Chandler & Hammett; learned accidently

[Rich Clavey]

JM Tyree and Ben Walters make a lot of those connections between The Big Lebowski and The Big Sleep in their BFI Film Classics essay. Very interesting reading...
Rich

--- On Sun, 8/23/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Chandler & Hammett; learned accidently
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Sunday, August 23, 2009, 9:01 PM
> Did you'all know that Chandler was
> born 6 years before Hammett
> but that Hammett's writing career was over before The Big
> Sleep,
> Chandler's first novel, was published? 
> 
> According to a citation--Coen Bros.' interview at Indie
> Wire-- on The Big Sleep wikipedia article, the Coens claim
> The Big Lebowski was "loosely' inspired by The Big
> Sleep!?...Fooled me, unless they are just foolin'...
> 
> And Chandler's response when asked by someone about doing a
> biography of
> him: "Who cares when the writer got his first
> bicycle?".....
> Think TRP would second that? 
> 
> 
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