>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
>
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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
 
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