For a side job as a private eye, he channeled his Humphrey Bogart fandom and love of old film noir into a stint as a real-life private eye, his nephew said.
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He may have broken regulations by moonlighting as a private eye.
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Unlike many a smooth TV private eye, Mannix took his lumps.
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These guys try things the mythic private eye would get away with.
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Poe's main character, Auguste Dupin, is also a private eye in Paris.
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But that does not have to mean hiring an expensive private eye.
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That nice private eye, Cal Weaver, is back, as is Detective Barry Duckworth.
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He was accused of theft and fired in 1832, then became a private eye.
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Cormoran Strike has a more dramatic back story than your average television private eye.
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Swinson's more realistic private eye has a cocaine addiction, which is kind of refreshing.
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Staff at Private Eye cheerfully admit that they have no idea whether the section works.
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When I vet people who bring me tapes, I'm very much like a private eye.
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The New York Post reported that Jolie had hired "a private eye" to spy on them.
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So I wanted to inject that kind of awkwardness in reality into the private-eye story.
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It's the seductive drawl and lowdown dirty laugh of Walter Mosley's mellow private eye, Easy Rawlins.
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Janet Maslin reviews "Big Sky," Kate Atkinson's new novel featuring her beloved private eye, Jackson Brodie.
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Now she's also a private eye and a single mother who fought crime while visibly pregnant.
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Will McPhail is a cartoonist whose work regularly appears in The New Yorker and Private Eye.
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He fell silent, processing the error like a private eye assessing evidence at a crime scene.
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Because, ultimately, woman have babies every day, as Private Eye famously reminded us the first time around.
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Every fortnight in the back pages of Private Eye a middle-class begging bowl is passed around.
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All of them featured private eye Kinsey Millhone, a former police officer who was a quiet rebel.
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The suave private eye with a heart — and a mission — has endured for almost half a century.
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There he meets Kilmer's Perry, a private eye who Harry shadows to help prepare for his role.
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Always the private eye, he seems to never let Cragg out of his sight, yet never becomes intrusive.
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In particular, it tosses Noelle into a buddy-cop simulacrum with a private eye who takes her case.
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Always the private eye, he seems to never let Cragg out of his sight, yet never becomes intrusive.
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Booker became, almost instantly, a figure of open mockery among Republicans and more private eye-rollery from Democrats.
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So this dime-store chic that replaced this once-brilliant glamour, that seemed perfect for a private eye story.
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Intrigue follows when the ring is infiltrated by an American private eye (Glenn Corbett) representing one of the victims.
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In another, listeners followed a woman private eye who got her start investigating the murder of her college roommate.
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" The private eye heroine, she adds, "attacks both trivial and impossible questions with endearingly clearheaded ferocity and good humor.
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Here, Joaquin Phoenix plays a private eye searching for a missing girl in a hazy, half-remembered 1970s Los Angeles.
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In the world of Raymond Chandler's gritty whodunits, a tough but honorable private eye wanders a landscape of human depravity.
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For most of his life, Corbally's friends and associates assumed the transatlantic private eye had once been some sort of spy.
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As a rogue cop turned private eye, Raymond Burr is not just the personification of sleazy menace but a pitiful loser.
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The dramatic decision – after just two years of marriage – follows Jolie's hiring of "a private eye," reported the New York Post.
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" Her student piece mocking the übermocking editors of Private Eye earns her enfant-terrible status and the nickname "the buxom hackette.
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Mr. Pellicano, above, a notorious private eye for the stars, spent 15 years in prison for illegal wiretapping and other crimes.
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His career peaked when he played a private eye with Efrem Zimbalist Jr. on "21971 Sunset Strip" from 1958 to 1963.
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To get some tips on how to conduct my investigation, I called a real New York City private eye named Michael McKeever.
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Season 2 opens with Jessica back to work as a private eye, struggling to reconcile whether she's a hero or a killer.
