I'm so looking forward to watching the film that I'm sort of sneaking up on it by watching all the DVD extras first. And there's a short documentary called \"Rip van Marlowe\" which is all about how this version of Phillip Marlowe is like a detective from the 1940s who went to sleep for twenty years and then woke up in LA in the early 1970s (which is only sort of true, as I talked about in my review<\/a>).<\/p>\n And this made me think, for the very first time, about another detective who appears to be from another era, who dresses in a very old-fashioned manner (and who also never removes her tie), and who always acts in accordance with her own ideas of what's right.<\/p>\n Was The Long Goodbye<\/em> some sort of influence on Jan Sleet<\/a>? It's quite possible, but who knows? This is why it's always hard to answer the question of where a writer's ideas (or anybody's really) come from.<\/p>\n Completely solving that<\/em> mystery would be beyond even Jan Sleet or Phillip Marlowe.<\/p>\n So, where do your ideas come from? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n (I also talked about this question in an earlier post called, \"Excelsior, You Fatheads<\/a>.\")<\/p>\n I wonder. I just rented The Long Goodbye. It’s one of my favorite films, and it would certainly be near the top of my list of favorite Robert Altman films (if I bothered to keep such a list). I’m so looking forward to watching the film that I’m sort of sneaking up on it by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3599,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions\/3599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"image_pdf\"](\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" "\\"View")
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