Re: Bye Bye, Life/Goodbye, Happiness/Hello Loneliness/I Think I'm Gonna Die

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>James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>Michael Alan Chary <mchary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>Michael Alan Chary <mchary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>	I also missed THE FRENCH CONNECTION and I think he was in that
>>>>>>as well. Also SORCEROR, whose ads looked interesting when I was a
teen.
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>>>>>It is interesting, but it's a remake of "The Wages of Fear."
>>>>>
>>>>>>	In the 1970s, we got to see one (1) film per year, so I missed
>>>>>>a lot of the great films of that decade and I have not yet caught
up. 
>>>>>
>>>>>Well, the top ten since I assume you've seen the famous classics,
like 
>>>>>Star Wars and Monty Python and the Holy Grail and The Rocky Horror
Picture 
>>>>>Show and Chinatown and The Godfather
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>>>>	CHINATOWN I saw because I saw a lot of movies in the 1980s 
>>>>and early 1990s and one of them was the TWO JAKES. That felt to me
>>>>like the inferior sequel to a good film, so I tracked down the 
>>>>original movies to see if I was right.
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>>>And your verdict?
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>>	I was right: the original is much better than the sequel.
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>I agree, as it happens. 
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>I might as well tell my only "The Two Jakes" story, because I can also 
>pay tribute to an old friend. 
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>I remember when "The Phantom Menace" came out. Our movie critic, Jim 
>Gordon, God rest his dsoul, was trying to think of a hook for his 
>reviewsaid to me "Hey, Mike, name another movie which had a sequel twenty

>years later. "I said "The Two Jakes." 

	You know what could have had a sequel but didn't?

	It's 1961, Sam Spade is 62 and Brigid O'Shaughnessy has just
been let out of the slammer. Before he handed her over in 1941, he 
said "if you get a good break, you'll be out in 20 years and you can
come back to me then." She's going to take him up on it.

	Unfortunately, while Mary Astor would have been available,
Bogart was dead by 1961. 

	Not that anyone ever suggested this but it could be an
interesting movie. 
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