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The show, starring Krysten Ritter as the failed superhero-turned-private-eye, is the second of four planned Marvel shows on Netflix.
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As the trailer makes clear, they'll be teaming up to find out what happened to Tim's missing cop-turned-private eye dad.
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Crime Sara Paretsky's prickly private eye, V. I. Warshawski, could make a good living if she'd stick to her specialty, corporate fraud.
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Ms. Schembri has been a private eye for more than 30 years, tracking down grifters, liars and cads from her Brooklyn base.
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One goes full-blown noir private eye silent film, while in another we learn of a secret tryst between Homer and the couch.
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"Men used to be men," the father laments, sounding like the private eye who's also unfamiliar with the concept of human-resources training.
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Gosling plays Holland March, a shambling widowed private eye who struggles with what seems to be a serious (if occasionally comical) drinking problem.
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A sadist who enjoys beating confessions out of suspects, Wilson is akin to Mike Hammer, the toughest private eye of early 1950s paperbacks.
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The private eye was close friends with Dr. Stephen Ward, the middle-aged osteopath who had set up Profumo and Keeler at the party.
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"He had everything to do with what happened," Scott Ross, a private eye who worked for the defense team, told NBC News of Blake.
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Joel Silver, the producer, and I have worked together since "Lethal Weapon," and gradually what we started to do was deconstruct the private eye.
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"Private Paris," the latest thriller in James Patterson's series about the global private eye Jack Morgan, enters our hardcover fiction list at No. 1.
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" QUIRKIEST SLEUTH: Charlie Parker, John Connolly's private eye, is chronically depressed, which makes him both endearing and unpredictable: "If there's trouble, he'll find it.
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For more than 30 years he's been editor of Private Eye, Britain's most prominent satirical magazine, which sells more than 230,000 copies each issue.
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And not only does she need her emotionally wounded private-eye ex-lover to help her find the child, she might just love him too.
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She has to be breathy and seductive, but is Eddie any less constrained by the expectations of the hard-bitten private eye role he's playing?
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The letter was immediately described as an intervention by "the luvvies," a satirical term borrowed from Private Eye magazine to describe Britain's self-enamored stars.
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"I really wanted to go back to my elders with this book — the private eye novels and writers that inspired me," Connelly said via email.
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And that's what David Swinson writes about in his streetwise private-eye novels featuring Frank Marr, a forcibly retired cop and mostly reformed cocaine addict.
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"Spenser was a cash cow," Parker's wife, Joan, told The Boston Globe in 2012, referring to her husband's most beloved character, a Boston private eye.
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The marriage ended in divorce, as did her marriages to Christopher Booker, a founder of the satirical weekly Private Eye, and the journalist Alexander Cockburn.
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The episode of the week for September 22 through 28 is "Forget It Dex, It's Stumptown," the pilot of ABC's new private-eye series Stumptown.
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Few shows work so well as lighthearted summertime watches as Rockford, which was TV super-producer Stephen J. Cannell's sardonic spin on the private eye genre.
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By the forties, violence and sexuality had been added to the plot, producing a new figure, the private eye, lonely but potent, intimate with criminal ways.
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"We long ago made a list of jobs we thought would be funniest for a baby monkey, and private eye always topped the list," Serlin says.
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A Private Eye investigation in 2015 identified £170 billion-worth of British property purchased through offshore vehicles in the last 10 years, with London the biggest hotspot.
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Wahlberg plays the iconic Spenser character, a private eye made famous in the Robert B. Parker novels and in the classic 80's show Spenser for Hire.
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"Once we decided that Baby Monkey was a private eye, we realized that giving him an office straight out of film noir was not enough," Serlin explains.
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The pun-laden story, told in the voice of a hard-boiled private eye (played, naturally, by the letter I), involves the attention-seeking number 6 (a.k.a.
