Tag Archives: Peter Lorre

the secret agent: saving us by conspiracy

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Dave

The cult of the secret agent. In fact as in fiction the spy is the indispensable person of our time. Yet their activity poses a deadly threat to the open society… …One likes to think that the antifascist fanaticism that … Continue reading →

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secret agent: espionage no longer a game

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Dave

…The ideological conspirator role was not, of course, strictly new. A striking example from World War I was Sidney Reilly, the Russia-born SIS agent who after the Bolshevik revolution organized a series of insurrectionary plots against the new regime and … Continue reading →

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secret agent cult: lawless in the struggle

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Dave

…In fact as in fiction, the spy is the indispensable person of our time. Yet their activity poses a deadly threat to the open society… …In all secret service literature, fiction and nonfiction alike, there is an ambiguous and extremely … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Bennett screenwriter, Compton Mackenzie, E. Howard Hunt, Graham Greene, John Buchan, John Gielgud, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, Somerset Maugham | Leave a comment

fiddlers on hot tin roofs

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Dave

Under such circumstances the Jew, if he did not succumb to Christian pressure and seek conversion, felt both superior and inferior. He hugged his own traditions and pondered, elaborated, refined them in constant study and meditation. If to the outside … Continue reading →

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yuk yuk: cross your fingers not your legs…

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Dave

Is comedy universal? Brass knuckles interfaith hard ball comedy. The dilemma of comedy being “pure” without the baggage of tradition and history. The recent trip of Mark Breslin and Yuk Yuks on “goodwill” tour of Israel is proof is that … Continue reading →

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dial m for money

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Dave

and manipulation. A nice cozy complicity. How to understand Bob Diamond? Maybe he rose to his level of incompetence. Or, perhaps we can compare Diamond to what writer Jean Genet once said said about himself, that the only thing he … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, Bob Diamond Barclays, Ernst Ludwig Kirschner, Jean Genet, LIBOR scandal Barclays Bank, Marshall McCluhan, Patrick Jenkins Financial Times, Paul Tucker Bank of England, Paul Verlaine, Pecora Commission, Peter Lorre, Philip Augar | Leave a comment

the sinister and dreadful “yes”

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Vincent Price (1911-1993)! Erudite and eloquent, possessing a singular elocution that could make a three letter word like “yes” seem sinister and dreadful, or drip with lofty sarcasm. Yet with … Continue reading →

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flitcraft parables

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)! In this issue of the “Creative living for Tacoma” magazine—somewhat oddly, produced in Seattle—City Arts took a look at the period in Hammett’s life where … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Creative Living for tacoma Magazine, cushman institute hospital, Dashiell Hammett, Humphrey Bogart, jesse marinoff reyes, michael sean sullivan, Peter Lorre, peter lorre the maltese falcon, Pinkerton detectives, sam spade, samuel dashiell hammett, stan shaw, stan shaw illustrator, the flitcraft parable, the maltese falcon, victoria culver | Leave a comment

too long in exile: worn out welcome

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Dave

Brecht in exile. He wrote movie scripts and tried to sell them but, except for his scenario for Hangmen Also Die, Brecht sold nothing. He seems to have persistently missed the fact that a great many of the ideas he … Continue reading →

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cry him a river

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Dave

Varying degrees of madness. A creepy but vulnerable figure escaping his awkward urges with bloodhounds on his trail. It is an intangible sliver of hope. Peter Lorre gives pause for a reflection on the nature of evil, particularly who the … Continue reading →