@EmiliaLi1981 Cats are some of the best friends we will be lucky to have. They provide so much and ask for so little. They are wonderfully loyal.
All the best,
Bill
@EmiliaLi1981 Hi Emilia:
Thanks for writing. I am snowed today working on an important fraud complaint I am sending to the FBI's Washington office.
I'll be happy to respond to your kind letter tomorrow after I have finished this It is a bear to do with loads of details.
Caio,
Bill
@ryanjreilly At one time I would have been shocked but now it seems typical. We need to get our act together and fast. Remember Ben Franklin's words after the Constitutional Convention ended that America had a Republic "if you can keep it."
I am delighted that my definitive noir history from McFarland Publishing, PULP FICTION TO FILM NOIR, has now reached # 25 on the Amazon bestseller list in Movie Adaptations. Thanks for the support.
Alfred Hitchcock cited SHADOW OF A DOUBT as the most pleasant filming experience of all his works. It was a clever twist to have a misogynistic serial killer like Joe Cotten visit the friendly Santa Rosa. I cover Hitch's theme in HITCHCOCK AND THE METHODS OF SUSPENSE
The gigantic land grab engineered by John Huston in CHINATOWN that Jack Nicholson was determined to stop was based on a true life incident. That history is spelled out in detail in my film noir history work L.A. NOIR.
If you want to read about how profoundly the British Empire and the United States influenced the history of the Middle East my book STRUGGLE FOR THE HOLY LAND traces the long flow of events with plenty about Churchill and Lawrence of Arabia as well as FDR and Truman.
The Master Alfred Hitchcock unleashed his suitcase full of tricks on his fascinated public in his 1958 classic, VERTIGO. It is closely analyzed in my book HITCHCOCK AND THE METHODS OF SUSPENSE.
My work EARLY FILM NOIR includes a definitive analysis of the timeless RKO classic with an emphasis on Jane Greer's ingenious femme fatale role tormenting both Bob Mitchum and Kirk Douglas.
EARLY FILM NOIR is all about the origin of film noir with an emphasis on how John Huston penetrated new ground in cinema history with his classic THE MALTESE FALCON and Bogart's stellar performance.
There are many good biogs on Hitchcock. My work HITCHCOCK AND THE METHODS OF SUSPENSE covers the artistic methods of The Master and how they captivated film fans.
My non-fiction work PULP FICTION TO FILM NOIR is on the Amazon bestseller list for film adaptations. All about how the Great Depression launched film noir.