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That is why the duo has commissioned Francis Wheen, from Private Eye, the satirical British news publication, to write a humorous column called This Week in Brexit.
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The movie followed Mars as she revisited her life as a private eye in order to help her ex-boyfriend, who has been accused of murdering his girlfriend.
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James Howard-Higgins, a private eye hired by Musk to dig into Unsworth, was also tasked with feeding information surreptitiously back to the press, the new documents indicate.
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Because of an editing error, the obituary also referred incorrectly to a scene from the novel "The Maltese Falcon" involving the private eye Sam Spade and his secretary.
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The Australian television producers Deb Cox and Fiona Eagger are the creators of the series "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries," about a female private eye in Jazz Age Melbourne.
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Once she begins filling her time with private-eye activities—spying on strangers, digging through documents, constructing conspiracy boards with red string—she discovers that she loves it.
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In addition to the 11 new emoji (above) Unicode is also adding both male and female versions of 33 existing emoji, like the private eye and the weight lifter.
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"His charming, bumbling buffoon image was neatly done and went down very well with audiences," said Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye magazine and a panelist on the show.
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A spokeswoman for Mr. Weinstein, Sallie Hofmeister, denied Mr. Weinstein had assigned a private eye to look into Mr. Carr when The Times asked her about it last month.
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Because of an editing error, the earlier version also referred incorrectly to a scene from the novel "The Maltese Falcon" involving the private eye Sam Spade and his secretary.
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In "The Feral Detective," a Manhattanite named Phoebe Siegler hires a private eye and searches the outskirts of Los Angeles and the Mojave Desert for a friend's runaway daughter.
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To that end, Diane has hired a private eye, who has compiled a portfolio of possible cars and descriptions of drivers in Évian, France, where the auto accident happened.
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Like such philosophically head-scratching aphorisms, these stories — part allegory, part myth, part magic realism, part Philip Marlowe, private eye — are sometimes confusing even to those who narrate them.
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Black has no interest in reinventing the buddy-cop movie, or even the '70s private-eye mystery; he's not trying to replicate what Paul Thomas Anderson did in Inherent Vice.
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The only one who outshines him is Craig as a colorful, and equally humorous, private eye who won&apost rest until he gets to the truth of Harlan&aposs death.
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It premiered in 2004, introducing the world to teen private eye Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) and her film noir-inflected adventures in the seedy and corrupt town of Neptune, California.
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There's a spoiled little girl in "Big Sky," the long-overdue fifth book in Kate Atkinson's irresistible Jackson Brodie private eye series, who has a closet full of princess costumes.
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SOFTEST HARD-BOILED PRIVATE EYE: That would be Isaiah (IQ) Quintabe, Joe Ide's brainy P.I. from Los Angeles, who is paid for his services in casseroles, cookies and reindeer sweaters.
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She: Zoe is an ex-New York cop, fed up with the corruption of the police force and now a successful private eye, not at all happy at being protected.
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Fired from the sheriff's office for supposedly leaking stories to a newspaper, he was hired in 22019 by a private eye to look into a notorious capital case in Louisiana.
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Brad Feuerhelm's Soft Touch is a book of vinyl stickers that looks more like a collage of missing persons, made either by a predator or by an amateur private eye.
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With his bleached wedge and half-worn zoot suit, he looked like a high-fashion private eye, crooning about lost loves and lust into sold-out baseball stadiums and continental hippodromes.
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With the aid of his loyal secretary and his private eye, the famed attorney invariably wrecked the prosecution's case with shrewd cross-examination, sometimes eliciting courtroom confessions by the real culprit.
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Given that this is Jessica Jones, expect a healthy dose of private-eye procedural investigation, fights in dimly lit hallways, and drinking, all heavily laced with Ritter's biting brand of sarcasm.
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This brought in $6,000, led to articles in places like Private Eye, the Atlantic and BuzzFeed, and won her time to turn her research into a two-book deal with Faber.
