by Larry Brody
NOTE FROM LB:
Time now for a tale of the Navajo Dog herself. Listening to her words in my mind the way I once listened to them with my ears always makes me happy…just as it always makes me cry.
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TVWriter™ Don’t-Miss Posts of the Week – March 6, 2017
Time for TVWriter™’s Monday look at our 5 most popular blog posts of the week ending yesterday. They are, in order:
The Return of the TV Anthology Series
Hey there, old-timers and millennials! Feeling deprived? Missing anthology shows like Twilight Zone, Playhouse 90, and all that other legendary top-quality TV?
Well, turns out that those TV and digital entertainment execs we all love so much are already in the saddle, riding to your – oh, hell, we mean our – rescue!
WGAW March 2017 Calendar
Because we loves hangin’ with the Pro Writer Pack:
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(That sort of makes sense, yeah?)
Dennis O’Neil: PI’s
by Dennis O’Neil
Now as I was young and easy and gentlemen still trod the Earth and politics still made sense (a little… sometimes) I held that private eye fiction was about righteous men who had the courage to be alone. I was, at the time, living by myself in a small Manhattan apartment and so I guess I was seeking identification with heroes (and maybe seeking an excuse for my isolation.) But I was, I now think, wrong.
Which fictional gumshoes did I have in mind? My two favorites were Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade and Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe and they were, indeed, solitary beings walking the mean streets seeking truth. And there were others sprinkled through the pop culture regions of pulp magazines, radio, B movies. (Comic books? Patience, please, we’ll get to them.)
If you’re looking for antecedents, cast a glance at the King Arthur stories. Arthur’s knights mostly roved without companionship on their quests for the holy grail or whatever. But they did have a whole posse of clanky buddies waiting for their return at that round table, not to mention the odd fair maiden.