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Patrolling the mean streets and manicured lawns of Southern California, Raymond Chandler's tough, noble P.I. was a natural for Hollywood. He has been played by Robert and George Montgomery, by James Garner and James Caan, but Bogie did it best in Howard Hawks' 1946 version of a novel whose plot was so labyrinthine, even Chandler couldn't say who killed the chauffeur. There's also Bogie's Baby, Lauren Bacall, as the distressing damsel, and a trunkload of noir atmospherics...
...decent people. They go to work every day, they care about their families, maybe they give money to charity. Fine. I have no problem whatsoever with anybody in that group. But the people who are speaking for liberals in the world of politics, the chairman of the Democratic Party, Howard Dean; or the cultural liberals, like Michael Moore; the Hollywood elites who confuse intelligence with celebrity-they think because they?re famous, they?re also smart. I listen to them and I say, I don?t want to be part of that group anymore. Even when I agree with them...
...Somehow, I?m not amazed that Howard Stern is on your list...
...reason he?s on the list because he?s supposed to be a shock jock. Here?s the bad news: he doesn?t shock anybody anymore. Thanks to Howard...this kind of sludge just washes over us. And that?s the danger. That?s the serious part of the book. I?m not the Church Lady. I don?t care what people say in private; I don?t care what they do in private. But we?re talking about the public arena...
...files on the Watergate probe to the White House. That prompted Nixon adviser John Ehrlichman to suggest famously that Gray be left to "twist slowly, slowly in the wind." In April 1973, after conceding he had destroyed papers unrelated to the scandal but belonging to Watergate operative E. Howard Hunt, he was forced to resign...