The Big Fix (1978)

[David Kipen]

Never fails. I send a brief, informative post, and what do I hear back? Crickets. Anyway, you're dead right, John. Moses Wine, played by shortish, blondish Richard Dreyfuss, is the hero of The Big Fix. Has no one seen this lost classic?

Enjoy,
David

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of David Kipen
Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 1:52 PM
To: Doug Millison; Pynchon-L
Subject: RE: other stoned detectives? Re: finished IV...

I'm here for you, John! Not sure about stoned all the way through, but for my money IV recalls a decent book and even better movie every bit as much as much as it does Chandler, Macdonald or Cain: Roger Simon's The Big Fix. Know it? The monologue at the end from a young F. Murray Abraham stacks up favorably in memory against anything in The Big Lebowski...


All finest,

David Kipen
Literature Director, National Reading Initiatives
Blog: www.arts.gov/bigreadblog
National Endowment for the Arts
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P.S. Do me a favor and please get into the habit of sending, or at least cc:ing, your emails to me at kipend at gmail.com. Sorry about this, and thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Doug Millison
Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 1:37 PM
To: Pynchon-L
Subject: other stoned detectives? Re: finished IV...

Any other examples in the genre, of a detective who's under the
influence of marijuana all the way through the novel as seems to be
the case with Doc?