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In tabloid high jinks of yesteryear, a private eye might hope to get a snapshot outside a celebrity's bungalow, but he or she could hardly hope to get a "dick pic".
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The prosecution contended that she went to the gun shop, that same day, and bought bullets with stolen identification — bullets she used in the gun allegedly purchased from private eye Parco.
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If Hawking was right and the object was not a black hole, Thorne agreed to get him a four-year subscription to Private Eye (basically the British equivalent of The Onion).
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The private eye walked inside to join hundreds of other people, many of them children, waiting for the legendary Radio City Rockettes to take the stage and kick off the show.
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Mr. Kirkman and Eric Stephenson, the publisher of Image Comics, had already been after him and Mr. Martin to consider a print edition of The Private Eye, the syndicate's first project.
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Mr. Gosling is a nervous, struggling private eye and Mr. Crowe is a hired enforcer who switch from enemies to fellow investigators looking into the case of a missing young woman.
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To meet a real-life version of Chandler's private eye, drive 653 miles (60km) north from Houston to Conroe, a fast-growing Texan city strung along either side of Interstate 45.
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For the third time, a yakuza member has been found dead with his eyes gouged out, and lawyer-turned-private-eye Takayuki Yagami is trying to get to the bottom of it.
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The Mintz Group, a private eye firm, drew on its experience investigating corrupt officials around the globe to create a free app that allows users to experience the thrill of evading investigators.
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The film, due Friday, May 20, stars Mr. Crowe as a goon for hire and Mr. Gosling as a hard-drinking private eye who reluctantly team up to locate a missing woman.
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The two men have a past together, when the gangster hired Mitchum's then-private eye to track down his diabolical mistress (Jane Greer), who split to Acapulco with $40,000 of his money.
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When no-good Mickey Martin turns up dead on Charlie's front sidewalk, the retired (and unlicensed) private eye has to sneak around Lt. Frank Hutchins of the Saratoga Police Department to investigate.
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Officers on that case included Bruce Correll, who later advised the best-selling mystery novelist Sue Grafton as she sent her character, private eye Kinsey Millhone, tromping across "Santa Teresa" to solve crimes.
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Crosetti on Homicide: Life on the Street and the aforementioned gangster in Miller's Crossing — as well as roles that fell somewhere in between, like the private eye Da Fino in The Big Lebowski.
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Mr. Vaughan and Mr. Martin allowed a hardcover edition of The Private Eye, which was published by Image in December, and they were given the green light to produce a Walking Dead story.
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The Southern California setting and the shaggy-dog private-eye plot may remind you of Paul Thomas Anderson's "Inherent Vice," though "The Nice Guys" lacks that movie's wistful, slyly political sense of history.
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The sci-fi adventure "Emergence" and the private-eye drama "Stumptown" emerged, along with CBS's "Evil," as the most entertaining and emotionally engaging shows the Big 5 networks came up with last fall.
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Not only did she use her private eye skills to secure Hiram's release from prison, but she also appears to be sticking around now that he has announced that he's running for mayor.
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A passing reference to a Private Eye cartoon of Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home situates the crucial action of the novel in the years 1963-64, a fateful era in Britain's own cultural upheavals.
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To many defense lawyers, Joseph P. Dwyer, a retired New York police officer who became a private eye, was guided by justice — a highly sought investigator who uncovered key information to help their clients.
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So what you're really getting are my choices for: Best Rural Mystery Set in Mississippi, Best Mystery Featuring a Drug-Addicted Private Eye, Best Historical Mystery Set in the 14th Century and so on.
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This animated series changes networks and shifts gears as our private eye, Sterling Archer (the voice of H. Jon Benjamin), begins the eighth season where he left off: face down in a swimming pool.
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Two captains — Ian Hislop, the much-feared editor of Private Eye, a satirical magazine, and Paul Merton, a comedian — are joined by star guests, often politicians, to joke and answer questions about the week's news.
