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Terrence Rafferty

RAYMOND CHANDLER, the creator of the tough-but-honorable Los Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe, once wrote in a letter to a friend: “The private eye is admittedly an exaggeration – a fantasy. But at least he's an exaggeration of the possible.”
When Robert Altman made a movie of the novel Chandler considered his best, The Long Goodbye, Marlowe, played by Elliott. Gould, seemed at first glance almost unrecognizable as the character audiences had seen embodied by, among others, Humphrey Bogart, in Howard Hawks's Big Sleep (1946). [...]

di Terrence Rafferty, articolo completo (7278 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 15 aprile 2007