On Sun Sep-30-2018 19:31, Mike Powell (1:2320/105) wrote to ROGER NELSON:   
      
      
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    MP> I actually mis-read it the first time and was guessing which one   
    MP> you WOULD watch.  LOL, I see my error now.  If I had to choose one   
    MP> of them, it would also be that one.   
      
   Good for you!  I just can't wrap my mind around a female playing a superhero   
   in that role because it doesn't fit in with the comic book creation.  Now we   
   have Supergirl on TV and it looks to be quite popular.  She is supposed to be   
   Superman's cousin, but I only watched the pilot episode.   
      
   >  MP> I am not sure they had trouble with the ending (other than it did   
   >  MP> not at all match what was in the book) but, at one point, they   
   >  MP> asked him who was responsible for one of the deaths in the book.   
   >  MP> He realized that he did not know!  It turned out not to be   
   >  MP> significant to the overall storyline and apparently remained   
   >  MP> unsolved when the book was completed.  :)   
      
   I believe I got my detectives and authors mixed up.  Dashiel Hammett created   
   Sam Spade and Raymonf Chandler created Philip Marlowe.  It is the latter that   
   they had trouble with on the ending and even called in the late writer Leigh   
   Brackett to help.  I think I have that right.  (-:   
      
    MP> The Maltese Falcon was a Sam Spade movie, and a Dashiel Hammett   
    MP> (sp?) book.  The Big Sleep was a Philip Marlowe movie, and a   
    MP> Raymond Chandler book.  I think they are easy to confuse because   
    MP> Bogart played both Sam and Phil. After seeing Bogart play Marlowe,   
    MP> Chandler supposedly thought he was the best one to have played him   
    MP> (even though he was not crazy about some of the story line   
    MP> changes).   
      
   I'm now remembering that the Marlowe stories were mainly in Florida (Miami   
   area, I think).   
      
    MP> Two of my favorite movies and books.  :)   
      
   Mine, too.   
      
   As an aside, we have another Captain to go and that's Captain Midnight, even   
   though he wasn't a superhero.  (-8   
      
   Did you know that Bogart was 44 when he met the 19 year old Bacall?  I never   
   thought that would work unless it was the other way around, but this was the   
   exception.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+ Trinidad Alvarado   
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