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...Joanne Marie Hammett, 62, had a bad experience 50 years ago when she remembers running screaming through a swarm of cicadas and is now terrified of them....
...“There’s no ultraviolet light,” notes Hammett....
...Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett’s detective, was once judged not to be part of Warner Bros’ contractual rights to The Maltese Falcon....
...Every track here showcases their musical prowess, including co-founding drummer Lars Ulrich’s meticulous breakneck beats, Rob Trujillo’s hefty bass grooves and Kirk Hammett’s fiercely eloquent guitar solos...
...Think of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Josephine Tey, James M Cain, Richard Stark, Pascal Garnier — think of Georges Simenon! Let me make an essential distinction....
...Gran’s prose sits somewhere between the seediness of Charles Bukowski and the rattling pace of Dashiell Hammett (the elusive supernatural manuscript acts as a substitute Maltese falcon)....
...He made crime dramas from Dashiell Hammett and Ed McBain. Even his Indian summer as a film-maker was gifted by the west....
...The idea is vividly illustrated in The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 novel and John Huston’s 1941 film. Our hero, Sam Spade, knows the whereabouts of the falcon, a priceless artefact....
...Durton is the sarcastically named “dirt town” of the title, and as in Dashiell Hammett’s corrupt Personville/Poisonville in Red Harvest, the sprawling cast of culpable characters is as important as the unravelling...
...“There was a library there [and] he said, ‘You have to read Dashiell Hammett.’”...
...Writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Graham Greene, Orson Welles and James M....
...Hamlet shades into Dashiell Hammett, an American epic uniting high and low. Dylan’s verses roll by hypnotically....
...And Trujillo’s duet with guitarist Kirk Hammett on a version of “Killers” by Iron Maiden might have been expected to have brought roars of approval, rather than the shrugs that greeted it....
...integrated the Bay Area to the rest of California — in poetry (Robinson Jeffers, Gary Snyder), architecture (Julia Morgan), painting (Richard Diebenkorn), and film (The Maltese Falcon is one of Dashiell Hammett...
...In 2005 Rian Johnson premiered his Dashiell-Hammett-goes-to-high-school thriller Brick here; now he is curating the future of the Star Wars saga....
...Solo spots for bassist Rob Trujillo and guitarist Kirk Hammett were exactly as tedious as you might expect from people going widdly-woo on unaccompanied electric instruments....
...Beneath a photograph of Dashiell Hammett, looking down at us from the side of the booth, I ask for the Sam Spade lamb chops....
...“Everyone on the phone, just buy everything, buy everything, and we did,” says Mr Hammett....
...They are all names of a kind Dashiell Hammett might have recognised. But the writer would be bemused by the restaurant’s interior....
...gift for suspense (appropriate, perhaps, since Hammett was himself briefly a Pinkerton op)....
...Drawing on sources from Dashiell Hammett to Mel Brooks, he shows how dry-sounding theories of fiduciary responsibility, merger theory and leverage shed light on life and relationships, and vice versa....
...“I told Ridley I saw it as a Sam Spade/Dashiell Hammett film noir more than a futuristic film, and he liked that take on it,” says the costume designer, who is about to travel to London to work on the next...
...It’s obviously open to interpretation, but Hammett buries clues in those names....
...The sultans of noir — Mickey Spillane, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler — haunt this period, but over the years they have had to compete with a crowd of other muses....
...Works by John Dos Passos, Muriel Spark and Dashiell Hammett are also affected. According to Mr Cornella, publishers are often not even aware their books are compromised....
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