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DON HUTCHISON
THE MAILBAG: The indefatigable Michael Avallone writes:
"Don Miller's HOLLYWOOD CORRAL is one of the most awesome, thoroughly researched and plain bestwritten tomes I've ever read on any subject, Despite some lamentable typos which really are mostly trivial, the entire project ought to get some kind of award and though I'm notorious for battling with Critics, this is one Expert who lassoes his subject, loves it, and communicates that love with a vengeance, Double Bravos and a hoot and a holler all the way to Lordsburg
"On the other side of the coin, Pete Harris' About-To-GoOverboard verdict on Joe Gores" HAMMETT: You need some salt for the Black Bird's tale to see this ‘novel' in proper perspective and only the future will take care of that. Hammett is not an ancientenough figure for any novelist who didn't know him to get inside his mind and his mystique and movie him around as the main character in a work of fiction. That's all I have to say and Lillian Hellman would say a helluva lot more if anybody would pin her down, A claque has been working on the coasts, East and West, to elevate this book to Classic status and countme-out,
"Let me put it this way.
"I'll do a New York thriller, make Rex Stout or Raymond Chandler the central figure to solve a crime and, well--the purists would howl just as loud. "
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At the risk of puffing up a fellow columnist I have to echo Mike's assessment of Don Miller's book; it's really great-and still available, for those who have yet to read it,
An even more interesting work is Don's other book, "B" MOVIES, published by Curtis and now out of print, Don is unaware of this (until now) but back in 1973 when his B movie book was published, it received a terrific amount of praise from Robert Bloch, (For the two or three people in the civilized world who haven't heard of Bloch, he was the original author of Psycho, as well as being one of the world's great movie nuts, ) At that time Bob had just read Don's book and even though he was unaware that I had any connection with Don, he said that he regarded it as being one of the most enjoyable books ever written about movies-and proceeded to talk about it for some time.
The only trouble with "B" MOVIES is that it should have been published in the same large-size quality format as HOLLYWOOD CORRAL. My little sof tcover original is becoming tattered from constant reference,
Hey, Don--why don't you sell a publisher on the idea of putting out a new, deluxe edition?
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