Comments On: What To Do With Your Afternoon? by Paul Constant

Re: What To Do With Your Afternoon?

salty purl — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:02:43 -0700

Tishimongo Blues was the first Leonard book I read, and remains my favorite as well.
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Re: What To Do With Your Afternoon?

Zil — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:52:27 -0700

I 100% agree - Out of Sight *was* a great movie. I liked it better than the book. Hollywood happy endings appeal to me - what can I say?
Posted by Zil

Re: What To Do With Your Afternoon?

idaho — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:24:01 -0700

And it wasn't J Lo in the tv series, thank god.
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Re: What To Do With Your Afternoon?

idaho — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:22:56 -0700

I LOVED Karen Sisco, a short-lived tv show based on the Leonard character played by J-Lo, a female US Marshall who always gets her man (see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364823/). God it was good! It turned me onto Elmore Leonard.

But of course audiences couldn't take a woman who brought down the bad guys, so the female US Marshall was re-invented as a chick who *helps* people and *protects* them in the Witness Protection Program in In Plain Sight.

What a load of crap.
Posted by idaho

Re: What To Do With Your Afternoon?

segal — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:32:55 -0700

@7
Holmes is from Northern Ireland. And I'm pretty sure he himself would admit that he's not a techno pioneer. Otherwise, spot-on comment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Holme…)
Posted by segal

Re: What To Do With Your Afternoon?

Geni — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:59:44 -0700

I enjoyed Out of Sight, but I do have to admit I kept wondering how much better it would have been with a more talented actress in that lead role. I don't dislike J.Lo., but she's not really that strong an actor.
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Re: What To Do With Your Afternoon?

PeterF — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:46:27 -0700

Out of Sight has a cool bit of crossover, via Michael Keaton as Ray Niccolette, with the movie version of Jackie Brown, speaking of cohesive film universes.
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Re: What To Do With Your Afternoon?

Fnarfs old balls — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:40:18 -0700

@1 no, it's just stranger suckup extraordinaire (tm) Matt "i give myself a middle name to try to be cool" Hickey who floods the inbox with his mindless dribble.
Posted by Fnarfs old balls

Re: What To Do With Your Afternoon?

Scottish Techno Pioneer goes Downtempo — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:33:45 -0700

Out of Sight soundtrack by David Holmes is fantastic.
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Re: What To Do With Your Afternoon?

biju — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:21:13 -0700

Hey Matt, I liked Out of Sight too. Nothing comes close to Get Shorty! though, talk about one underrated movie..

"Whatta you got there, a Wop 9? Fuckin' Fiat of guns, always jammin' on you at the wrong time. "
Posted by biju

Re: What To Do With Your Afternoon?

michael strangeways — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:17:16 -0700

hmmm....it's not just today, Paul...your co-workers are not pulling their weight.
Posted by michael strangeways

Re: What To Do With Your Afternoon?

Matt Fuckin' Hickey — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:51:05 -0700

I know I might catch hell for this, but I have to say this: Out of Sight is a terrific book, and the movie version is also fantastic. Sure, a few things were changed, but the wry sense of humor and shadowy, doomed romance are intact.

I know a lot of people hate Clooney (I don't) and/or Jennifer Lopez (I don't, really), but it's a really fun, smart movie that, sadly, almost nobody I know has seen. And if they have, it's because I made them.

Go rent it tonight.
Posted by Matt Fuckin' Hickey

Re: What To Do With Your Afternoon?

Paul Constant — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:48:31 -0700

@2: Agreed on the dialogue. He really hums. And Swag is probably my second most favorite of his.

@1: It's a deadline day, and I happen to have a lot of free time. Other Sloggers will return later today as the print edition nears completion.

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Re: What To Do With Your Afternoon?

Fnarf — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:42:21 -0700

Leonard writes the best dialog since George V. Higgins. Not just in genre fiction; anywhere. Pretty much everything he's written is worthwhile, though I still prefer the old Detroit ones, like "52 Pickup" and "Swag" to the more recent ones set in the freakshow of South Florida. He is every inch as great a literary treasure as John Updike or Saul Bellow.
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Re: What To Do With Your Afternoon?

michael strangeways — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:41:54 -0700

uh, does anyone other than Paul blog anymore? Paul's great, but lately every other post is one of his...the rest of the staff needs to wake up and get to work...
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