other stoned detectives? Re: finished IV...

[Dave Monroe]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:52 PM, David Kipen<kipend at arts.gov> wrote:

> 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...

Roger L. Simon

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_L._Simon
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/leigh200406030851.asp

Roger L. Simon, The Big Fix (1974)

Who Killed the Sixties-Or Was it a Suicide?

Moses Wine thought he had put his interest in politics far behind him
when he became a Los Angeles-based private detective. Sure, he'd once
been an activist, but that had been during the Sixties. A lifetime
ago?or so it seemed, before Lila Shea showed up on his doorstep. Lila
was a woman who could have been the love of his life?had they remained
together after their last night of passion in 1967. Nevertheless,
she's back, and her political views are as strong as they were when
Moses last saw her.

Before he knows it, Moses finds himself at the campaign headquarters
of Senator Miles Hawthorne. .

The job Hawthorne offers seems simple: Locate Howard Eppis, chairman
of the Free Amerika Party, and convince him to end the smear campaign
he's been waging against the senator during his bid for presidency.

But then Lila turns up dead, and suddenly politics are the last thing
on Moses' mind?...

http://ebook30.com/novel/novel/95284/the-big-fix-a-moses-wine-mystery.html

Moses Wine thought he had put his interest in politics far behind him
when he became a Los Angeles-based private detective. Sure, he'd once
been an activist, but that had been during the Sixties. A lifetime
ago...or so it seemed, before Lila Shea showed up on his doorstep.
Lila was a woman who could have been the love of his life...had they
remained together after their last night of passion in 1967.
Nevertheless, she's back, and with a job for him; locate the chairman
of the Free Amerika Party and convince him to end the smear campaign
he's waged against her employer, Senator Miles Hawthorne, who's
running for the presidency. But when Lila later turns up dead,
politics become the last thing on Moses' mind...

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/roger-l-simon/big-fix.htm

Back in 1973, when Roger Simon first introduced MOSES WINE in The Big
Fix, just the fact that his laidback Los Angeles-based private eye was
Jewish or smoked pot was more than enough to shake up the genre....

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/wine.html

The Big Fix (1978)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077233/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Fix

This film is the last entry in director Jeremy Paul Kagan's trilogy
about the aftermath of the 1960s and 1970s malaise after a
particularly volatile historical period. The other two in the trilogy
were _Katherine (1975)_ and Heroes (1977).

Mandy Patinkin's movie debut.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077233/trivia

Moses Wine: Bakunin? Bakunin was a terrorist monster. You are not an
authority on Bakunin just because you used to date every terrorist in
Soviet Russia, that does not make you an authority.
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Eppis: Do you know why being a revolutionary doesn't work in this
country? Being a revolutionary in America is like being a spoil sport
at an orgy. All these goodies being passed around and you feel like a
shit when you say no.

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077233/quotes

Okay, thanks, very good, will get copies of both ...