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The Palace was reportedly similarly displeased after the Supreme Court ruled that Johnson had asked the Queen to illegally suspend parliament, with Private Eye reporting that she had expected Johnson to announce his resignation afterwards.
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The complaint claims that in 2013, Shari Redstone hired a private eye to snoop on Holland in hopes of discovering "damning" information about her that would cause her father "to exile" Holland from his life.
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Further solidifying that everything will get rebooted eventually, Deadline is reporting that Netflix is working on a prequel series to Chinatown, Roman Polanski's 1974 movie about a private eye on the tail of an adulterer.
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In an interview with Private Eye , he described a moment when the French police were ordered to destroy the silk-screening machines that students at the École des Beaux-Arts were using to produce posters.
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In the game, Detective Pikachu is a salty-seeming private eye (the titles bill him as "cocky, chatty, lovable") who scampers around the city solving mysteries with a milquetoast-looking human companion, a boy named Tim.
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Without feeling like a paint-by-numbers kit, "Defenders" maintains the essence of the misanthropic private eye, Jones; the haunted blind vigilante, Daredevil; the bulletproof Harlem mensch, Cage; and the hippy-dippy martial artist, Iron Fist.
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Anyone who suffered through Crowe's unfortunate recent turn on Saturday Night Live might be worried—the Oscar-winner was awfully stiff—but thankfully he seems to be the badass straight man opposite Gosling's more temperamental private eye.
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But the possibility of pitting the private eye Jake Gittes against pure evil, in the form of the smiling, all-powerful mogul Noah Cross (who would be played by John Huston) held a certain appeal for Polanski.
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But in 1973, when Lisa Sandlin's irresistible mystery THE BIRD BOYS (Cinco Puntos, paper, $16.95) is set, it's a place where a newly minted private eye like Tom Phelan shouldn't expect to get many high-profile assignments.
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Her alphabetically titled mysteries about the private eye Kinsey Millhone spent something like 400 weeks on the lists over all, and 133 of those books (beginning with "L Is for Lawless," in 1995) entered at No. 1.
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You play as Carl, a private eye who likes to talk to himself (in third person, with a wonderfully campy affectation) who travels to a tiny town in Northern Quebec at the request of a rich weirdo.
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The 72-year-old, best known for playing sultry private eye Kelly Garrett in the hit '70s series "Charlie's Angels," broke down in tears just remembering her life in the Lone Star state before finding fame in Hollywood.
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Rebel is more of a slam-bang private-eye action series, with Danielle Moné Truitt playing an ex-soldier named Rebel who leaves the Oakland police force and becomes a detective after a fellow cop kills her brother.
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So when a college acquaintance goes missing, Dory seizes on the chance to track her down, private eye style, like it's a lifeline not just for the missing woman, the hilariously named Chantal Witherbottom, but for Dory herself.
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Philip Kerr, a Scottish-born writer whose popular novels feature a Nazi-era detective named Bernie Gunther, whose hard-boiled style made him literary kin to Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler's classic private eye, died on Friday in London.
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A hard-drinking private eye who has been physically and emotionally assaulted by a powerful man, Jessica (Krysten Ritter) harnessed her superhuman strength in Season 1 to exact vengeance and protect others from her depraved, mind-controlling abuser.
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Harmony is a devotee of a pulp private eye named Jonny Gossamer, and the skein of criminality and double-dealing that she, Perry and Harry unravel is meant to resemble one of the novels in which Gossamer appears.
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"Second Sister," in Tiang's colloquial translation from the original Chinese, reads more like a mainstream mystery than a noir until we meet N, the enigmatic hacker Nga-Yee hires when her conventional private eye can't hack the job.
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Cal Weaver, the low-key private eye last seen in Barclay's "Promise Falls" trilogy, has been tasked with protecting 18-year-old Jeremy Pilford from the nameless and faceless internet mob that would like to see him dead.
