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[Fiona Shnapple]

Who would take a shot at her? Again, page and passage is helpful. Why
would anyone take a shot at Maxine? Something she said? Did? Or did
she walk on to a Law & Order set? Maybe she's just paranoid. Maybe
she's part of some grand delusional conspiracy of her own middle aged
paranoia and creeping boys of entry level adulthood she works with.
She is, after all, in that middle age stage that Otto Kugelblitz calls
the paranoid stage. And Reg and Eric are not quite grown ups.  Way
back in Ch 2 when we meet Reg Despard, the movie pirate, who tells us
he has a boy genius in IT working on the case, we discover that the
entire paranoid investigation springs from a film that Reg is
shooting, a documentary about a computer-security firm downtown called
hashslinggrz. Work is work. Right? Maybe not. So Reg just wants to
know who he's working for. Outfield and Despard creep Ice & Co.
through the system, but get locked out of the private vaults where,
well, the company, a security firm after all, locks up its private
doings. Though Maxine says she would prefer to kick back like Angela
Lansbury (Jessica Fletcher, Murder, She Wrote, English teacher,
Novelist, amateur investigator who one-ups the professionals), she
packs a gun, and Reg, well, he got the academic's attention with his
neo-Brechtian subversion of the diegesis, is not gonna settle for the
promotional documentary he's been hired to produce, he feels like Erin
Brockovitch.

Maybe these guys are looking for more violent scripts? Maybe it's a
pyramid scheme. Like, is Maxine working for reg now?

Maxine does still have that concealed-carry permit.

Kick back like Angela? Right.

Clearly, ''Murder, She Wrote'' does not dabble in MTV flashiness or
special effects. The basic form of the show predates broadcasting. The
standard ''mystery'' of literature and early films became a staple of
radio in 1930 with the introduction of a series featuring the exploits
of - who else? - Sherlock Holmes. The heyday of radio in the 30's,
40's and early 50's was crammed with mystery formats, from Nero Wolfe,
Sam Spade and Bulldog Drummond to ''Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost
Persons,'' ''The Shadow'' and ''Casey, Crime Photographer.'' And
television, of course, has been awash in mystery/suspense shows. In
the earlier years, there were ''Martin Kane, Private Eye,'' ''Alfred
Hitchcock Presents'' and such offbeat efforts as Blake Edwards's
''Peter Gunn,'' in which Craig Stevens hung out at an eccentric jazz
club named Mother's, and ''Richard Diamond, Private Eye,'' featuring
David Janssen with a mostly unseen secretary named Sam, whose legs
belonged to Mary Tyler Moore.


http://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/16/arts/tv-view-it-s-fun-and-it-s-not-violent.html

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
<thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> Er, for one, Maxine is being shot at?
>
> Am 25.11.2013 22:06, schrieb Fiona Shnapple:
>
>> And there safety is threatened by? Page and passage, please.
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