Welcome to a hard-boiled and not without noir blog with news and reviews, occasional outbursts of maniacal Autograph Hound activity, plus archival records from the forty-five year run of The Dashiell Hammett Tour. 
The Dashiell Hammett Tour
1977-2022
Arkham House Ephemera
The Classic Years 1937–1973
Death Lit
Essays and Reviews Selected from Fifty Years of Writing 1974–2024
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Tag Archives: Jimi Hendrix
Tour: Late for Oscar
Viewership for the Oscar ceremonies dropped way down this year, according to news on the net — a trend I got in on. People had requested a Hammett tour for the 22nd, so I gumshoed up and hit the mean streets for a … Continue reading
Posted in Film, News, Tour
Tagged Aliens, Andre 3000, J. Jonah Jameson, J. K. Simmons, Jimi Hendrix, Michael Biehn, Oscar
Sinister Cinema: You’re Making the Movie Anyway?
After John Ridley won an Oscar a few weeks ago, I happened to surf into a post covering his activities — lured in by a tagline about a “feud” he had or was having with 12 Years a Slave director Steve … Continue reading
Posted in Film, News
Tagged Andre 3000, Dave Van Ronk, Dennis Quaid, Inside Llewyn Davis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimi Hendrix, Joel & Ethan Coen, John Ridley, Oscar, R.J. Mischo, Steve McQueen (Brit), The Doors