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Crime Lisa Sandlin's irresistible mystery THE BIRD BOYS (Cinco Puntos, paper, $9) is set in 1973 in Beaumont, a bustling city on the Texas Gulf Coast where a freshly minted private eye has just hung out his shingle.
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And in a fall TV season that's filled with surprisingly solid new shows, there's no network pilot that does as good a job at working within those restrictions as Stumptown, ABC's new private-eye show starring Cobie Smulders.
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And to understand Los Angeles from all angles, see it through the eyes of an early-203th-century private eye (Chinatown), a late-20th-century wannabe actor (Swingers), and Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold (City of Gold).
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Titled "I object: Ian Hislop's search for dissent", the exhibition, which opens on September 6th, has been co-curated by Mr Hislop (pictured, below), a fixture on BBC panel shows and editor of Private Eye, a British satirical magazine.
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They also determined that Corbally was already under surveillance: Although the name of the entity keeping watch on the private eye has been blacked out in FBI documents, it is likely a reference to French intelligence or law enforcement.
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Ketzel's brother Potsie lives in Las Vegas, and that's where her parents send her to look for him with the help of Ebby, an old high school crush who has conveniently left the L.V.P.D. to become a private eye.
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A good private eye, she added, should possess a dogged fastidiousness and a well-honed sense for when a story does not add up — both traits that come in handy when separating the shiny cyber facade from the truth.
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Thomas Lauth, an Indianapolis-based private eye, said the Amber Alert for Closs may not have helped because authorities didn't have, or at least had not released, any information about what type of car or truck to look out for.
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Joe King Oliver, a New York private eye who makes his debut in Walter Mosley's new crime novel, DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA (Mulholland/Little, Brown, $27), went into prison with a love of classic jazz masters like Fats Waller.
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In BABY MONKEY, PRIVATE EYE (Scholastic, $16.99, ages 4 to 8), Brian Selznick and David Serlin explore a format similar to Selznick's groundbreaking novels like "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" and "Wonderstruck," which played with the interaction of words and pictures.
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Max Irons plays the young private eye Charles Hayward, who gets a visit in his dingy office from the beautiful Sophia (Stefanie Martini), an old love whose grandfather, an unpopular tycoon, has shuffled off this mortal coil under unusual circumstances.
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Hunkin cites the content of Private Eye as being a significant influencer, but there's as much of the spirit of Beano and the anarchic joy of Viz in the air at Novelty Automation, which is palpable as customers squeal and gasp.
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Dennis Dugan—I would be remiss if I did not his mention turn as the title character in the short-lived Rockford Files spinoff Richie Brockelman, Private Eye—directed Happy Gilmore and many of the other, sadder Gilmore-esque movies in Sandler's career.
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As Wolf descends into the seedier depths of London in search of Isabella's sister, displaced Nazis of every guise turn up, reminding the private eye of his former power and how far he and his comrades have fallen from their glory days.
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Like a wits'-end Faye Dunaway, coming to see a private eye to help get her out of trouble, I was in the midst of a somewhat—not to put too fine a point on it—bleak period in my career and marriage.
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In their new comedy thriller The Nice Guys, Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling play a hired enforcer (Crowe) and a struggling private eye (Gosling) who are forced to work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the death of a porn star.
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Private Eye briefly highlighted Grey Heron in a recent report, mentioning, as well as the Rabe link, that the firm is based in Milan and may be linked to another company of the same name in the UK run by a former British army officer.
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"Jack Irish" isn't unserious — there are grisly deaths and beatings, and the incident in the first movie, "Bad Debts" (2012), that threw the high-flying lawyer Irish off the rails and into a life as a bagman and part-time private eye was unusually savage.
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On Friday, the private eye who intimately knew Hollywood's underbelly — and, some would say, was its leading man — walked out of a Los Angeles federal prison at the end of his sentence and was free for the first time in more than 19903 years.
