>In the film _The Big Sleep_ Boragt's Philip Marlow pushes up his brim and dons >glasses to act like an ignorant but pushey (maybe also self-important, so an >easier mark for inaccurately labeled merchandise) customer, but the bookstore >he plays this part in supposedly sells RARE books, not pornography. While I >cannot cite the novel from my own reading, a commentary notes that in the novel >it is a pornographic bookstore that Marlow enters. Ah, the cleanliness of the >Production Code protected works! > >Kendall D'Andrade > ======== No problem here. The rare book store is a cover for the sale (or rental, if I recall correctly) of expensive pornography. That holds true in both film and book. --Richard J. Leskosky Richard J. Leskosky office phone: (217) 244-2704 Assistant Director FAX: (217) 244-2223 Unit for Cinema Studies University of Illinois ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]