldn’t go so far as to say that it is thanks to the President that Roman has been freed, but he has been super. The President has been very ...
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• Saturday Open Thread

  
  threedonia.com — Authority: 490
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• Happy Birthday, Bruce Lee

  
  Premium Hollywood - Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog — Authority: 508
  The San Francisco-born, Hong Kong-raised master of martial arts would have been sixty-nine years old today. Here’s a brutally effective scene from “Fist of Fury” a.k.a. “The Big Boss” — sorry about not very good dubbing in the set-up, but this is how almost every one of my generation in the States first ...
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• On crime & thrillers: Raymond Chandler’s influence on crime novels and film

  
  When Falls the Coliseum — Authority: 509
  I have a couple of unread books on my nightstand next to my bed and about a dozen more on a table in my basement office. Instead of reading these new novels and nonfiction books, I’m rereading Raymond Chandler’s classic crime thrillers. As I recently read a newspaper piece about Robert Altman’s somewhat ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mellifluous Phrase of the Day 11/17/09

  
  Celsius1414 — Authority: 124
  More like Mellifluous Passage of the Day, but check out a master writing an action scene. A character has been shot, and his lifeless body is blocking the door to an apartment. Inside, shamus Philip Marlowe springs into action…. I jumped across the room and rolled him enough to get the door open and crowd ...
  4 weeks ago

• This Book Cover Totally Looks Like This Other Book Cover

  
  Totally Looks Like... Famous People and Celeb Look-A-Likes — Authority: 473
  This Book Cover Totally Looks Like This Other Book Cover » Think you can do better? Make your own! Pictures by: dunno source Look-alike by: dunno source via Totally Looks Like Builder
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