Is Marlowe a Racist (or even homophobic)?

[Dave Monroe]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:52 PM, John Carvill<johncarvill at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not the clip I wanted, but, once found, hard to resist - here's Bogart
> 'getting wet' with Dorothy Malone:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2BU8-7kQLI
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozEZsZhnjbM&NR=1

Then there’s the girl at the Acme bookshop, the 20-year-old Dorothy
Malone, who knows bibiliography, has the instinct to close for the
afternoon, and who is, shall we say, obliging enough to slip off her
glasses and put down her hair. ‘We just did it,’ reminisced Hawks,
‘because the girl was so damn good-looking.’

http://www.noiroftheweek.com/2005/10/big-sleep-1946-101005.html