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That's always been the case, but around 2008—with the release of web series like B.J. Fletcher: Private Eye, Anyone But Me, and 3Way—it seemed to finally click that we could expect to find this content online, and that we could expect it to be good.
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On the other hand: A big part of the Veronica Mars appeal was that she was a hard-boiled neo-noir private eye who was also a teenage girl, and now that she's no longer a teenager, the balance of the show will have to shift.
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Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy), a powerful Meth, creates his own private eye by reviving the stack of a long dead Japanese-Slavic super-soldier, Takeshi Kovacs (Will Yun Lee), and putting it in the cybernetically enhanced, cryogenically preserved body of a recently dead Nordic policeman (Joel Kinnaman).
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But the dispute has spurred further analysis of "Sir," as it is still used for letters to the editor in The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Spectator and Private Eye, but has been dropped by The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Economist and The Financial Times.
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But Marr is a willing slave to cocaine, so here he is, a lackadaisical private eye in David Swinson's CRIME SONG (Mulholland/Little, Brown, $26), trying to keep his coke edge while investigating the murder of his cousin, a nice kid who happened to be dealing drugs.
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The other is Holland March (Ryan Gosling, demonstrating a knack for physical comedy and squeaky-voiced panic), a hard-drinking, chain-smoking private eye with a 13-year-old daughter (Angourie Rice) to look after—although it would be more accurate to say that she looks after him.
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He played a gangster in "Miller's Crossing" (1990), a beaten-down studio employee in "Barton Fink" (1991), a demanding executive in "The Hudsucker Proxy" (1994), a private eye confronted by Jeff Bridges in "The Big Lebowski" (1998) and a corrupt businessman in "The Man Who Wasn't There" (2001).
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Crime They may look like soul brothers, but Joe King Oliver, a New York private eye who makes his first appearance in Walter Mosley's new crime novel, DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA (Mulholland/Little, Brown, $27), parts company with the author's previous detectives, Easy Rawlins and Leonid McGill.
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Then it jumps ahead two years to find Detective Bill Hodges (Brendan Gleeson), taunted out of retirement and into private-eye mode by the killer behind the case he never solved: the deranged Brady Hartsfield (Harry Treadaway), a computer technician and ice cream truck man with a terribly sad childhood.
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This neo-noir buddy picture about a thief posing as an actor (Robert Downey Jr.) who joins forces with a private eye (Val Kilmer) on a murder case is Yuletide fun for smart-alecks, but not for A.O. Scott: I don't think "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" is an altogether bad movie.
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With a terrific cast of three, it cuts between the detective-movie world of the private eye Burke Sloane (Dana Watkins) — where femmes fatales are plentiful and clever wordplay is the native tongue — and the more pedestrian life of Rob Marlowe (also Mr. Watkins), a film professor whose marriage is giving out.
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Espionage and private-eye novels, because some of the most distinguished authors in the genre have worked in those areas: John le Carré, Charles McCarry, Eric Ambler, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald, all of whom have the inventiveness, voice and depth to rank with the best authors of the 20th century.
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BUSADEE SANTIPITAKSSpokespersonMinistry of Foreign AffairsBangkok Surely the all-time winner of tabloid-reader-grabbing headline-writing (Johnson, August 26th), had to be the late News of the World in the 1970s for its highly informative banner (quickly picked up by Private Eye, inevitably): "Nudist Welfare Man's Wife Falls in Love with Chinese Hypnotist from Co-op Bacon Factory".
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The podcast features one-off anthology-style stories ranging from gothic thrillers to Wild West heists; but interwoven between them is the ongoing fantasy-noir story of Juno Steel, a world-weary private eye who lives on Mars and winds up frequently saving the universe — all while trying not to lose his heart to a wily cat thief.
