>Good for you!  I just can't wrap my mind around a female playing a superhero in
>that role because it doesn't fit in with the comic book creation.  Now we have
>Supergirl on TV and it looks to be quite popular.  She is supposed to be
>Superman's cousin, but I only watched the pilot episode.

I watched most of the first season and part of the second.  It started to
take on a theme that a lot of the other CW super hero shows have... being
politically correct... so I lost interest.

Superman actually made an appearance or two, I think.

IIRC, wasn't Supergirl actually a "real" character, and not one they made
up just for that TV show?

>I believe I got my detectives and authors mixed up.  Dashiel Hammett created
>Sam Spade and Raymonf Chandler created Philip Marlowe.  It is the latter that
>they had trouble with on the ending and even called in the late writer Leigh
>Brackett to help.  I think I have that right.  (-:

I think they did have to call in a second writer to help with the
screenplay.  I also am certain they had to call one in for a couple of
other movies (non-Marlowe) that he originally worked on... he did not get
on well with movie folk.

>I'm now remembering that the Marlowe stories were mainly in Florida (Miami
>area, I think).

Actually, Los Angeles and surrounding areas.  One or two strayed as far as
Palm Springs.

>Did you know that Bogart was 44 when he met the 19 year old Bacall?  I never
>thought that would work unless it was the other way around, but this was the
>exception.

I knew he was quite a bit older than her.  Normally, I would not think it
would work, either, but she was really into him.  Some jealous suitor
(maybe Howard Hawks) once said that he thought they fell in love with each
other's characters in "To Have and Have Not" and not actually with each
other.  If that is true, considering how well it worked, maybe it was not
such a bad thing!

Mike

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