The damaging of the Russian bridge to Crimea brings to mind “Bridge on the River Kwai”–although it’s closer to the movie than to the novel.
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The Bridge on the Black Sea
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Doubling Down on Trump’s Lies
Defending Trump’s lies is like covering for Sam Spade’s implausible story in “Maltese Falcon.”
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Sherlock: Hard-Boiled or Soft-Boiled?
Tuesday I share today an Alexis Hall essay I encountered in CrimeReads arguing that Sherlock Holmes is a hard-boiled detective. (Thanks to Literary Hub for the alert.) For those who study detective fiction, the thesis is startling because Holmes is generally grouped with the soft-boiled or puzzle-solving detectives, more like Dupin, Poirot, Miss Marple, Nero […]
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Will “The Fat Man” Sell Out Jared?
Sounding like a character in “The Maltese Falcon,” Rudy Giuliani declared that Jared Kushner is “disposable.”
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Is Bridget Kelly a Femme Fatale?
Christie’s Bridgegate scandal is beginning to look like “The Maltese Falcon.”
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Peyton Manning and the Maltese Falcon
“The Maltese Falcon” captures the existential absurdity of Peyton Manning in a Broncos’ uniform.