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The downed U.S. Air Force pilot who joins up with the ragtag Wolverine resistance against Communist invaders in 1984's Red Dawn; the father searching the Amazon for his lost child in 1985's The Emerald Forest; and he stepped into Humphrey Bogart's fedora as Raymond Chandler's iconic detective for the 1983-86 HBO series Philip Marlowe, Private Eye.
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After a brief run of trying things that weren't in his wheelhouse (including a musical and several straight rom-coms), Reynolds turned to television, first providing the voice of an alien for the fantasy comedy Out of This World (which somehow ran four years) and then starring as a private eye on the one-season series B.L. Stryker.
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But this David E. Kelley-Jack Bender series retains that King shiver with Brendan Gleeson as Detective Bill Hodges, taunted out of retirement and into private-eye mode by the killer behind the case he never solved: the deranged Brady Hartsfield (Harry Treadaway), a computer technician and ice cream truck man whose mother (Kelly Lynch) loves him inappropriately.
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But the work of investigative journalists and whistle-blowers around the world, from David Cay Johnston at the New York Times, to Nick Shaxson (the author of Treasure Islands), to Richard Brooks at Private Eye, and the whole team at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and their partners, as well as many others, have changed how the public views the offshore world.
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Also this week: a selection of the best stories by postmodernist pioneer Robert Coover; a remarkably readable and respectful book about the abortion debate; a novel about a 217-year-old man suffering a midlife crisis; a history of how Christianity became the dominant religion of the Roman Empire; a new private eye introduced by Walter Mosley; and two standout works of historical fiction.
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Back to the Future, no doubt, presented its share of special effects challenges, but it was nothing compared to integrating Richard Williams' remarkable animation — filled with both new creations and cameos from famous characters like Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck — with live-action footage in which private eye Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) teams up with Toon star Roger Rabbit (voiced by Charles Fleischer), trying to clear his name.
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The tricky plot is plenty funny and packed with colorful characters like Stinky Tetweiler, a high-end fence; Louie the Lost, who couldn't make it as a getaway driver; and Tasha Dawn, who isn't a zombie private eye but played one on TV. The best scene, though, is the one in which Bender breaks into the King's mansion ("like Xanadu in 'Citizen Kane' ") and finds himself unable to break out.
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Its creator and showrunner, Melissa Rosenberg of the "Twilight" movies, focused tightly on Jones (Krysten Ritter), a moody private eye who had super strength forced on her as a child, and a few other female characters: Trish Walker (Rachael Taylor), a talk-radio host who is Jones's only friend, and Jeri Hogarth (Carrie-Anne Moss), a ruthless lawyer who helps Jones when it aligns with her own agenda.
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As the lakes full of goo and oil that ten thousand years ago had swallowed woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers whole bubbled beside them, and oblivious tourists walked into and out of the adjacent museum, Owen Hanson posed with a lucha libre mask, a shovel, and expensive jeans for a picture shot by a senior-citizen private eye to be edited into a photo of a vandalized grave and mailed to a man called Robin Hood.
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He played Molly Ringwald's underemployed father in the teenage romance "Pretty in Pink" (903), the apostle Paul in Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ" (290), a private eye in David Lynch's "Wild at Heart" (21996), a judge in Terry Gilliam's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (21986), the hero's ailing brother in Mr. Lynch's "The Straight Story" (1999), a veteran inmate cheerfully testing the electrocution equipment in "The Green Mile" (1999) and Charlie Sheen's father in "The Big Bounce" (2004).
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In FALLOUT (Morrow/HarperCollins, $27.99), her Chicago private eye, V. I. Warshawski, goes on a solo road trip to Kansas (where Paretsky was born and raised) with her dog, Peppy, for company and her red Bruno Magli pumps, just in case a tornado carries her off to the land of Oz. The premise for getting V. I. on the road is thin, but serviceable: An elderly black actress named Emerald Ferring and the young videographer she hired to film a documentary about her life have gone off the map somewhere en route to her childhood home.
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